Re: [Celtics' Stuff RE: The real problem with 3's

["Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>]

I see Obie has regained his dickhead status. 

Cecil


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ravi Singh" <kelticsfan@attbi.com>
To: <Celticsstuffgroup@yahoogroups.com>; <Celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 7:09 AM
Subject: RE: [Celtics' Stuff RE: The real problem with 3's


> I have to agree with Kestas here JB.  While I don't believe the coach
> wants such poor decisionmaking on offense, I'll say this.  You wouldn't
> see that poor decisionmaking with a Pat Riley, Phil Jackson or even Nate
> McMillan as the head coach.  If you did, the guilty parties would be
> sitting beside the coach on the bench, getting an earful. 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-celtics@igtc.com [mailto:owner-celtics@igtc.com] On Behalf
> Of Kestas
> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 6:34 AM
> To: celtics@igtc.com
> Subject: Re: [Celtics' Stuff RE: The real problem with 3's
> 
> 
> At 07:22 3/23/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >        ************
> >   I am as aghast as you at the disintegration of the C's last night, 
> >Ravi, but I don't think it's fair to blame the coach. Do you really 
> >think that O'Brien was happy with Delk's missed bomb, with about a 
> >minute left and the C's down four?
> 
> Well, he's just reaping what he has sown. He publicly implores his
> players to take the first trey that shows - so they do. Whether he's
> stupid enough to actually believe that this is the best strategy for
> this team, or simply covering up for his stars who love to shoot it,
> doesn't even matter. It takes a player of great discipline to not be
> seduced into chucking up a three and instead expend energy to get a
> better shot. Most of our players aren't mature enough to resist the
> Siren call of the three-shot. And, like Chuck Barkley keeps reiterating
> on TNT, "that's why the Celtics are going home early in the playoffs.
> That team shoots entirely too many threes." 
> 
> When the coach encourages the players to succumb to their worst
> tendencies, that just makes the problem so much worse. It results in an
> offense where everyone's stationed around the three-point-line, nobody's
> moving without the ball, and nobody's rebounding. I'd be curious to see
> what the correlation between the number of 3s taken, and the rebounding
> differential is. When the players play with a sense of urgency,
> searching out the best shot, moving without the ball, playing tough D -
> as they did in the first quarter last night, in the second half against
> the Cavs, and usually do against the best teams - they can roll over
> Eastern Conference teams, and stay in the game with or occassionally
> beat the best Western teams. But once Iverson was out, it was Obie
> offense - three-point-city, baby, which gives rise to all kinds of other
> problems. Pierce summed it up best:
> 
> ''We didn't play with a sense of urgency [when Iverson was not in the
> game],'' said Paul Pierce (26 points, 8 rebounds, 7 assists). ''We
> didn't have a war mentality in the second half. We must have thought we
> could just cakewalk with Iverson not playing the second half. We just
> sat back and let them dictate the tempo and dictate the game for some
> reason. Why, I don't know.''
> 
> Kestas