Re: ".....love that dirty water...."

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is excellent writing. Wish I would have thought of it. Three teams I
dislike most..........LA, NY, Philly......and in no special order.

DanF

----- Original Message -----
From: "JB" <jimmetz@mac.com>
To: "Celtics' Stuff" <Celticsstuffgroup@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "Celtics List" <Celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 9:25 PM
Subject: ".....love that dirty water...."


> Just what's up with the Boston sports scene? The Patriots pull another
> horseshoe out of their ....., after winning the Superbowl, riding a
> streak of luck and freak occurrences. The Bruins, while winning their
> division last season, got blown out of the playoffs in the first round,
> lost their goalie, their top defense man and arguably their best
> forward, over the off season and are playing their best hockey in
> years, while the Celtics lost their point guard, the sixth and seventh
> men in their rotation and like the Patriots and the Bruins, after
> humiliating  starts, are sitting (tied) in first place in their
> division.
> If I wasn't a rational man, I'd be sitting on a mountaintop, with
> charts and graphs, trying to plot the planetary influences. I'm
> beginning to feel like the hero of the "Ballad of a Thin Man." You know
> the one; "Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is,
> do you Mr. Jones."
> The next challenge for the Celtics is the renewal of a long and
> bitter rivalry, with the hated Sixers. Tomorrow night,  Allen Iverson
> and company come to town, sporting a new, tough guy, attitude.
> On the "Celticsstuff" board today, MM posted  a few articles from the
> Philadelphia papers. Every other word was; "tough, " toughness" and the
> like. Me thinks, the lady doth protesteth too much.
>  From Erick Snow:
> {"It's personal," the Sixers' floor leader said. "It's personal. It's
> always personal when the team put you out of the playoffs. I mean, it
> was personal for them when we beat them eight straight, right? That was
> personal for them. They put us out of the playoffs. It's got to be
> personal. And I'm quite sure they expect it to be personal."}
> Gone is the big African elbow; Dikembe Mutombo. Bar room brawler,
> Derrick Coleman, is on the injured list and  their biggest player Todd
> MacCulloch, has bad feet. In their place, is Keith Van Horne, who while
> shooting very well the last two games, is no threat to kick sand in
> anyone's face, let alone piss on their shoes. Greg Buckner, a Dallas
> castoff, who fights Aaron McKie for minutes, is a hard nosed defender,
> but I don't think the Celtics are going to fear driving the lane
> against this bunch of  perimeter players.
> Any team that has Allen Iverson is a threat, to win any game, no
> doubt, but this game does not scare me the way the Sixers did in the
> last few years with Mutombo and Theo Ratlieff defending the interior.
> Tony Delk and Shammond Williams should be able to tire out Iverson.
> While Buckner may draw Pierce and give him pause, Paul  does not have
> a  particularly tough match up on the defensive end, which should help
> him (as if he needs any).
> Can Van Horne guard Walker? I don't think so.
> Who will guard Vin Baker? This just might be part two of the Vin Baker
> "Resurection."
> If the Celtics keep passing the ball, they will win this game, because
> Iverson won't.
>
> JB
>
> Unchain My Heart !