Fwd: [Celtics' Stuff ] Joe Gallagher, finds a student.-Globe

[JB <jim_metz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: JB <jim_metz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: January 2, 2004 8:00:43 AM EST
> To: Celticsstuffgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Celtics' Stuff ] Joe Gallagher, finds a student.-Globe
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> On Jan 2, 2004, at 7:12 AM, John S. wrote:
>
>> Coach O'Brien :
>> "I don't know if there's a better 3-point-shooting team than us over
>> the last 20 games," he said. "My point is that every turnover wastes
>> a potential 3-pointer by us .........................
>> I wonder if he says this stuff on purpose , just to annoy people.
>>  
>> ps who feels better knowing coach Gallagher is hard at work. 
>>
>>  
>
>> JS33
>>  *******************
> 	John, your wry sense of humor just cracks me up. You are certainly a
> delight to read.
> 	Remember though, the rest of O'Brien's quote; a turnover could cost
> you three and the other team could make a three, for a six point
> turnaround. He is 100% correct. He knows the %'s better than anyone
> and he's seen this team ride a hail of threes to playoff victory. I
> don't mind the three if it's open and if the team is also looking to
> run and find cutters in the half court. If the defense is going to
> give you open looks from the arc and try to take away everything wlse,
> well, you'd better make them.
> 	Remember that clinching game six in the (new) Gahden, against the
> hated Sixuhs in the first round in 2002? That remains one of my most
> revered Celtics memories and I've been watching them since 1952.
> 	We were series underdogs; coming off seven or eight miserable season
> and we finally made the playoffs. We had no idea how good the team
> could be, only that we were very happy just to be playing in May.
> 	It was a very toughly contested series, with both teams showing signs
> of domination. There was no answer for Iverson. He could only  stop
> himself. Derrick Coleman was playing as well as he ever had in his
> career, Theo Ratliff was clogging the middle and Snow and McKie were
> driving daggers in the heart, whenever we thought we had the other
> guys bottled up. Most of the media  thought the Sixers were toying
> with us, but in that game, we got a bit of  a lead in the third
> quarter and then all hell broke lose, in the form of some unconscious
> three point shooting (led by Walker and McCarty) and we just dominated
> them Sixuh bums and ran them out of the place.
> 	A real thrill. Wiggles galore! We exorcised some demons that night,
> which gave the team the needed confidence to go on and rout the
> Pistons in series two.
> 	JB
> Unchain My Heart!