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Re:on a variety of Celtics comments...

Just had a thought about officiating. Obviously it could never work, but wouldn't it be interesting if the players identities were disguised somehow during the games. What if the refs didn't know who each player was but only knew what team they played for.

(For instance, if the players had to wear masks or something. Again, I know it would never work because the refs could still make out body types and whatnot; no one is going to confuse Shaq for Tony Battie. But just go with my premise here for a minute.)

How quickly do you think the 'star' players would foul out? How many more fouls would a guy like Kobe or T-Mac or Shaq or Kidd get called on them if the refs didn't know who they were? What about Jordan? I guarantee you he wouldn't have gone 10 years without fouling out or however long it was.

Then, if you flip it arounf the other way, how drastically would their scoring averges go down? I think of the touch fouls Kobe gets (like on his 3-pointer the other night). No way would Jordan have averaged the same amount of points over his career.

Any thoughts?



From: Tammo29@AOL.com
To: celtics@igtc.com
Subject: Re:on a variety of Celtics comments...
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 13:30:57 EDT

>Speaking of hard and fast, I reiterate that the C's should be careful of
>how the physical game is established in tonight's game. The Pacers have no
>reason to hold back, and with Artest out there, perhaps Pierce should wear
>a helmet.

Snoop, I've worried about this too.
We don't get much NBA talk locally, since we have no NBA team here in KC.
So what I get is from the national media. What I've been hearing from them,
besides how the Pacers are falling apart, is that Artest is a clown for
complaining about not getting the defensive player of the year award and that
this series with the Celtics is proving that he is an overrated defender.
Now, anyone who has actually watched the series in it's entirety and not just
snippets on the highlight shows knows that Artest has been a tough defender.
The points that Paul has gotten have not come easily.
Plus, the officials seem to let Artest get away with things your typical
defender would be called for....just ask Mercer and Harrington....I assume
because of reputation which seems to guide everything officials do these
days.

If Artest has heard even half of this stuff, I have no doubt he will be on
the warpath tonight with something to prove and, as you say, he has nothing
to lose.
He already has the reputation of being crazy. If he goes off the deep end it
will only add to his persona which the national media just soaks up.
As things stand now, the Pacers are done in this series. It's just a matter
of when and where. From what I've seen of Artest he isn't a dirty player per
say, but he also isn't above taking things into his own hands when given the
opportunity.
I just hope the officials make it clear from the outset that they won't stand
for any shenanigans. Up till now they've treated him with kid gloves in this
series.

>NBAtv.com--as of now (12:26pm EDT), still no word, still no channel. Bleah
>to the NBA for trying to play hardball with the cable companies, and double
>bleah to Cox Cable for not telling people what happened. Triple bleah to
>>both of them if I miss tonight's game and the C's win it here.

I promise you, if the Celtics win this game tonight and you don't get to
see it, I'll send you a copy of my tape.
We are going out for an early dinner since it's my birthday. But I told my
husband in no uncertain terms we have to be back by 8:20 (we are on central
time here) because I'm not missing a minute of this game tonight.


TAM

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