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RE: Peter May Says On WEEI:
To me, that is an unrealistic way of thinking. You have a cohesive,
defensively strong unit, with two all-star caliber players -- one of whom
is a dominating scorer well on his way to superstar status. And you think
that they'll only be mediocre unless they add an MVP-caliber center?
That's ludicrous. Philadelphia is a title contender with one great player
and eleven role players. Chicago won two titles that way. San Antonio
is dominating the league with Tim Duncan, a semi-washed up David Robinson,
one good young guard, and a bunch of spot up shooters.
The days when you needed to assemble a hall of fame starting five
are long gone. The Celtics get a Jason Terry type player, Mark Blount
develops at all, and you have yourself a sold playoff team. After that,
it's a question of how the brackets fall: just ask the Knicks, Sixers,
Jazz, Sonics, or Magic.
Josh Ozersky
Marketing Communications Specialist
Corning Museum of Glass
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sampath, Venkatesh [SMTP:Venkatesh.Sampath@microcell.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 4:34 PM
> To: Celtics@igtc.com
> Subject: RE: Peter May Says On WEEI:
>
> 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
> >