Re: Badgers are really goundhogs, you know.

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll be there Dec 1st. The noise  most of the time is just plain junk.
Imagine getting paid 7 figures a year and needing noise for motivation??
Now, do they bring in hookers to the clubseat section?

DanF

----- Original Message -----
From: "JB" <jimmetz@mac.com>
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Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 11:21 AM
Subject: Badgers are really goundhogs, you know.


> Toad would have loved that place, really, all the noise and bright
> lights and even the two hookers who were escorted down to the VIP
> section, with about 5 minutes remaining in the game; but for an old
> badger like me, it was just too much glitz, too much excitement, that
> had nothing to do with the game. With all of the competitions, the "T"
> shirt gun, the huge scoreboard, and the artificial  roars of the
> fans(?), I might have preferred to watch  the game from my warm and
> cozy burrow.
> I really do dislike the constant promotion and attempt to fill the
> place with so much artificial, non-game stimulus, that my most common
> remark to my scintillating companion, the "Divine Ms. M." was: "What?
> What did you say?" It's especially annoying during timeouts, the noise
> level doesn't recede, it increases, so the idea of discussing the play,
> or sharing a tale or two, with the patrons in the next seats, or the
> ones behind, always part of the charm of going  to the game, was not a
> possibility.
> I'm not sure if this experience will precede a long and cold winter,
> but it will be a long day in May (I hope), before I want to go back to
> that house of frenzy.
> The game, oh yes, the game. It started pretty well, especially
> Antoine, who played the first half like a hall of famer.  His game was
> right out of the textbook. Most of his 18 points, in that half, were
> from down low, while the recipient of clever passes.  It looked like we
> could score from the paint at will, but for some strange reason, we
> just stopped trying. Was it Shawn Bradley, making adjustments (he did
> start-did his attitude or zone responsibility change in the second half
> ?), or just lack of will, I don't know. By the second half, we had gone
> back  to hoisting from the arc, which is just playing into Dallas'
> hands. They shoot better, partly because they have a great point guard,
> who gets them open looks.
> We got close late in the fourth quarter, when the only real defensive
> intensity of the game erupted. Walker, McCarty, Baker, Delk and S.
> Williams  got it to six,  but for some inexplicable reason, O'Brien
> subbed Pierce and Battie, for Vin and Walter and the pressure
> dissolved, as did our chances of winning. With Walker and Pierce
> scoring exactly 8 points between them for the second half, we won't win
> many, but unless we defend with more intensity, consistently, against
> these better teams, we are just another also ran, no matter who is
> shooting well.
> Kim and I agreed that while Delk and S. Williams are both nice
> players, for the team to really compete, with the top teams in the
> East, one of them will have to go. A true point guard has to be brought
> in. If Vin Baker's contributions don't expand, his huge contract over
> the next five years might make the rest of the roster choices, slim as
> they will be, irrelevant. He made a few blocks and some rebounds, but
> for 15 million, it's just not cutting it.
> Walker can't be the point distributor, scorer and rebounder, it just
> won't work. As it's been said  before "you can't be in two places at
> the same time." The offense needs to be balanced with more the cuts and
> interior passing, to allow the outside shooting to open up, just like
> in football, where  a even great passer, needs  a running game, to keep
> the defense honest. It's also been said before, that to develop a post
> game (and that was O'Brien's stated intention, by bringing in
> Gallagher, wasn't it?) you need a point guard to set it up. No matter
> how many points Delk and S. Williams score this can't be overlooked.
> Having said that, both Delk (7)and Williams (6), had pretty good
> nights, passing the ball and were both looking for Walker down low in
> the first half. In 50 minutes combined, the two erstwhile point guards,
> had 38 points and 13 assists. Not a bad night's work, even if they
> can't satisfy a point guard purist like me.
> Speaking of pure point guards; I did get a chance to chat with Ernie
> DiGregorio, one of the best to ever lace them up. His exploits with
> Providence College, are legend and only an ankle injury to Marvin
> Barnes, kept his Friars from toppling the Bill Walton/John Wooden/ UCLA
> machine, in the NCAA's.
> After making rookie of the year with Buffalo, Digregorio busted his
> knee and never became the star that his talents warranted, but he did
> contribute to one of my favorite Celtic moments. As a bench warmer for
> the C's, in the mid seventies, he rarely got off the bench, but during
> John Havlicek's last game, against Philadelphia, which we were losing
> by 17 at the half, with "Hondo" scoring about 8, Ernie was summoned to
> start the second half and get the ball to Havlicek. Get him the ball he
> did. not only did we win the game by about 25, "Jarrin John," finished
> with 44 points and "Ernie D"racked up with 17 assists. In one half.
> I always figured that it was "Red" who had kept Ernie on the bench
> during his short Celtics stint, but he told me last night, after
> reminiscing about that game, which I scored while listening at home on
> a radio, that: "It was "Satch," It was "Satch" that wouldn't play me,
> Red left everything to Sanders."
> JB
>
> Unchain My Heart !