Re: Layoff helps Celts too.

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

Your entitled to your opinion and me to mine. Were you gooey? Never read
much of your posts.

DanF
----- Original Message -----
From: "bird" <birdwl@earthlink.net>
To: <Celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: Layoff helps Celts too.


> > From: "Dan Forant" <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>
> >
> > Dan is alive and well. When the Celts were looking more like the Detroit
> > High Freshmen team they were getting and deserved negative posts. Only
> > diehard gooey Celtic fans pleaded their case.
>
> It couldn't have been because they saw something you didn't right Forant?
> I don't know which is more disconcerting: your 180 turnaround from
> negative curmudgeon to optimistic curmudgeon (hmmm, maybe that's not
> really a 180 turnaround then, is it?), or the fact that I agree with parts
> of your recent posts.
>
> Oh, well, it's all good.  I'd kiss Dick Nixon a la Sammy Davis, Jr. if the
> C's keep playing "clamp down" defense in the finals minutes of playoff
> games.  That's what it's all about.  How many times have we seen the team
> just shut the opposition down in the last minutes of a game?  How many
> times have we heard the players and coaches say that they always feel like
> they have a good chance to win the game?  It's a 48 minute game, but
there'
> s always that span of time -- could even be five minutes or so -- which is
> critical to a team's success.  In close games, it's often the last five
> minutes or so.  The Celtics have proven, to me, that they understand what
> is needed to win during that time, regular season and playoffs.
>
> Can''t wait until the next game tomorrow.  Hard to imagine Philly just
> rolling over, but I do think the C's will prevail: All they really need to
> do is "stop" AI and play the other ("role") players aggressively.
Iverson'
> s going to have to carry this team (or guys like McKie, Snow, and Mutombo
> are going to have to "step up" huge) for Philly to win the series.
> Winning a game is not out of the realm of possibility by any means, but
> right now, the Sixers look outclassed.  We'll have a better look when
> Philly plays at home.
>
> Bird
>
> P.S.
> > OB for coach of the year and PP for MVP.
>
> I hate the MVP award because it means something different to each
> person -- why not just have a "Best Player" award?  But, though Obie
> probably doesn't deserve COtY, what with Scott, Carlisle and the perennial
> Western Conf, coaches in the running, but it has surprised me just how
> little discussion his cause is getting.  And I use "surprised' in the most
> lenient of possible ways, as I think we all saw a lot of vehement
> criticism of the guy right here, and it''s only now that people are
> speaking up with assertions that maybe, just maybe, Jim O'Brien isn't
> "wicked retahded".