Re: [Celtics' Stuff Home Court!!

[JB <james.metz@verizon.net>]

In a message dated 04/10/2002 11:02:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
norine@pshift.com writes:


    A miserable game to watch - but the only thing that matters is they came
up with a win when the other contenders were losing and clinched home court.
Gotta be happy about that.  Seeing Pat Riley's face as he stormed to the
locker room after the game was pretty good, too!  I know - not nice, but I
can't help it.  This team just continues to pull them out - you gotta love
it!
Dorine
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            on 4/11/02 6:16 AM, davidp4660@aol.com at davidp4660@aol.com
wrote:

No, a wonderful game to watch.  Any time "Riles" goes down the tubes it's a
great game.  Couldn't stand him with the Lakers-dislike him even more now.
And, home court advantage in round 1 of the playoffs.  I love this game!
DavidP
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   There were many good aspects to the game.
   While we've seen wrestling matches with less contact, only twenty six
fouls shots were taken, between them.  Do you think the zebras were
counting? 8-13 for them. 11-13 for us. In any event, it's very difficult to
play "pretty" with so much contact and so little space to maneuver. Usually
the ref's make the teams back off each other a bit, with their whistles. So,
in spite of being forced to play the Heat's style, we hung with them, grunt
for groan, until the final bell. This team plays tough now. We never saw
that type of effort in Pitino seasons.
   Throughout the game we took good shots. While Miami was shooting jumpers,
we were going to the hoop. Many good attempts bounced in and out. Many of
our turnovers, were bad passes underneath, that were at least attempts to
hit an open or moving man.
   Antoine was  under control, he played with his head up, looking for
teammates (unfortunately many of those errant passes were his, but he kept
trying) and not only hit the two biggest baskets of the game, but made a key
steal, between those two shots, to keep the Heat from scoring.
   Kenny and Antoine really have seemed to have found a symbiotic
relationship. Anderson uses Walker's anxiety about getting the ball at the
top of the key, as his chance to get some rest. Walker feeds Pierce in the
post and Kenny takes a blow, but when the team needed an easy hoop, Kenny
had the dash, to split the defenders and go to the hole. I kept rubbing my
eyes; was that "Tiny" Archibald out there?
   Tony Battie missed a few put backs, which would have padded his stats,
but I've rarely seen him as active and strong as he was in the fourth
quarter. If he continues to play that aggressively, against arguably the
roughest front line in the league, our

playoff chances are greatly enhanced.
      


 JB

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