Re: Antoine's game vs. Minnesota

["Anne Cankosyan" <bceltics@mindspring.com>]

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From: Rohan Prashad <rprasha@CLEMSON.EDU>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>

> I don't think Antoine deserves much credit for this game despite the fact
> that he had a triple double. If there is such a thing as having a "poor
> triple double" this was it.

        No, there's no such thing as a "poor triple double".  Did you ever
see Larry Bird having a bad shooting night, but still have a triple double?
Did everyone bash him?  I don't think so!    Walker works his damn butt off.
Did you see him slack during the game?

Sure, he was tired from flying in from Chicago
> that morning, but then he shouldn't have been shooting as much, especially
> when he saw he wasn't hitting. When he was 1-11 at the half that should
> have been his cue to start rotating the ball when kicked out to him, or
> probably well before that point.

The best way out of a shooting slump is to keep shooting.  If he didn't have
12 rebounds and 12 assists, THEN you can start complaining.  He must have
done somthing to get those assists!

He had 12
> assists which is good, but that may be more a testament to Pierce's
ability
> and great night than Antoine's passing.

So Antoine earned zero of those assists?  I think I'm going to be sick.

> I will give him credit for passing the ball down the stretch to Pierce
> instead of shooting, and rebounding the ball well down the stretch as
well.

This is all the credit he deserves?

You sound just like the TV Commentators for Minnesota.  They did nothing but
trash Pitino, the Celtics, Pierce, Walker the entire first half.  Then when
the Celtics actually kept the game close, the lightened up a bit.  Then when
the Celtics beat them, they shut up!

AC