RE: Making Tommy Heinsohn happy

["Hastings, David" <David.Hastings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Boston Herald gave more insight into what OB was planning.

He's planning to run the ball, but if the defense gets there first they players are supposed to flip the ball out to the trailing players who launch the 3.

It might work but as Dan says now is the time for experimentation.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Forant [mailto:dforant1@nycap.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 9:18 AM
To: Celtics@igtc.com
Subject: Re: Making Tommy Heinsohn happy


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.
:>)
>
> Snoopy the Celtics Beagle
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