RE: All-star madness

["Wright, Cecil" <Cecil.Wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Strange to make a comparison between taking balls off a rack and shooting them uncontested, and a game situation.  An enormous difference, no?

Anyway, I thought Isiah was an idiot as well, but I could not care less about Toine and Paul riding the pine.  I think it serves us better for the second half this way.  No they experienced exactly what the Celtic Mystique has done to some of those former players in the past.  Now they can use that as impetus and inspiration to take their play to another level.

I'm willing to bet that their teammates were not too happy to see Thomas treat their captains in such a disrespectful manner.

Personally, I was glad Toine didn't get a lot of minutes so he could rest the knee.

Cecil  

-----Original Message-----
From: Kestas [mailto:kkv@dartmouth.edu]
Sent: February 09, 2003 8:24 PM
To: celtics@igtc.com
Subject: Re: All-star madness


At 10:13 PM 2/8/2003 -0800, you wrote:

>Hopefully he wasn't looking forward to Antione winning the 3point shoot 
>out. It was funny hearing Magic and Ainge say the Twan wasn't a shooter 
>but a scorer. Then what the heck was he doing in the 3point contest?

It was a ploy to get him to stop taking so many threes by letting him fall 
flat on his face in the contest :)
Seriously, though, not to draw too stong a conclusion from this, but you 
saw the difference between a true 3-point shooter, like Peja or Person, and 
a guy who likes to jack them up despite his obvious lack of skill for it. 
And please don't tell me that he's a good shooter compared to Tony Battie 
or the average fan - I know that.  Three-point shooting should be a 
judiciously applied weapon in Toine's arsenal with his current skill level, 
not the drug of abuse it has become. He's simply not good enough to be 
shooting the 3 at this rate. But we all know that nothing will change while 
Obie is the coach, because he has no power to stop it, and Toine is unable 
to stop on his own. So this gambling addiction will continue.
Kestas