Re: [Celtics' Stuff Poor coaching again by Obie loses game

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

I grant you that VP played well during the recent stretch but let's not
delude ourselves into thinking he has done it consistently throughout the
course of the season.  He's also a foul magnet with bad hands.

Cecil


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Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Celtics' Stuff Poor coaching again by Obie loses game


> Walker 46 minutes
> Pierce 44 minutes
> Equals loss.
>
> The boys just don't have anything let to get hot at the end and carry the
> team to victory. Steve, it had nothing to do with the refs.
>
> Rogers had 14 points and 9 rebounds in 28 minutes. He is the third best
> offensive player on the team and should be playing 35 minutes. Walker and
> Pierce should be reduced to 40 minutes. Two of the three should always be
on
> the floor.
>
> Note how much better the team played when they put VP in there to block
out
> Wallace. It doesn't take a brainiac to figure out that the biggest part of
> the battle of collecting a defensive rebound is to keep your opponents
best
> rebounder in tow and let your teammates get the rebound.
>
> Note the ditty on NBC on how the coaches came to Stackhouse and asked him
to
> play less minutes to make him more effective in crunch time. Our boy Obie
> must have missed that day of Basketball 101...
>
> Finally, since Obie only deals in positive reinforcement, maybe we should
get
> together and put together a video clip of our latest streak with Vitally
> playing to "gently" remind him of how much better we play when we have
some
> mass in the middle....
>
> DJessen33