Re: today's articles

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think OB is smoozing us. He had no control over the club except for
Network enforced timeouts. If it wasn't for Harter there'd be no defense.
This was a team that couldn't run a basic fast break. Some of the most
comical highlites of last season was the Celtic fast break where no one
including court side fans were safe..Oh yeah, he got us to the
playoffs......thanks to the determination of Pierce and Walker....they were
just set loose on the floor.

OB is probably on a can half full of oxygen with DA at the spigot. He get's
a chance now along with everyone else except Pierce.

DanF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kestutis Kveraga" <Kestutis.Kveraga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <celtics@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:05 AM
Subject: today's articles


> Some really interesting stuff today in the papers. I'm not sure I buy
Obie's
> claim that he has always detested the "my-turn-your-turn" offense of the
past
> few years and  wanted a "passing" offense for years. But whether Ainge's
> arrival and his disposal of Toine freed Obie to do what he always wanted
to do,
> or whether it simply served as a warning to get with Ainge's program or
else,
> I'm certainly liking the sound bytes emanating from Obie's mouth.
>
> As for the article on Ainge, the stories and quotes about him seem  to
directly
> contradict what Egg's been saying for months - that he's a lying,
wishwashy
> scoundrel. Like many others, I don't get that impression at all. However,
the
> "brain doctor" thing continues to bother me. Larry Bird's advice to Ainge
to
> ditch the "swami and do his own thinking" was priceless. LB is no one's
fool.
>
> Hopefully, the swami won't do too much damage (except to Grousbeck et
al.'s
> wallet). If Niednagel's as cunning as I think he is, he simply tries to
divine
> what Ainge (or any other executive he's "advising") thinks about a player
or a
> deal, and then repeats it back to him, presenting it as his own opinion
and
> lacing it with the pseudo-scientific jargon he stole from the famous
cuckoo
> Carl Jung. The enthralled executive likes what he hears and says to
himself,
> "wow, this guy really knows his stuff". It's  a simple psychological
trick -
> people like when their opinions are shared by someone else, even if
they're not
> fully aware that it's their own opinion. Then Niednagel takes credit when
his
> client turns out to be right, blames it on the poor schmuck when he's
wrong
> (giving a new meaning to the phrase "blaming the victim"), and his legend
lives
> on.The good news is, Ainge MIGHT be doing his own thinking; Niednagel just
> serves as a psychological teddy bear for him. The alternative is too scary
to
> contemplate.
>
> Kestas