Re: Re:on a variety of Celtics comments...

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Or............how bout playing in the dark??

DanF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shawn Niles" <shizzjr@hotmail.com>
To: <Tammo29@AOL.com>; <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 4:18 PM
Subject: 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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