Re: Making Tommy Heinsohn happy

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OB has to figure out just what he has at this point and it will take 10-20
games into the season to figure out what works. I'm not so sure you can have
a running game without a bonifide point guard. We can get by with these but
running??

DanF

----- Original Message -----
From: <snoopy1@pig.net>
To: <Celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 8:50 AM
Subject: Making Tommy Heinsohn happy


> Today's Globe article by Shira Springer quotes Coach O'Brien as saying
that
> the team "wants to run".  Unfortunately, he is also quoted as saying they
> could be a "devastating 3-point shooting team".  Hopefully it'll be
> devastating as in "the layup was blocked, so they nailed the three" as
> opposed to "they shot a worse percentage of threes than ever before".
>
> I'm nervous that what O'Brien is saying seems to be two completely
> different things.  In one paragraph, he's talking about fast breaks and
> easy layups.  The next, about using the three.  Same team, same game.
>
> Now I don't mind the three in moderation--when I played, it was against
> people MUCH bigger and taller then me, and I made a living out at the
> arc--but this team should be able to get inside more often and more
> effectively.  We no longer need to rely on the three for so much of our
> offense.
>
> We'll just have to wait and see what happens, I guess.  I'll be happy if
> tonight's game is less foul-plagued than the last game in NY.
>
> Ok, Ok---I'll be happy if we win.  However ugly it may be, a win is a win.
:>)
>
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