Re: This line bothers me...

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well said, a lot of Walkerite's just don't understand the fundamental
meaning of this post. Walker's lazy and a gunner with a lousy average.

God forbid if LaFrentz has a few early off games, we'll never hear the end
of it.

DanF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ellie Cutler" <ellie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Celtics List" <celtics@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: This line bothers me...


> Well, no, LaFrentz's game is nothing like Antoine's.  Aside from that,
> you're forgetting (along with most of the all the non-Boston writers) the
> addition by subtraction part of Antoine's game. He takes over 20 shots a
> game and makes only a few of them. That's a bunch of shots that somebody
> else could take who would make *more* than a few of them.  I laughed when
I
> saw the writers rub their hands with glee at the thought of adding another
> 20+ ppg scorer to Dallas. Antoine needs 30 shots to get that done. If he
> takes 30 shots in the Dallas offense, their team point production goes
> south (not to mention their chemistry).   If he doesn't, he's not adding
> that many points to the Dallas offense.  He'll be great with them if he
> passes and takes and makes selective shots.
>
>   --Ellie
>
> At 02:22 PM 10/21/2003 , Frederick Hurley wrote:
> >On 10/21/03 7:50 AM, Stephen Beauregard wrote:
> >
> > > ""But he'll help the Celtics," Nelson predicted. "He can shoot the
> > three. We
> > > had Dirk at his position, so he couldn't get enough time in our
lineup.
> > He's
> > > not strong enough at any one thing to [displace] our guys. They'll get
more
> > > out of him than we did." -- NOw that Twoine is gone, aren't we going
to
> > a more
> > > traditional offense with more inside offense and FEWER 3's?
> >
> >So basically, LaFrentz's game is JUST like Antoine Walker's.  He's just
not
> >as good at it as Walker is.  But on the upside, he IS under contract for
a
> >while yet.  Great.