re: Mr MVP

[Tammo29@AOL.com]

--- You wrote:
But we've seen instances with the Celtics were harmless fouls have been 
called flagrant.  Walter McCarty had one not that long ago.  It happens.  --- 
end of quote ---

Was this prescient or what, given what happened in tonight's game?! 
Potapenkoshould re-enact Cowens's demonstration of what a real  hard foul 
looks like oneof these days, just so that the refs woul know the difference.  
Now, if theplayer *looks* like he might fall down after being fouled, it's an 
automaticflagrant, no matter how innocuous the foul. 

  I was thinking the same thing.  It's almost gotten ridiculous.

I'm really proud of our guys. They didn't let the refs give the game to 
thePoodles. 

  Well, Antoine's technical after the Rogers call and Anderson's bonehead 
foul on Peeler after he rebounded the ball a few seconds later came pretty 
close to giving them the game.  Clutch free throw shooting and smothering 
defense down the stretch pulled it out at the end.