Re: the Portland game

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

After listening to the Celts Vs Denver, the announcers were mentioning the
punishment the Celts deal out game after game taking it inside. There is
some truth to that and it surfaced again against Portland. When Toine,
Williams, Strickland and even KA decide to take it inside bodies usually are
moved or hit the deck. The Celts are playing up to their capabilities.

L8ter
DanF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kestas" <Kestutis.Kveraga@dartmouth.edu>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 10:22 AM
Subject: the Portland game


> That last minute was something else. I knew they would pull out one of
> these 'L' games on this trip. Can they pull out two?
> It's amazing that we won despite getting outrebounded by a wide margin
> (again!), and with several of our already shooting-challenged players
> having poor shooting nights. The difference was that they didn't settle
for
> the jumper, like in the GS game, but went inside. Also, great games from
> Battie and Kenny helped immensely. Pierce somehow went missing most of the
> game, if that's possible for guy who scored 31 points, but resurfaced just
> in time to win the game. Walker again shot poorly, but this time was more
> judicious with his shot selection and gave up the rock to the right
people.
> Eric Williams is amazing: he can't shoot from more than 5 feet anymore
(his
> jumpers barely reached the rim), and he can't stop anyone one-on-one, yet
> somehow he finds a way to contribute.  That can't be said about JJ, who
has
> about 10x more talent, but no fire in the belly.
> Concerns: the number of contributing players is down to 6, we're getting
> killed on the boards, and most of our contributing players are shooting
> bricks. But hey, Byron Russell will solve these problems....
> Opposition players of note: 'Sheed is so freakishly talented, he's only
> top-5 in the league talentwise. I can't believe some listmembers think
> Walker is better or comparable. It's like comparing Battie and Pot, on a
> much higher level: they get similar results, but for very different
reasons.
> Kestas