Re: Misdirected E-mail #2/Take a deep breath all

["Cecil" <cecil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Lance Jacobson
>
> Sorry if it bothers you, but Tammo calling Pierce a guy who gets teammates
involved is
> ridiculous, and then she asserts that he gets criticized for it.
>
Perhaps in your mind.  I saw Paul making an effort to get his teammates
involved during the world championships.  He made several nice passes to
teammates for easier baskets.  I guess you missed them.

> Come on Cecil.  You know better than that.  For all PP's skills, passing,
or
> willingness to pass is not one of them.  Or is there another way that he
gets them
> involved, perhaps as he yelled to Andre Miller from the bench not to
dribble so much?
> This is the inspiring support that he's giving to the team and that Andre,
along with
> us Celtic fans should be grateful for?

See above.  And since when is Andre Miller supposed to be the poster boy for
teamsmanship?  He couldn't hit the broad side of a barn but kept firing away
in the championships.


>
> Yeah, it's adversarial.  When Tammo writes that Kenny was disruptive to
the team and a
> negative force during his tenure, it's a cheap shot at a player whose
every on-court
> action was pro-team.  I challenge her to find examples that contradict
team play.  She
> fuels this fire by pointing out that Paul gets criticized for his
aggressiveness, as
> well as his "team play", which I take to mean standing still at the arc.

Oh so you are being adversarial.  I thought it was my mistake.
>
> Besides whining about not getting the ball in the Philly series, how about
the fact
> that PP was standing around so much in the playoffs that Twan had to swear
at him to
> get in the game, even though he was on the court?  Twan didn't ask him to
score, he
> told Pierce that he needed to get aggressive to force the opponent to
cover him.
> Pretty basic stuff, and an embarrassment that a co-captain has to be woken
up by a
> teammate.

Yeah, that's first in the NBA.  Ever hear of Kobe and Shaq?  Iverson never
yells at his teammates at all.  Neither does Michael.  Larry never got in
his teammates faces and challenged them ever...did he?  You are making the
guy out to be worse than Laimbeer.

>
> But, it's just the posters who critique Mr. Pierce.  Add O'Brien, George
Karl, and
> this week, Peter May.  It's not just me, Cecil, but the emperor has no
clothes and
> I've got 20-20 vision.
>
Peter May.  Now that's impressive.

Cecil