Re: Clipper game

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

Man do I agree about the refs. I see a fair share of calls on both sides
each game. I don't believe the refs have an agenda. It may be easier for
fans to blame refs for losses. If it make's em feel better so be it. There
is a tooth fairy also.

DanF
----- Original Message -----
From: <Douglas342@AOL.com>
To: <Celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 9:23 PM
Subject: Clipper game


>      Well, it wasn't real comfortable being a Celtics fan today.  When the
> team scores NINE points in the first quarter, and when VP is the leading
> scorer at that point, and when the Clippers appear to be hitting about
102%
> of their shots, it looks pretty gloomy.  But some good D, a few timely 3s
by
> Pierce and the Celtics came back from 17 down (may have been 19) to within
3
> at the half.  After the lead see-sawed for a while, the Clips again opened
it
> to ten before the Cs whittled it back down and managed a tie in
regulation.
> In OT, consecutive 3s by EW and Walker iced it for the good guys.
>     Other notes from the sold-out (!!) Staples Center:  Kedrick Brown got
7
> minutes, but it seemed like we saw more of him than of Johnson ...
Anderson
> played 45 minutes ... for a long time, Obie went with both Anderson and
> Strickland; can Kenny keep this ironman stuff up?  He and Jeff McGinnis
> appeared to have a yapfest going on throughout the game...  it was nice to
> meet listmember Hank at halftime and again after the game ... we
reminisced
> about our years (his 20, my 30) in Cambridge ... Kedrick and Milt Palacio
> both look like they're 15 ...  Antoine Walker is BIG - not Mailman
category
> yet, but one large gentleman ...  After the game, Pierce went over to the
> Clipper bench and greeted several players.
>   Can they do this again in Sacramento?  Well, not if Kenny has to play 45
> minutes and if they score 9 in the first quarter!
>    And I'm tired of listening to fans (ours and theirs) kvetch about the
> refs.  I have no idea how they manage to make calls amidst ten antomical
> giants moving in a small space.   They do the best they can and, if anyone
> here read the NY Times story a year or so back, they work hard at it.  Do
> they get every call?  Nope.  The refs are part of the game.  Want to take
the
> refs out of it?  Score 20 more points than the other team.
>  - Doug