[Non-Presumptive] What I Learned From the Chicago Game

[bird <birdwl@earthlink.net>]

Yes.  Well.  I can only offer my own opinions -- wouldn't *presume* to 
tell the great, united working-class, non-Cambridge-elitist blue-collar 
media-types here what to think, but ...

First off, the Celts won.  Beyond that, they played well, although they 
could have been better at rebounding the ball, always pushing/looking for 
fast breaks, and, of course, shooting a better percentage.  Now, a lot of 
that is Walker (8-21) and Anderson (3-10) (and, to a lesser extent, Pierce 
(5-12)), but I'll take Walker and Anderson shooting that percentage for 
the games they had.  Walker had a near-triple double (22, (6-11 3pt.) pts.
, 10 rebs, 8 assists, 3 blocks, 2 steals, 6 TO's), and Anderson continued 
his good early-season play.  When the C's win (even against Chicago) with 
Pierce having an off night, it's all good.

Joe Johnson got as many minutes as EWill (21) which is nice, and McCarty 
never made it into the game, but I'm wondering as to why the minutes at 
the troika (Battie 19; Blount 19; Potapenko 11) are so ... rabidly insane.
   I mean, V grabs 6 rebs and scores 8 points in his time; Blount had 4 and 
3 (though he's credited with 4 steals).  Plus, it seemed that Potapenko 
woud have been a good choice to go up against Bagaric.  Is Obie on crack?  
(Sorry, media-wannabe-type inflammatory statement ... disregard.)  Still, 
is Battie playing so few minutes because of the pain?  Does Mark Blount 
have incriminating pictures of Obie?  (Again, irresponsible "journalistic"
  speculation.)

Strickland looked like he might be effective through the season.  Good 
pickup, cautiously said.

Let's face it, if they can beat the Bucks, they've got their good opening 
start.

Oh, right, almost, forgot, Antoine sucks, the team bites, 
gonna-lose-all-the-games, they-didn't-do-what-*I*-said-blah-blah-blah, the 
usual.

(The Celtic "Tird")

P.S. Did *anyone* other than Rich ("He-Who-Maintains-the-Prediction-List") 
take WayRay's 61-won game "prediction" for real?  For how it really 
felt/thinks/predicted?  Anyone?  Bueller?