Re: Celts Deserve Loss

[CeltsSteve@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 11/17/03 7:09:21 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> Just about the dumbest call (if it was) or the dumbest shot (Pierce's 3). 
> With 10 secs left a 3 wasn't needed especially from Pierce who hasn't been 
> hitting crap and again screwing up late in the game with some ill advised 
> heroics....there was plenty of time for working the ball and a decent shot, not the 
> off balance 3 attempted.....I had bad vibes about this game anyway after the 
> Chicago fiasco....I attribute this loss to the coach OB'won......



And why did I just know that "I blame O'Brien for this loss" was going to 
come flying off someone's keyboard? 

Do you blame O'Brien for 22 assists on 30 made baskets? Do you blame O'Brien 
for the C's getting three times as many steals and 3 less TO's than the 
Knicks? Do you blame O'Brien for Baker shooting 50% from the field? Do you blame 
O'Brien for Eric Williams shooting 57% from the field?

Or do you blame O'Brien for a pathetic 14% from behind the arc on 2 - 14 
shooting? Do you blame O'Brien for the C's getting outrebounded by  9 boards and 
by 5 boards on the offensive glass? Do you blame O'Brien for the 7 missed FT's? 
  

Because if the answer to any of those is "Yes" then you damn well also better 
blame O'Brien for Pierce shooting 30% from the field on a horrific 6 - 20. 
That's right, it's all O'Brien's fault that Pierce can't throw a rock into the 
ocean. 

How much longer is the enabling going to continue where every loss is always 
O'Brien's fault and never the fault of any player(s)?
                
    
CeltsSteve