Maybe the Celtics drove Baker to the well again. He did look impressive
early in the season and I certainly do remember the games where he was
open
time and time again with no response from the team. The new drinking
bout
did affect his play though. I wish him well but not as a Celtic. We
have
enough sober basket cases on the team now.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Lee"
I think it's sad how a lot of people have just chalked up Baker's bad
performance to his drinking. I'm just wondering if some of you people
actually watch the games instead of just reading box scores. Even
when Vin
was doing well before his last suspension, the team had a bad habit of
not
getting Vin the ball at all in the second half of games. That first
game
against the Knicks this season where he went of for 20 points, he
scored a
majority of those points in the first half, and then they'd forget
about
him. That was the pattern for alot of the games that he did well in.
And
slowly Vin just started getting the ball less and less till he was
riding
the pine. I could see the argument if he was getting the same
consistent
number of touches on the ball and he was shooting 10 percent from the
floor
but that wasn't the case. When vin was getting the ball, he was
leading the
team in field goal percentages. then Mike "I gotta get mine" James and
Waltah started the brick pa!
rade from
3 point land and that was that. Granted I don't think Vin is
completely
blameless because he did break his program compliance but it's not
fair to
just assume vin's failings on the court were due to his drinking. I
blame
Blowbie's reluctance to utilize a low post attack on a consistent
basis and
the selfish players on the team for jacking up too many 3s (and yes
Pierce
is included in that list).
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