RE: The final word from Alonzo

["Ravi Singh" <kelticsfan@attbi.com>]

The point is that someone who plays professional basketball, and takes a
good amount of physical abuse doing so, believes O'Neal acted
inappropriately.  

Furthermore, there is a difference between squaring up and fighting a
guy that is standing face to face with you and running up behind someone
and nailing them with no forewarning.  O'Neal's actions cannot be
justified in any way, shape or form.  There are ways to get your point
across within the flow of the game and O'Neal chose the cowardly route
rather than the more tactful one of applying the appropriate foul at the
appropriate time.  He needs to learn a thing or two from Cowens or
Charles Oakley.  



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-celtics@igtc.com [mailto:owner-celtics@igtc.com] On Behalf
Of Kestas
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 4:52 PM
To: celtics@igtc.com
Subject: Re: The final word from Alonzo


At 13:45 1/15/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>``First and foremost, I've been hit all upside the head, stitches and 
>breaks, and broken noses -- two of them -- so I know,'' Mourning said. 
>``There isn't but so much room under that basket. So if you have a 
>330-pound 7-footer out there with a bunch of other 6-10, 250-, 
>260-pound guys all in the paint at one time, there's going to be a lot 
>of bumping and hitting.''
>
>In short, O'Neal should have taken his beating in stride, Mourning 
>said.

And how many fights has he gotten into? I seem to remember a few just
with the Knicks..