Re: [Celtics' Stuff ] Re: CBS Sportsline Pacers Column

[Celtic4Hire@xxxxxxx]

Hardoo,
I don't want to quibble with you. However, I will try to explain my 
reasoning. My statements  of under achievement or on par are time dependent. I think 
the Cs should have had a better record than what they ended up with in the 
regular seaons, therefore, underacheivement in the regular season. I thought they 
were better than Indiana (regardless of what happened in the regular season) 
and did so in the playoffs, which is what I expected, therefore, they performed 
on par during the playoffs.

In your argument, you seem to indicate you feel the regular season is a true 
indication of the quality of the team. Therefore, if a lower ranked team 
defeats a higher ranked team in the playoffs, it is a upset. I don't agree. The 
regular season has many ups and downs and only give a very general quality of the 
team. Everything is different in the postseason.  It is generally assumed 
that if a lower ranked beats a higher ranked team in the playoffs, they were 
better anyways since they won it when the chips were down. As the saying goes, 
"That's why they play the game" (instead of giving out awards for the best 
regular season record). I really don't think you want to argue that the postseason 
isn't necessary to sort out who really is the best....

As for not believing that we have two of the top 25 players in the league, 
both PP and Twan were in the all-star game and were selected by the coaches, who 
should know. Do the math.....In your best Rodney Dangerfield, "Man, Twan 
doesn't get any respect, no respect at all".....

Egghead, 
Warning: Lower your humor frequency about 10 Hertz......

DJessen33


> I don't see how this paragraph follows from the first.  In the first 
> paragraph, you clearly state, "I think we underachieved."  In the second, 
> you seem to 
> suggest that we overachieved by beating "a better ranked team like Indiana." 
>  
> I agree with that Fabio who wrote the second paragraph.  I don't think that 
> the upset was all Thomas' fault; however, I do agree that it was an upset.  
> The 
> short series with greater rest between games negated their advantage in 
> depth 
> and gave us more energy with which to run for easy baskets.  Compound those 
> factors with Indiana's poor chemistry and Thomas' poor coaching, and you 
> have an 
> upset for an overachieving Celtics team.
> 
> P.J.Heff