Re: The Boston Celtics Mailing List Digest V9 #271

["hironaka@xxxxxxxxx"<hironaka@xxxxxxxxx>]

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(snip)"Meanwhile for assists,in his 213 minutes he got 
35, while Andre got 37 in 198 and Baron got 36 in 187.   
With all that shooting (he took 111 shots, next guy took 
94 in more minutes.  Only Andre turned the ball over 
more, as well--18 to 17."

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Lance, I'm wondering to what purpose you chose to 
highlight the stat (pasted above) demonstrating that Paul 
Pierce actually had a better assist-turnover ratio 
(slightly) than the starting USA pointguard, Andre 
Miller? 

If you are saying that Paul Pierce will never be a good 
NBA pointguard, I'm still with you. Definitely true. 

But it seems like you applied these stats to further an 
argument singling out Paul Pierce for blame in the 
tournament. You may recognize that such an argument has 
some holes.

FWIW of course, I think some of your posts are thoroughly 
interesting, but I also feel some posts (not all) can be 
unnecessarily (or deliberately?) extreme, to the point of 
losing all persuasive influence. Maybe this was one 
example. No big deal. 


Joe H.


p.s (Don't read if you don't like preaching) but I think 
the current controversy is more that you've slipped in 
some wholly avoidable personal-sounding jabs at list 
members in the course of addressing basketball-related 
opinions, and now its escalated further even though both 
sides, hopefully, recognize how tiresome it is. 

Not entirely tiresome (some of it makes me laugh out 
loud), but I doubt any of us need to see it continue. Its 
avoidable, certainly. Soon they'll be actual substance to 
discuss. I'm looking forward to this season, like none 
other in recent memory.



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