FW: Run, you say?

[JB <jbmetzea@yahoo.com>]

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From: JB <jbmetzea@Yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 17:17:02 -0500
To: <hartleyo@bellsouth.net>, <celtics@igtc.com>, Celtic's Stuff
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Subject: Re: Run, you say?


on 1/2/02 8:43 PM, Hartley at hartleyo@bellsouth.net wrote:

This  loony post,  has no meaning. Last time we looked they were a stones
throw
from being first in their division. let alone the Eastern conference and you
want to break em up.

Hart
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"Loony" you say? Well one man's "loony," may be another mans inspiration.
Or, as Paul Simon put it, so succinctly: "One man's ceiling is another man's
floor." From that reference, I mean to imply that I/we are all happy with
the Celtics this season, no doubt, but I will never be satisfied, until we
are the best in the league. If you hadn't noticed already, from the
Philadelphia, the Utah and the Sacramento games, we are not yet at the elite
level. A team with a big front line can render us as ineffective as we
rendered the Magic last night and we have way too many poor possessions, to
compete with the likes of a Sacramento.
  My post, (see below), as it referred to the lack of running and stagnating
offense that might arise, has already been rendered ridiculous, by last
nights game. We ran profusely and for the first half, it was a lay up drill.
I was impressed, particularly by the maturity and selflessness of our
captains. But the other concept of that post, based on the premise, that we
have an unbalanced roster and too few contributing players, will not go
away, with victories over the center less and hobbling, former giants, of
the East. 
 You are afraid to break up this beast? If dropping from the roster; Randy
Brown or Milt Palacio, Rowshown McLeod or Marc Blount, or even "Buggs"
McCarthy, would do damage to the chemistry of this team, how do you ever
hope to improve it? If you want to preserve chemistry, you deal from the
bottom, keeping the core (useful players) intact and try to fill holes. Is
there any other way to do it?
  Is it "loony" to want a backup point guard of some merit and distributing
ability, in case Kenny is hobbled, or wears down from the major minutes he
is playing? Am I off base, to think that Antoine needs a blow sometimes, or
that against certain teams, with those big front lines, that another bruiser
up front, would not bring us up to another level?
  You can knock me for redundancy, assuredly, as it must seem to some of
you, that I am like a broken record, at times, but lunacy? I speak/write
from the heart, as I'm on no ones payroll and it pleases me to do so. If it
be madness, hopefully, there is no cure.
                     JB
                   
    
                   

                          Unchain My Heart!

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JB wrote:

>   With two seriously injured: Randy Brown and Rowshown McLeod, three
> seriously mentally impaired: Walter (even tipsy mother, Heinsohn, no longer
> loves him), Milt (you want to watch him play point guard? Not me!) and
> Blount (there is no one on planet earth that wants to se him play center,
> ever again), we are down to ten players. We have three rookies who all play
> the same position, that leaves eight, since it's very unlikely that more
> than one of them will get minutes. Of that eight, three: Pierce, Walker and
> Anderson are over taxed already, two: Eric Williams and Tony Battie have
> chronic knee and ankle problems, respectively and who do we have left to run
> the floor?  Vitaly and Erick Strickland with our rookie du jour? Tammo is
> correct about Joe Johnson stumbling as the lead man on the break. All three
> will probably land in a heap of tangled bodies, trying to get to the same
> spot on the floor.
>   I suspect it will get worse before it gets better. We read this AM about
> Pierce and Walker with nagging injuries and Vitaly with a stomach bug. How
> much running do you expect this bunch to do?
>   Yes, we need help right now, before the good feelings start to dissolve in
> the morass of a poorly designed roster. If Pierce can't play Eric Williams
> can play the three, sounds credible, but he shoots his weight, like a
> baseball player flirting with the "Mendoza Line." If Walker can't play? Eric
> williams can play the four (oh yeah, Eric can get a triple double).  I
> suppose he can play center and point guard also. I mean, no disrespect, the
> man is a man and his skills, as they are, have bailed us out of many bad
> situations, this season, but he is not the answer to all our woes, Jimmy.
>   Either we seek injury exceptions for our two disabled, or Milt and Mark
> have to go, now. What is the cost of minimum contracts for the remaining
> part of the season? $220,000 each? Please.
>   Plyers in their last contract year; like McGinnis of the Clippers would be
> fine thank you, so would Travis Best pining on the bench in Indiana. Mark
> Jackson of G.S., also would markedly improve this team, but baring the major
> move, lets see our owner/front office do anything productive.
>   We won't sustain the great start to the season, without some fresh legs.
> Without any running game, we will be be back to Antoine at the top of the
> three point line, looking for his shot, driving into traffic or looking into
> Pierce, surrounded by enemy, much like Custer at Big Horn.
>   Big game tonight, coming off the road. Excuses already written, with
> little injuries. O'Brien has worked wonders before, when things went South.
> Is he up to it again? We'll know a lot by the end of this week.
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>                           Unchain My Heart!