Re: Walker hears boos

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's not fair to boo players unless they are laying down on the job. Which
these guys really aren't. Their in a slump and confused. Fans should forward
their displeasure with *Management* It takes Boston a long time to wake up.
If this were NY, players and management would be history long ago.

DanF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Beauregard" <sb@maine.rr.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 7:49 AM
Subject: Walker hears boos


> Walker hears boos
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> by Mark Murphy
> Thursday, March 27, 2003
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> He checked out for good with 4:57 left, and the evening's heaviest share
of
> boos followed him to the bench.
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> Antoine Walker wasn't the only Celtic booed down the painful stretch of
last
> night's 107-95 loss to the Warriors. Every turnover and unguarded miss,
> especially the 3-point attempts, drew an expanding chorus of sourness.
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> But Walker, while struggling through his second two-point second half in
the
> last three games, seemed to wear the biggest target.
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> And yet he seemed surprised at the suggestion that the negativity,
triggered
> by the team's first six-game losing streak since Jan. 8, 2001, would
bother
> him.
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> Walker broke into a half-smile and shook his head.
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> ``No, man. You think it bothers me? It doesn't bother me. I've been around
too
> long for that,'' he said. ``We would love it as a team for them to be
> completely behind us, but that has to come.
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> ``But we're going through a tough time right now.
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> ``I'm a player, the captain of the team, and it's my job to get this team
into
> the playoffs,'' said Walker. ``If people can't get behind us and jump on
the
> bandwagon right now, that's unfortunate.
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> ``But our goal right now is to get into the playoffs.''
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> Now that the Celtics have dropped to a precarious 38-34 mark on the
season,
> this goal has become a tough sell for a particularly vocal segment of
Celtics
> Nation.
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> After watching Walker shoot 6-for-19, including 1-for-9 in the second
half, in
> addition to a 2-for-10 second half from Paul Pierce, disbelief took over.
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> But Walker, ever the optimist, is simply looking for the next win, a
process
> that has become admittedly tougher as the streak has built.
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> ``I think we pressed tonight,'' he said. ``Everyone wants to make the
> spectacular play instead of grinding out to get stops. But against
Cleveland
> (tomorrow night in the FleetCenter) we want to come out and get out to a
good
> start. And just remember, that was an unbelievable (shooting) display that
> (the Warriors) put on tonight.
>
> ``This is a good test for us. The playoffs are going to be tough like
this,
> where things aren't going to go your way. You have to be mentally tough to
> fight back, and we just have to continue to work to get better at this.
>
> ``We have 10 games left, and we just have to make some strides. First, we
have
> to make the playoffs, though.''
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> Thanks,
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> Steve
> sb@maine.rr.com
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