Re: [Celtics' Stuff Celtics/Hawks review

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Snoop, good answer. In the movie Roomates, the Polish Grandfather said
several times, *this discussion is over* Some threads just have to be cut.

DanF

----- Original Message -----
From: <snoopy1@pig.net>
To: <Celticsstuffgroup@yahoogroups.com>; <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Celtics' Stuff Celtics/Hawks review


> At 10:58 PM 11/24/02 -0500, Lance Jacobson wrote:
> >Hey, Snoop, before your next cookie break, PMS break or "free to change
my
> >mind break",
>
> Just to clarify, I'm not eligible for a PMS break.  In case anyone was,
you
> know...wondering.  :>)
>
> >I'll send the following message.  Pierce is still and egotistical jerk,
> >who's either in a slump, a furrow, a ditch, a rut, a hollow or a gutter.
>
> I'd ask how low you can go here, but the irony might be lost on you...
>
> >  Choose the word, but he's being defended as a scorer, and not
responding
> > by passing but by shooting bad shots.  So, save your cookie from your
> > next cookie break and stuff it up his a**.
>
> This in a season where his assists stats went UP.  And I would never waste
> a cookie that way.  I wonder why you feel a need to advocate such a
violent
> action.  What, did you bet the house on Pierce?
>
> >  Hope I'm being clear here, Cookie man.  The guy thinks the team
revolves
> > around him and he's being snuffed.  We're getting to the point of trying
> > to figure out if the team can withstand his passes, since we can't stand
> > his shooting.  Hope I'm still being clear.  Ultimately, for 40+ minutes
> > per game, he's a liability.
>
> You're clear.  Wrong, but clear.  What's with this "we" business
> anyway?  When I agree with you,  I'll let you know.
>
> >  Need another cookie break?  Feel free.  You don't have to apologize for
> > the guy, but don't call him a passer, dribbler, defender or shooter, at
> > least not at those percentages.
>
> Well, Gee, you must think Coach O'Brien is an unmitigated idiot then, to
> keep playing him, instead of yanking J.R Bremer off the bench and having
> him start in Pierce's place.
>
> >  Have another cookie and find a hydrant, Snoop, if you can't hold your
> > water.
>
> Lay off the personal cracks, Lance.  Lest I decide to waste a cookie in a
> way you won't find comfortable.
>
> >  The guy is a selfish pain in the ass and he finds one guy per game to
> > embarrass and has ended up on the weak on of his taunts.  My grandmother
> > has shot a better percentage, and boxed out her man more often.  Time to
> > jump off the bandwagon and start driving the collection vehicle for the
> > dog pound.  This guy's a stray.
>
> Well, hey then--call grandma up and tell her Obie has a job for her.  At
> least she'll only get the League minimum and that'll free up cap room.
>
> I don't mind so much that you don't like Pierce--I don't even mind that
you
> don't seem to have a coherent reason for it--sometimes people just rub you
> the wrong way, or something.
>
> But you're taking it to an unreasonable extreme and compounding your
> offensiveness by attacking anyone who disagrees with you.  I've run into
> that sort of thing before, and I've never been one to play target for
> someone's inability to debate something without taking personal
> potshots.  If you can't communicate without being so rude and nasty, then
> don't bother to communicate at all.
>
> I'm not insisting that you "see the light" and become a member of the Paul
> Pierce fan club.  Do me the same courtesy and stop badgering me to agree
> with you when you KNOW that's not going to happen.
>
> There's a BIG difference between having differing points of view and
> turning an intelligent, entertaining debate into yet another useless flame
war.
>
> Far as I'm concerned, THIS discussion is OVER.