RE: Steve Beauregard come on down, and other amusements from an u gly loss

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

And once again, the real Dan surfaces.  I suppose you think that Pierce
could have prevented getting his teeth knocked out somehow.

This whole notion of superstar status and fouls is foolish.  In a game such
as this, it doesn't matter who was fouled or who committed it, as long as a
foul is called when the situation warrants it.  EWill breathed on Jordan,
and a foul was called.  I saw Pierce CLEARLY hacked on a doubleteam, and it
was not called.

If the league truly, as they claim, reviews each game, how can incidents
like those go without notice?  How can they just sweep it under the carpet
and pretend that all is well within their world?  Because of chumps like us
who will spend a dollar to see their team anyway.

When Pierce got his teeth smashed against Phoenix, I sent an email to the
NBA, as did many others on this list.  Has anyone gotten a reply?  I
haven't.  I doubt that they give a rats ass about us because the league is
thriving right now.

Let's organize a one game boycott due to referee impartiality, then we'd see
what time it is!!

Cecil  


-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Forant [mailto:dforant1@nycap.rr.com]
Sent: January 07, 2003 9:24 AM
To: celtics@igtc.com
Subject: Re: Steve Beauregard come on down, and other amusements from an
ugly loss


You guys are addicted to the refs and foul situations. Jordan certainly
deserves star status. Teams shoot more f/t's because our defense sucks. We
have no one with athleticism to stop anyone. I wouldn't mind if we knocked a
few guys down but the tooth fairy would foul harder.

DanF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Malo" <kimmalo@mindspring.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 11:55 PM
Subject: Steve Beauregard come on down, and other amusements from an ugly
loss


> Yes folks, our own listmate Mr. Stephen Beauregard of Maine was part of
the
> half time show at tonight's Cs game. Unfortunately Mr Beauregard -being an
> extremely loyal Celtics fan- showed how in tune with the current bunch he
> was by missing the layup. But hope he heard and appreciated the cheers
from
> the balcony when they announced his name and I realized why he had asked
if
> anyone from the list would be at the game tonight.
>
> As for the game? *shrug*, an ugly way to lose a game but it happens.
> Leaving aside the last few bonehead plays, you could make an argument that
> this game was won at the line. Unobtrusively to me until it was pointed
out
> that the Wiz were getting 4 times the number of FT attempts as the Cs. It
> eventually 'evened' out to only twice as many, but most of the other stats
> were remarkably close so that the FT difference weighed heavily. Some of
it
> was the Cs own fault with the usual settling for outside shots, but a fair
> degree of it wasn't, including MJ still getting some superstar of
> superstars treatment. There were other ways they could have and should
have
> overcome this to win but didn't, obviously, but in a fairly even game the
> FTs mattered.
>
> Pregame shoot around was not without amusement as our newest acquisition
> took the floor. I can't tell you how relieved I was to see him NOT taking
a
> bunch of 3s. Mostly 15 footers and layups. The layups actually got amusing
> as his slamming one home seemed to inspire emulation by his new teammates
> with a run of attempted power dunks (as much power as they could generate)
> starting with JR and working it's way through a bunch of guys. I had hopes
> the might consider playing with their new toy during the game itself, but
> alas and alack...
>
> Anyway, cheers to Steve for providing the list with a celebrity for the
> night. As to the actual finalists - Steve, there were clearly ringers out
> there tonight : )
>
> Kim