Re: [Celtics' Stuff FW: Sports Guy on the Celtics

[bird <birdwl@earthlink.net>]

On Monday, January 7, 2002, at 08:32 PM, Orion wrote:

> Yeah we will win games but with the worst shooting team in the league, the
> odds are against us going far in the playoffs.

Hey, just *making* the playoffs will be a dramatic improvement.  I'll 
worry myself into a ball when we can't get out of the first rounds for a 
year or two -- *if* that happens.

> Yes our "D" has gotten better, but we only had one way to go. Happy for he
> win but the Knicks are terrible.

As you may know, they don't count degree of difficulty in the standings.  
A win is a win is a win.

> As far as Walker , your right !  Who wouldn't want the 4 hanging around 
> the
> perimeter shooting  10 3's a game and shooting 39% from the field! This is
> just too logical and something all the other teams in the history of the
> league just haven't figured out yet.

It's actually not my personal preference.  I was schooled in a traditional 
power forward style (a la McHale).  But I am observant enough to realize 
that this non-traditional style of play from our power forward has helped 
the team become seven games over .500 after 33 or so games.  Whether or 
not it's "right" or fits in to how we may think power forwards ought to 
act means very little to me.  Wins mean a lot.

Bird