Re: [Celtics' Stuff Hopes for the playoffs

[Kim Malo <kimmalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You missed one slight possible change that could help. Passing -overall, 
not just his own- has noticeably improved when Bimbo's been put in to run 
the game, unfortunately usually during garbage time. Give him more of a 
role in running the offense, particularly as we move into the playoffs. 
Honestly, the biggest difference between the Nets and us is Kidd running 
the offense - his own play, but more importantly the fact that he makes it 
AN OFFENSE, where we have too much schoolyard/take it one on one. They've 
got some other nice players, but he leaves this year as a FA and they'll 
have a precipitous dropoff. That's why Bimbo could make more difference 
than you might think from what I've seen.
Other than that I agree on matchups being key and which ones give us the 
best shot

At 11:11 AM 3/19/2003 -0500, Celtic4Hire@aol.com wrote:
> Frustrating to watch the Cs play the Nets. You just have to conclude that we
> don't have enough. The Nets have good defenders at all positions other than
> center. They pass well which, in addition to fast breaking, seems to be the
> antithesis to Harter's defense. Then we have our offensive problems that have
> been well documented: you got an offensive threat in PP, sometimes a threat
> in Twan and then the roll the dice three point shooting....
>
> At this juncture, we have four hopes in the playoffs:
>
> 1) We stay in the 4/5 spot and Detroit stays in the 1 spot. I feel we match
> up well with Indy, NO and Detroit. That could get us to the ECFs playing
> either Philly or the Nets. Hopefully Philly would take out the Nets who I
> think we match up better with.
Kim