I'm sitting here at my computer looking for the cancel account button
with
audio league pass as the Celtics are losing by 17. Vin Baker has gone
back
a year, (source of concern), and I am getting that same sinking
agonizing
feeling all over again. For the past few games, real networks has
disconnected the stream during the broadcast just as the Celtics have
disconnected any continuity in their play. I'm switching to the
Phoenix
broadcast and classy Al McCoy and Cotten Fitzsimmons are saying that
the
Celtics won't go away. Well, they don't.
Now it's the end of the 3rd and we are tied. I gave up looking for the
cancel button, the stream is back and so is the continuity and flow in
play.
Still concerned about Baker but the rock in my guts is lessening and I
am
beginning to think that there's a future with this team. They can play
together. One thing that is certain though is that as Paul Pearce
goes, so
do the Celts.
There is an uneasiness of young teams though; the same kind of feeling
that
you would get if jason the guard Williams, Memphis, ran your team. The
stability that you felt when Antoine, Eric, and even Tony Battie
instilled
is gone; this is a different time. We may be back a bit in terms of
experience but O'Brien is more of a stabilizing influence than Pitino.
O'Brien will judge a player's worth on basketball smarts not basketball
hype. Just hope Danny has the same sense to wait for these young
players to
mature. I know that such patience is hard to find; I almost gave them
up
to-night.
As I keep writing, they are playing well, It's now 5"21 left thanks
Sean,
and the Celtics can go up by double digits. I certainly liked the way
Mike
James played during the 5-game streak but I think Marcus Banks is the
future
of this team and he will inherit the job before the year is out. The
lead
is 9. I'd better continue on because the lead is now 5. You want to
say in
your heart that no matter what happens,, they played well and can be
excused
if it should get away from them but you know that as a fan, it would
hurt.
Mark Blount is playing incredibly. Banks just fouled out; that's okay
though for to get 6 fouls, he had to be very active and he was. This
was a
signature game for him. He clamped down on Marbury.
Well, it's crunch time and the lead is 4. Harvey just made it 3.
Time for
the OB defense. Think of the future as Jacobson, who could have been
the
pick makes one of 2. 51 seconds to go and how can you have a
confident team
when the refs are killing you? Tied and time out.
As the commercials come on I am thinking whether I would feel worse if
they
lost going away or lost after making such a valiant effort. I think
as a
Celtic fan, I would feel just awful either way. Screaming, Mike
james, Mike
James, did I say he would be the point guard for the rest of the year?
who
knows and who knows? A 3-pointer who but Max and everybody else had
the
same feeling. Just like the Philly game. What a sequence, a 3 by
Pennie,
and Ricky Davis just hit a 2 from the corner. It's not about Boston or
Phoenix any more, it's the NBA and about basketball. 2.8 left, Welsch
knocked the ball out, throw in, deflected, it's over. It's all over.
It's
over.
I am drained and will now hit send. Enjoy and thank you for looking
at my
ponderings.
Richard
Richard Quan
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