Re: [Celtics' Stuff ] Re: Bucks game #2

[lapdoggy <lapdoggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's nice to see that the Pierce bashing yahoo's occasionally spill 
over to this board. There is no point in arguing the merits of Pierce's 
skills with any of those guys. It was obviously upsetting to see Paul 
miss the FT's at the end of the game, but God forbid anyone that "spins 
on Paul's behalf".
Of course this coming from someone, who part of a small pack, dissects 
Pierce's every move. Talk about spinning, good gosh.
I still contend that if Pierce was traded instead of Walker this would 
be a 20-25 win team at most. Walker has 3 all stars along side of him 
now, his glaring weakness's aren't going to show up quite as brightly 
as they did in Boston. Though Dallas fans are already getting tired of 
his out of control selfish shenannigans.
Given the circumstances Pierce is doing a great job of carrying this 
team along early on. The C's haven't lost any games by 52 points this 
year, and though they've had some tough losses, they've been in every 
game.
In this case, sour grapes would be more suitable for a nice honey, mint 
and lemon marinated fruit salad.




On Sunday, November 30, 2003, at 09:13  AM, Celtic4Hire@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Steve,
> It is bush league to be critical of PP for missing the free throws 
> that would
> have tied the game. I don't know of any player who was 100% accurate 
> from the
> line. The miss can come at any time.  I remember Bird and Ainge both 
> missing
> a critical free throw to lose a game during the playoffs. That is just 
> the way
> it goes. I say the same thing if it was PP or Bruno Sundog. You just 
> don't
> want to put yourself in a situation where you are behind and have to 
> make free
> throws to get back to a tie.....
>
> DJessen33
>
> << Raider,
>
>  I don't think it had any effect on him whatsoever.
>
>  He shot 4 - 7 from behind the arc  or 57% and for the entire game he 
> shot 7
> -
>  14 from the field or 50%.
>
>  He was 3 - 8 from the FT line or 37.5% including the two decisive 
> misses
> with
>  the game on the line in the waning seconds.
>
>  How was it that his hurt hand allowed him to shoot 20 percentage 
> points
>  better with a defender in his face from at least 23 ' 9" away than he 
> did
>  uncontested from 15 feet away?
>
>  It goes back to his first year under Pitino when he missed a couple 
> of FTs
>  also with the game on the line. Yeah, he is shooting 88% for the 
> season so
> far
>  when there has been little or no pressure. But in a pressure packed, 
> game on
>  the line situation, I don't have a lot of confidence in him knocking 
> down
> "must
>  have" FTs.
>
>  I think you are trying to spin on Paul's behalf here, Raider.  He 
> missed two
>  huge FTs that would have tied the game. I wish he would have said in 
> today's
>  paper something like "Yeah, I missed those FTs.  I missed 5 FTs for 
> the game
>  and that really hurt our chances."
>
>  But instead, what we got from him was "We needed to get stops 
> defensively in
>  the 4th quarter."
>
>  Well, yes, Paul that is true.  But "we" also need you as the captain 
> and go
>  to guy in the 4th quarter to make your FTs when the game is on the 
> line and
> the
>  pressure is so thick you can cut it with a knife. That's why they pay 
> you
> the
>  big bucks (Oops. No pun intended)
>
>  CeltsSteve  >>