RE: Antoine needs new moves and more finesse

[OzerskyJA <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>]

I don't know if this is flame bait or what, but in any case it's just silly.

Antoine definitely needs to incorporate pump fakes into his game, but
the guy is acknowledged as one of the toughest covers in the league down
low.  He's got more moves than I can count down there, going both ways,
and uses them to advantage all the time.  Tommy Heinsohn, the guy you
probably got your pump-fake point from, has said over and over that he
would have Antoine live on the box.  To say that the refs are giving him too

much love makes me laugh out loud.

Jeff, take a page out of some of the older fans in this group and get on
board
for the big win!  You have nothing to lose but your Fleet Center groupthink.


Josh Ozersky	
Marketing Communications Specialist 
Corning Museum of Glass

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	jeff_chin@notes.teradyne.com [SMTP:jeff_chin@notes.teradyne.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 25, 2001 9:58 AM
> To:	Celtics@igtc.com
> Subject:	Antoine needs new moves and more finesse
> 
> 
> Every team has got toine's post game figured out.  He gets the ball near
> the base line, does a few cross-over dribbles, cheaply straight-arms his
> defender, spins and tosses the ball up.  The other team just has someone,
> a
> la Mutombo, Ratliff, or some unknown cba scrub, come from the weak side
> and
> BLAM! it's a block party.  It amazes me that our franchise player has
> never
> learned the pump fake.  Toine's post game is ugly and cheap and makes me
> reminisce about the days of mcHale and Hakeem in their prime.  Toine just
> barrels in like a football player using his arm to clear the defender out.
> Every time I see his moves on replay I wonder why the refs don't call that
> an offensive foul.
> 
>