Re: Detroit game

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

I watched the game but just went back to the box score. It tells a lot.
Mainly Delk went o for 2? Just 18 minutes. A mistake in my opinion. We need
20-25 combined out of Delk and Rogers.

DanF
----- Original Message -----
From: <CeltsSteve@AOL.com>
To: <Celtics@igtc.com>; <Celticsstuffgroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: Detroit game


> In a message dated 3/24/02 3:55:33 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> dforant1@nycap.rr.com writes:
>
>
> > We never matched the intensity of Detroit's from the opening jump. They
came
> > out with an agenda. We lost because we are a perimeter team and we shot
26%
> > 3's. We played sloppy and loose again and it cost us. I still think we
have
> > a shot at the finals in the East.
>
>
>
>
> Dan,
>
> I agree the C's did not match Detroit's intensity from the opening tip.
The
> Pistons quickly zoomed to a 10-1 lead and the C's were running uphill the
> remainder of the 1st half and were actually lucky to get it down to a 3
point
> game. They were trying  to be aggressive at the urging of Obie as
witnessed
> in one of the time out huddles because the refs being a veteran crew were
> letting them play. They foresaked the 3-ball for most of the game (only 12
> attempts well into the 4th quarter) but couldn't stop Detroit defensively
and
> they let Ben Wallace look absolutely Chamberlain-esque.
>
> By the 4th quarter, they found themselves 15 down and that is when they
made
> a comeback of sorts by inserting V into the game to put a body on Wallace
and
> going back to the 3-ball which cut it down to 5 at 102-97 but they
couldn't
> get over the hump.
>
> They made more FGs than Detroit and were fairly close on the boards
(50-44)
> despite Wallace's monster game and were within 1 on the O-boards (16-15).
The
> difference wasn't as much from the 3-point line as you might think as they
> made 5 out of 19 attempts which is well under their seasonal average even
> though Detroit made 8 - 22 from downtown.
>
> The difference IMO was Detroit made 21-26 from the FT line and the C's
were
> only 12-17 and Wallace blocked 6 shots while the C's could only manage 2.
How
> is it that a team that plays as physical as Detroit only gets whistled for
5
> personal fouls and the C's play 'soft' and get whistled for 22 fouls?
>
> CeltsSteve