Re: To CB--No, not Charlie Brown...

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> From    : owner-celtics@igtc.com
> To      : "Shawn Niles" <shizzjr@hotmail.com>, 
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> Cc      : <Celticsstuffgroup@yahoogroups.com>
> Date    : Tue, 21 Jan 2003 12:34:19 -0500
> Subject : Re: To CB--No, not Charlie Brown...
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> At the half. Didn't Charles say something like if Bird 
or McHale were here
> they'd turn over in their graves. If he did it was a 
miss-speak, their
> alive!!
> 
> DanF
> 

I admire Charles Barkley, and especially loved him as a 
player, but I think he is overrated in his current job. 

He does zero homework or research (which annoys me), 
rarely contributes insights about basketball (which 
surprises me), and his overall half-ass approach to his 
job leads him to make asinine and self-indulgent ad lib 
comments of no value. 

I think he's living off everyone's expectation/assumption 
that he is a truly interesting personage. We know he is 
THE Charles Barkley, so he can't be that terrible on the 
job.

In terms of overhyped and overrated, I'd rank him below 
Dickie V (I can't help liking him, but he's an actual 
buffoon). 

Vitale's shtick may be shrill and annoying on occasion, 
but at least he doesn't mail it in like Barkley has been 
doing. And kids probably like Dickie V. He's so damn 
enthusiastic and has a kind word about everyone and every 
player.

The above is totally FWIW. You could probably care less 
what I think about Charles Barkley!

Anyway, here are a couple of actual Celtics-related 
thoughts. 

One is that if NJ loses to Sacto again tonight, Boston 
will have miraculously made up a lot of the ground we 
gave up since the X-mas massacre. Boston could be just 
four games off the race for the number one playoff seed, 
as opposed to eating dust a week ago.

Second, Boston has to realize they were as lucky as they 
were good in the past three fourth quarters. The Celtics 
can't keep turning it on and off like they've been doing. 
We got a reprieve against Philly, but we need to play 
much better and harder to keep winning.

Wednesday's opponent, Milwaukee, is one of the stronger 
road teams (9-12) and they seem to have the revenge-
minded Paul Pierce's number so far this year.

Another thing to note is that the Bucks are just 1.5 
games behind nose-diving Philly for a playoff seed. Let's 
keep things that way, if we are interested in getting 
Philly's pick in the draft.

Lastly, in case others haven't mentioned it (I didn't yet 
read every weekend post) the Celtic have just reached the 
official halfway mark of the NBA season.

Through 41 games, Boston has 24 wins (thus a 48-win pace 
on paper). We are also 5-5 in January.

Yesterday, I was mistaken in writing that Boston has not 
had a losing month all year. In fact, they were 0-2 in 
October.

But a +.500 month of January would make it three straight 
winning months, a mark of consistency. It may surprise 
some people, but Boston was actually above .500 in 
December (9-7) despite losing all four Wednesday night 
games (we're 2-0 so far this month).

Let's hope to see a complete 48-minute effort against 
Milwaukee and a clean win over George Karl. Remember that 
we finish the month next week with two tough games 
against Detroit, and that Boston's game this Friday is 
against the #2 scoring defense in the NBA I believe, even 
though it is the lotto-bound Chicken McNuggets.

Joe H.


 

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