B2B weekend

["hironaka@xxxxxxxxx"<hironaka@xxxxxxxxx>]

Its hard to deny this turned into the biggest weekend of 
the season for Boston. You had two opponents coming in 
with a combined 11 game win streak. One was the number 
one seed in the East, the other had won seven straight 
over Boston at home. 

Boston had a 50-assist weekend (with 91 rebounds), which 
is pretty basketball. Indiana is blowing up opponents 
inside (and in transition), but we dominated them at what 
they were best at.

This was also gut check "Celtics Pride" basketball. 

Boston somehow overcame a 19-2 run mostly in the fourth 
by Indiana, and an 11-0 run in the 4Q by Milwaukee. And 
we won without Tony Battie and also Delk, easily the 
third and fourth best players on the team, with a big 
dropoff after that.

The weekend results shows you can never jump off the 
bandwagon with these guys. 

Boston is actually one win away from climbing back to a 
48-win pace, two straight wins from getting ahead of last 
year's ECF team. Considering how we've struggled, that's 
something positive.  

The next job is to pull out an over .500 month in 
January, the toughest month on the 2002-03 schedule 
(although February is tough too). Boston has not had a 
sub-.500 month this season. We are 4-5 now in January, 
with six games left, after a 1-5 start. They've got to 
keep on fighting like dogs to the All Star break. 

I wish games like tonight were a lock, but nothing can 
come easy for Boston this year talent-wise, as we 
continually struggle to find ways to win. NBA teams like 
Philly still look awesome on paper, but Boston has 
separated itself from the main chase group by being 
mentally stronger up to this point. Go Celts!

Joe H.





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