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Re: Last night

At 10:06 PM 1/29/2003 +0200, you wrote"


Although I don't recall all of Ben Wallace's 7 blocked
shots, I did see two called fouls that were clean blocks
on the replay.
Yeah, I saw those too; maybe they counted those as blocks. The refs took pity on Vinnie and put him on the foul line, even though it was a clean block by Wallace.


BTW I think the only reason Shammond is playing is to
potentially shop him. Some scout had to be there
watching. It makes no sense otherwise. Bear in mind he
was out there with Bremer part of the time, when SG is
not a position where we are shorthanded.
I have a hard time believing Obie would play someone to shop him. I think the reason was that Kedrick looked completely uninterested in the proceedings, so Obie had to play someone else to back up Pierce, because Waltuh was busy filling in SF/PF/C, and Delk was out.

I barely trust Shammond to bring the ball past midcourt,
much less get Boston's offense running. Somewhere along
the line, his confidence in his dribble completely
deserted him.
The funny thing, he's a tricky, skilled dribbler, but has a lot of trouble bringing up the ball under pressure. Whereas Bremer dribbles like Tony Battie, but has no problem under extreme pressure. I'd describe his style as 'simple but effective'. Since he started playing regular minutes, I don't think he had the ball taken away from him even once.

p.s. Regarding last night's FoxNE scoreboard, I remember
past games this year where the Fox scorekeeper actually
seemed slow in updating the score after baskets. Maybe it
wasn't the FoxNE guy (I watch on league pass, so its all
a blur), but I distinctly remember this in several games.
Last night was truly weird. Maybe the satelite feed was
delayed a split-second or something, since the score
would update before the ball touched net.
I don't think it has anything to do with the TV network. I think they have an official scorer, whose actions are fed into the network feed. I'm guessing that each arena has its own staff for this, as opposed to league-assigned game officials. Of course, I could be completely wrong about this. If anyone knows for sure, please tell us.
Anyway, the Fleet's scorer is pretty quick, but nothing like the scorer last night. In other arenas, they're sometimes very slow to update the score. I remember one game recently where the score would change tens of seconds after a basket'd been scored, then they'd get it wrong, correct it, get it wrong again to the point where I was screaming the correct score to the TV set as if it were a two-way communication device with the official scorer.
Kestas