Re: Celts Deserve Loss

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I assume it was OB's call for the play Pierce botched....if you read the
post I didn't blame OB for all that went wrong....take a gulp and re-read
the post....

DanF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: Celts Deserve Loss


> 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