Re: Majordomo results and other thoughts

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What game plan, the Celts never, never, never had one all year except bomb
away. Now they're trying to look somewhat like a normal NBA team and guess
what? They don't have the brains or the bodies to do it. Go back to the
bombs.

DanF

----- Original Message -----
From: <Tammo29@AOL.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: Majordomo results and other thoughts


> >One more point. The Nets still have a chip on their shoulder. They still
> feel as >though the Celtics think they are a better teams and that the
recent
> beatings are a >fluke. You could tell that from Martin's comments after
the
> game as well as other >comments the Nets have made. The thing is, they are
> right. The Celts DO think >they are a much better team. They DO think
these
> recent wins are flukey. You >could tell that in Pierces comments after the
> game ("guys over there are just >playing over their heads"). - Shawn Niles
>
>
>
> First of all, wrong guy.
> Here are the quotes from Pierce and Walker after the game:
>
> ****Pierce/Herald
> ``We're playing into their hands,'' Pierce said. ``We're not executing
> our game plan. For some reason they have our number. We turn the ball
> over when we play them an extreme number of times. They run the fast
> break; we don't get back for some reason. We know the things that hurt
> us against them and we continue to let them do it.''
>
> ``We're not forcing things on defense like we did a year ago,'' Pierce
> said. ``They're just attacking, attacking us and they're not afraid to
> take the ball to the hoop. A year ago teams were afraid to take
> the ball to the hoop, now they feel like they can take it any time they
> want.
>
> ``Somewhere between now and when the playoffs start, it can't be that
> way. We're going to have to get it together.''
>
>
> ****Walker/ Herald:
> ``For some apparent reason, when we play this team we turn the
> basketball over. We do things that are uncharacteristic of ourself. We
> beat them 3-1 last year in the season, and it didn't mean anything.
> They went to the Finals (beating the Celts in six in the Eastern
> Conference finale). So we've just got to carry that mentality if we
> meet them in the playoffs. They dominated us this season through the
> regular season. Give them a lot of credit. They played well. I think a
> couple of their guys played over their heads when they played against
> us, making shots.''
>
>
>
> Secondly, I have to disagree with the notion that the Celtics think they
are
> the better team.  They probably felt that way going into last years
playoffs.
> They may even have felt that way to start this season.  But I don't think
> they still feel that way as a team.
> At the same time, every team has to go into games thinking they CAN win no
> matter who they are going up against, how many times they've been beaten,
or
> by how much.   Some of that may come out sounding like over confidence or
> arrogance.
>   I would be angry if my team went in thinking they were beaten before the
> game even started.
>
>
> Game thoughts..........
>
> * I don't think it should be glanced over that we were 1 of 21 between
Delk,
> Bremer, Williams and McCarty.  You aren't going to be in many games with
> numbers like that.
>
> ** Paul is correct about our defense not be aggressive enough against the
> Nets.
> We had three steals, two by Pierce and one by Delk, and one blocked shot,
> Pierce.  The Nets had 11 steals and 5 blocks spread out amongst 8
different
> players.
> If other players on the court aren't going to score, we at least need them
to
> play ferocious defense and hustle their butts off.
> I didn't see that from anyone other than Battie and that wasn't until the
> game was pretty much decided.
>
> *** Scott tried early to play Pierce more straight up, only throwing
doubles
> at him if he started to drive. It didn't work.  He then went back to
throwing
> two and three defenders at him before he could even catch the ball.
> O'Brien has still not figured out a way to deal with this and more and
more
> coaches have decided it's the best way to beat this team.  It's especially
> effective when the rest of the team is shooting 31%.
>
> ****I'm really not sure what O'Brien was thinking defensively.  Long,
Battie
> and Walter taking turns on Jefferson?  Antoine guarding Aaron Williams?
> Battie on Martin at times?
> He must not have the same high regard for Kedrick's defense as most
Celtics
> fans do, since you would think Brown on Jefferson would have been an ideal
> matchup.
>
> ***** I know Tommy was screaming for Pierce to get down the court and post
up
> before the defense could be set. The funny thing was when Tommy was doing
all
> the screaming Paul was doing this consistently and not getting the ball.
One
> time early in the game Pierce was down there with Jefferson on his back
and
> no one else within a mile.  Bremer was bringing the ball up on the same
side
> of the court, got within about 12 feet, looked right at him and then for
some
> unknown reason pulled the ball out and went to Antoine who was coming up
on
> the other side of the court, only for Antoine to pull up and miss a three
> pointer.
> Very disturbing since at the time Paul was having his way with the Nets
> defense.
>
> TAM