Re: Antoine and the Boobirds

["Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>]

And to use a Red Sox analogy, that friggin Nomar is such a doofus isn't he?
I mean, he has no patience at the plate, goes up there swinging at the first
pitch he sees sometimes no matter where it is.  If only he would be the
player he could be :-)

Cecil



----- Original Message -----
From: "pmaurice" <damekmo@teleport.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: Antoine and the Boobirds


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Berry, Mark S <berrym@BATTELLE.ORG>
>
> > Enough buts. Watching him is absolutely exasperating for a basketball
> > purist.
> >
> > Mark
>
> Yeah, I'm a basketball purist too, and I can tell you I'm pissed that
> they're 42-32 and heading into the playoffs. And I'll tell you, I don't
know
> how this team's won 42 games with that idiot coach and ball- hogging power
> forward controlling things. Given how stupid O'Brien is and how much
control
> Antoine has over everyone on the team you'd think this team would be 1-73.
I
> just wish that basketball purist Pitino were still in charge. He knows how
> the game should be played. There's a guy who, no matter what the team's
> record, was right. And the thing I loved about him...the record REALLY
> didn't matter. He was going to do things the right way...the purists
> way...and if they were going to lose, so be it. Gotta respect that. Now
that
> Antoine and O'Brien are in charge, well, now that Antoine's in charge,
this
> team has started winning and I just don't care how they do it, it's just
> wrong. And I'm tired of using the excuse, well, it seems to be working.
> Enough excuses for this kind of basketball, for this kind of player. Damn
> the record. That's no excuse for soiling the purity of a great franchise,
of
> a great game. What would Larry think if he were walking through that door
> again? I just hope they trade that selfish ball-hog for a "pure" power
> forward like Brian Grant and fire that idiot coach in the off season and
> hire a "pure" head coach like Pitino. Purity, that's what we need more
> of...not this winning crap. And one more thing about making the playoffs.
> This is the Boston Celtics we're talking about. This team hasn't made the
> playoffs in almost a decade, but as a purist, as a Boston Celtics fan, I
say
> screw the playoffs. If this team doesn't win a championship this season
has
> been a total failure. Getting to the playoffs, winning the majority of
games
> you play, meaningless for a franchise like the Boston Celtics who haven't
> made the playoffs in almost a decade. I know I was much happier when we
had
> that genius/purist Rick Pitino stalking the sidelines with his huge
> basketball brain and pure basketball soul losing all those games because I
> knew that in time, the team would win "the right way." Eventually.Given
> enough time. Given enough pure thoughts. When the team didn't make the
> playoffs at least we knew it was for the right reasons. They didn't play
the
> game the way it was supposed to be played, so they didn't win. Now this
> crap, this idiot coach, this excuse for a basketball player, and they get
to
> the playoffs? Not on my moral watch. This purist is having none of it,
> enjoying none of it. I hate this winning crap so much.
>
>
> Paul M.