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Ravi

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From: owner-celtics@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-celtics@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Kim Malo
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 9:34 AM
To: GuyClinch@xxxxxxx
Cc: Celtics@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: OB wouldnt be down with 3 for 2 deal


At 08:59 AM 11/10/2003, GuyClinch@xxxxxxx wrote:
>OB considers Kedrick Brown and Eric Williams his two best defensive 
>players. Kedrick has put together excellent defensive games against 
>Hamiliton, Kittles and now Peja.

Pete, did you get a chance to watch yesterday's game or are you going by

stats? Dunno, maybe it looked differently on TV, but I was there and no
he 
did not play excellent defense on Peja IMO. He was far too often a step
or 
so behind and appeared to be playing defense with the sort of
passiveness 
he too often displays on offense. I was VERY disappointed, because I've 
seen him play smothering defense and given his offensive questions his 
defense is really why he's in the game.

And just a sidebar on that, kudos to Marcus for his defensive efforts on

Bibby, who was clearly too quick for James (who is NOT slow). James was 
also getting rubbed off far too regularly and easily on picks. The 
difference was clear when Marcus came in. Not that he didn't get beaten
on 
occasion too, but it wasn't continual and he fought to stay with Bibby
much 
better. Jiri also surprised me with some quality persistent defense and 
Pierce may have forced too many shots but played excellent D as well.

>  Those guys are bonafide scorers... Plus he LOVES Eric Williams.
>
>First of all if you actually watch Battier play you will see he is not 
>a "younger Eric Williams". That's junk..they don't play the same kind 
>of game at all. Eric Williams is a post player who gets the opposition 
>into foul trouble.

Bless you for reminding people of that underrated point though. It was
like 
a switch got flipped when EWill came into the game and immediately
started 
taking it to the hoop and getting some fouls finally called our way.
Enough 
that I figured I'd do a bit of statistical analysis around a theory
about 
that. I'll post about if anything worthwhile comes from it.

Kim