Re: Misc.

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

With all due respect, you must be looking at the situation with rose colored
glasses on. This team may make the 8th spot with luck. This team never knew
how to play basketball, Kenny made em look good. 6/14 next 20.

DanF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lance Jacobson" <lancejacob@attbi.com>
To: "Dan Forant" <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>; <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: Misc.


> Gee, Dan, I'm glad you've got it all figured out. . .no wonder Cecil is in
> awe of your analysis.
>
> Until the next game, when you're loving life.
>
> There's enough talent on this team to win, but it's got to be used
correctly
> and efficiently, and we can't expect their attitudes to be perfect all the
> time.  Walker and Pierce STILL think that their talents are greater than
the
> teams they're playing, and until they use the lesser teammates to create
> easy baskets and draw away defenders, they won't shoot at the percentages
> they did in prior years, nor will the Celts win.
>
> These are lessons they're learning now, and even if Obie can't team them,
> the opposition will.  Nobody took a higher percentage of their team's
shots
> than our captains did, and opposing coaches know this.  It's just a
question
> of WHEN in the first half Twan and PP try to take over, and the grins
start
> on the other side of the court.
>
> Watch it happen, Dan. . .  and watch it sink in.  I don't think we'll be a
> .500 team at Xmas, but we'll do better than that after February, injuries
> not withstanding.
>
> It's one thing to play badly.  It's another to play stupidly and lazily,
and
> until I see these Celts doing the right things and failing, I won't write
> them off.
>
> You seem to write them off every half hour.  Are they gone yet?