Re: Slip Slidin' Away...

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe his ball control problems will clear up if and when we get a point
guard. Some of it is exhaustion. He's handling the ball way to much. Not to
mention Walker..again late in the game vs. Wizards, we had key turnovers
with Walker and Pierce handling the ball. End
result................loss.............

DanF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Snoopy the Celtics Beagle" <snoopy@celticsbeagle.net>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
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Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 9:48 PM
Subject: Slip Slidin' Away...


> There's been something bothering me for some time, and last Friday--and
> today, it came into sharp focus.   Paul Pierce seems to be having more and
> more trouble keeping his footing on the court.  It's not just in Boston,
it
> happens in other places (and lets skip the driveway jokes, I'm serious
here).
>
> The way he squints more when taking a free throw, and seems to be
> measuring--and missing--shots.  We KNOW he can shoot.  We KNOW he can hit
> free throws more consistently.  The way he moved, sad to say, reminded me
> of me--the way he'd just seem to lurch over and crash to the ground, or
> seem to totally lose his dribble, seemed to me to be like a sudden loss of
> "centering"--not quite an out-and-out "dizzy spell", but just like his
> balance had been shifted off a degree or two.
>
> I may well be reading more into it than there is, and I don't have any
> medical degrees to back it up.  It's just something that keeps making me
> wonder if he's injured, or ill, in a way that nobody's talking
> about.  After all, without Pierce, the team's offense tends to take a
> nosedive.  They NEED him not just IN the playoffs, but to MAKE the
> playoffs--I haven't failed to notice they still need one more win to
clinch
> a spot.
>
> Ah well, hopefully, I'm just being a worrisome beagle.
>
> Snoopy the Celtics Beagle
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