Re: Baker thinks fouls cooked up (Telegram & Gazette)

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Baker's cooked. Honestly, I don't believe I've been more disappointed or
seen as bad a player with his past credentials ever. This guy is a VCR stuck
in slow mo.

DanF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alessandro Celtics-Fan" <alessan420@hotmail.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 10:45 AM
Subject: Baker thinks fouls cooked up (Telegram & Gazette)


> Monday, December 2, 2002
> By Bill Doyle
> Telegram & Gazette Staff
>
> BOSTON -- Vin Baker has been a human foul machine in his first Celtics
> season, and after getting whistled for five fouls in 11 minutes against
New
> Orleans last night, he said he's thinking of calling the league office to
> complain.
>
> "I don't know if they're not used to me coming off the bench," said Baker,
> who had no points and four rebounds. "I've been in the league for 10 years
> and I'm doing the same things I've been doing for 10 years now. It's a
> situation where I'm coming out trying to be aggressive and right now
they're
> telling me my aggressiveness is too much. I'm not going to tone it down.
I'm
> going to maximize my time on the floor."
>
> Baker was whistled for three fouls and a defensive three second violation
> within three minutes and 49 seconds late in the first quarter and early in
> the second. With Tony Battie and Baker both in foul trouble, Bruno Sundov
> had to play the final 2:35 of the first half in a rare appearance.
>
> "Out of the five fouls called on me, three of them I thought were bogus,"
> Baker said. "You talk about 12 minutes, you've got to absolutely have your
> eye on me for 12, 13, 14 minutes to call five fouls. It's ridiculous."
>
> Although Baker has played only the eighth-most minutes on the team, he's
> tied with Paul Pierce for the second-most fouls with 48, two behind
Battie.
>
> http://www.telegram.com/sports/cnotes3.html
>
>
>
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