RE: Peter May Says On WEEI:

["Sampath, Venkatesh" <Venkatesh.Sampath@microcell.ca>]

I would tend to agree with Jim. With the present make-up, we can hope to be a "decent" team, perhaps able to make it to the play-offs now and then. Walker and Pierce, since Pitino's departure, are bringing fairly strong scoring on a seemingly regular basis (without getting into the field goal percentage), but the support is very weak. 
I mean we have reached a stage where we point to Randy Brown and his "experience on a Championship team." Let's face it - he was a reserve who got lucky. We have 16 banners hanging from the ceiling and we can't find one player from one of those Championship teams to help us regain our glory days? I used to think that we had reached our nadir with Carr as our coach - at least he managed to work the deal that brought us Walker. Pitino kept complaining about how he was unlucky to miss out on Duncan - why the hell didn't he thank his stars on being able to land Pierce at #10? (Not that I'm trying to compare the two players). 
In fact, our hope at a Championship will begin if we manage to tear Duncan away from the Spurs - much like West did with O'Neal and the Magic - and still keep Walker and Pierce. 

venkat 

-----Original Message-----
From: OzerskyJA [mailto:OzerskyJA@cmog.org]
Sent: 22 March 2001 16:10
To: 'Jim McMaster'; Celtics@igtc.com
Subject: RE: Peter May Says On WEEI: 


See,  my take on it is that the Celtics were a bad team, but that they made
a big jump when Pitino left, and are now a solid playoff team
in the east and a borderline playoff team in the west.  Obie has steered
the Celtics to a .500 record through horrendous road swings, multiple games
against title contenders, etc.  If he had been coaching all year, I'm
convinced we would be several games over .500, at least at the even-up
point.  Just my feeling.

Josh Ozersky	
Marketing Communications Specialist 
Corning Museum of Glass

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jim McMaster [SMTP:mcmaster@falcon.stortek.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 22, 2001 4:03 PM
> To:	Celtics@igtc.com
> Subject:	Re: Peter May Says On WEEI: 
> 
> Losses happen...look at the Bulls versus the Celtics.  If the Nuggets or 
> Sonics  were in the East, their records would qualify them for the
> playoffs, 
> bumping both Boston and Indiana. Phoenix actually would be fifth in the
> East. 
>  These records were earned against better competition.
> 
> Bottom line:  a good team would not be nine games under .500 at this point
> in 
> the season.  The Celtics are a probably not far from being a decent team,
> but 
> they are light-years away from Championship contention.
> -- 
> Jim McMaster
> mailto:mcmaster@falcon.stortek.com
> Go Celtics!
> 
> 
> In message <20010322195442.10139.qmail@web1005.mail.yahoo.com>, Shailendra
> 
> Mish
> ra said:
> > 
> > How would you then explain there multiple losses to a bad east coast
> team. - 
> > Mishra 
> > 
> >   Jim McMaster <mcmaster@falcon.stortek.com> wrote: 
> > In message <20010321212807.26299.qmail@web1004.mail.yahoo.com>,
> Shailendra 
> > Mish
> > ra said:
> > 
> > > My only comment is, if the C's are a bad team, then how would you
> classify 
> > t
> > > eams like Suns, Nuggets, Pacers, Sonics. Worse ??? - Mishra
> > > 
> > 
> > No, I would classify the Suns, Nuggets and Pacers as unlucky to be in
> the 
> > West. The Pacers seem to be a better team with a bad coach.
> > -- 
> > Jim McMaster
>