Re: Just over 29 hours left before the season starts!

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have grown to actually like Pat Riley. He is a 20+yr hard working coach.
Showing signs of burn out he has made the correct decision. Mourning's
ailment did a job on Miami and Riley's future. I don't think he's a quitter,
just has nothing left..

DanF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Snoopy the Celtics Beagle" <snoopy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Celtics@xxxxxxxx>; <Celticsstuffgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:56 PM
Subject: Just over 29 hours left before the season starts!


> The season is upon us, nearly, where we start playing for real.  Jim
> O'Brien is pushing the players through their defensive drills, and Danny
is
> making them run everywhere.
>
> If anyone is going to dress up for Halloween --go as Danny's Brain Drain
> guy, he sounds pretty scary to me!
>
> I have to wonder if Pat Riley quit because he couldn't stomach coaching a
> mediocre team to another bad season.
>
> I have confidence in Vin coming off the bench.  But I still think it's too
> soon to throw him into the starting rotation, with the extra minutes
> involved.  He looked a bit tired at the end of the last couple of games.
I
> think about 20 minutes is about all he can reasonably handle for the first
> few games, especially the scheduling headache that opens the season.  Am I
> the only one around here who thinks this?
>
> I'm already annoyed at most of the "professional" sports writers/pundits
> who seem to go out of their way to take shots at the Celtics.  Not the C's
> fault the experts looked foolish for the last two seasons on the
> Celtics.  May the Good Guys do it again this season.
>
> I admit, I'm a fan of Jim O'Brien's.  I'm really hoping he proves the
> naysayers wrong this season.
>
> My major player disagreement is everyone's  (i.e. : Ainge and O'Brien)
> continued insistence on leaving Jumaine Jones on the active list.  The guy
> may be a decent player, but he missed the whole of training and
> preseason--and isn't due back for at least another week!  He's going to
> look quite bad in comparison to his teammates unless he's lucky, or the
C's
> play really, really badly.
>
> Those of you making predictions to various places, make sure you have them
> in, there's just over a day to go!
>
> Snoopy the Celtics Beagle
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