Re: Re: Inefficient Scoring and Toine

[Kim <kimmalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm actually at a lot of the games. I don't think he plays that much differently for national boadcasts, and is actually enough of a natural play-to-the-crowd ham that he'd be apt to go the other way.

I think the disconnect is that some people slotted him permanently during his early years when he might tempt us with very brief stretches of more in control play, and they see him through that perception or concentrate on how he's not their idea of a perfect player vs seeing what's how he really looks today. Toine's always going to do things you wish he wouldn't, but he actually is a lot more mature and in control, even with things like how he treats the refs.

Kim

-------Original Message-------
From: RickDHome@AOL.com
Sent: 02/27/03 08:44 AM
To: Celtics@igtc.com
Subject: Re: Inefficient Scoring and Toine

> 
> > I occassionally suffer these brain farts after seeing Toine play the rare
> disciplined game, and start thinking that maybe it COULD happen, if he
only
> matured some more, if we got the right PG, the right center, a solid
bench. 
> But
> it's folly to be thinking this way.

I've mentioned this before to no response, so here goes again.  I only
catch 
the national telecasts, and on those, he HAS played a disciplined game, by 

and large, and has looked quite good.

Anyone who sees all the games note that perhaps he tones it down on the 
national broadcasts vs other games?  It's just kind of interesting,
because 
there's a disconnect between what I read, and what I see on those few and
far 
between national televised games.