Re: A well played 24 minute game.

[Georgek27@AOL.com]

In a message dated 2/23/2002 11:02:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
dforant1@nycap.rr.com writes:


> Nice 1st half almost. A replay of the Dallas game. We lost to a much more
> athletic team. 3/4 not a bad road trip but sort of bitter taste left after 
> the
> last 2 games. Delk and Rogers look promising. After they get over the 
> hangover
> from the Walker Pierce act. 3 Celts took 52 shots Walker, Pierce and KA. 
> The
> rest, 6,  had 23 shots.
> 
A well played 12 minutes -- forget 24! In the first 4 minutes of the second 
quarter we turned the ball over SEVEN times! Someone mentioned Ray Charles 
and Stevie Wonder the other day? I think they were in our backcourt during 
that stint.

Walker shot 10 for 19 and Pierce 10 for 20 (which included two 3 pt. baskets 
after the outcome was already decided). We didn't lose because they took 39 
of our 75 shots -- we lost because we only took 75 shots as a team! That 
might be OK if we had thirtysomething free throws to go with it but we had 9. 
Between careless/lazy
passing and nonexistent rebounding we just didn't get enough shots.

George

PS - I really liked Calvin Murphy as a player but cannot stand him as a 
broadcaster.