Herald: Barkley zings Pierce, Walker

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Barkley zings Pierce, Walker 
by Jim Baker 
Wednesday, February 5, 2003

Charles Barkley, warming up for TNT's 12-hour NBA All-Star 
weekend package, yesterday criticized Celtic All-Stars 
Paul Pierce and Antoine Walker in saying ``it's 
unfathomable to me that any NBA team could trail in a game 
by 60 points.

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``Pierce and Walker are really good, but they still take 
too many 3-point shots . . . and that leads to peaks and 
valleys no matter how great you are,'' said Barkley, who 
called it an additional shock that the C's could ``trail 
by 60 at home'' in last Friday's 118-66 rout by Detroit.

``I played on some dog teams, but I never heard of an NBA 
team being own by 60. Of course I was surprised . . . But 
it was a big mistake trading Kenny Anderson. You get no 
easy baskets. And if you live by 3's, you die by 3's.''

Magic Johnson interjected that when a team shoots up to 25 
percent of its attempts from 3-point range ``it's no good 
and as an (opposing) team member, that makes you know what 
they're going to do.''

Fox Sports New England has the Seattle-C's game at 7 
tonight with ex-Celtic and Boston College guard Dana 
Barros a postgame guest. Tom Heinsohn will return as 
analyst, sending Cedric Maxwell back to WWZN radio.

Magic and Barkley underscored the special appeal of 
Michael Jordan's final All-Star Game Sunday, the first on 
cable and in prime-time.

``Michael is the greatest NBA player (ever) and Bill 
Russell is the greatest winner,'' said Johnson. Barkley 
said his all-time all-NBA team is Jackson, Magic, Russell, 
Oscar Robertson and Kevin McHale (``he's the best forward 
I played against'').