RE: Rebounds and Tony Battie

["Wright, Cecil" <Cecil.Wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chutzpah???  How's about he showed some stupidity?  People are quick to jump
on Walker with respect to techs, but he has never done something like that,
has he?  Big game, probably the toughest of the homestand, and Battie goes
off over something so harmless as a ball out of bounds so early in the game?
Foolish.

I admire the fact that he wants to win so badly, but you can't take out your
frustration on such an innocuous play like that.  I'm betting that he'll be
fined.

But it could have had a disastrous effect on the game had Vin not played
decently.  And of course he also picked up a T.  Good thing he didn't kick
the ball too (showed chutzpah) or we would have been forced to play Bruno
for the remainder of the game.

Obviously, the refs don't give a shit about us, so we would be smarter to
just leave them alone and concentrate on our execution.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Forant [mailto:dforant1@nycap.rr.com]
Sent: December 10, 2002 10:32 AM
To: Celtics@igtc.com
Subject: Re: Rebounds and Tony Battie


Sure, Wallace is more valuable, but Batman has been Super. It could be just
the beginning. He's actually looking for his shots. In the NO pre-game
warm-up he was as smooth as flowing solder. He looks focused this season.
Most improved Celt by far. Showed some chutzpa kicking the ball into the
refs butt.

DanF

----- Original Message -----
From: <RickDHome@AOL.com>
To: <Celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: Rebounds and Tony Battie


> Joe H. writes:
>
>
> > I presume Ben Wallace will win the popular vote at
> > center, based on name recognition. Am I leaving anyone
> > else out?
> >
>
> I'm very happy with Battie's progress.  He's been key in our success this
> year, but I suspect Wallace will win the popular vote because of his
monster
> rebounding and shot blocking, rather than name recognigition.  There's not
a
> team in the league that wouldn't take Wallace over Battie in a heartbeat.