Fwd: [Celtics' Stuff ] "?O'Brien's system is... more free form..."-Herald

[JB <jim_metz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: JB <jim_metz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: January 2, 2004 7:42:46 AM EST
> To: Celticsstuffgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Celtics' Stuff ] " O'Brien's system is...more free
> form..."-Herald
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> On Jan 2, 2004, at 6:08 AM, JB wrote:
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> From Mark Murphy; in today's Herald:
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>> { He (Ricky Davis) likes the system better, too. Jim O'Brien's
>> passing game has it all over coach Paul Silas' play-heavy itinerary
>> back in Cleveland.
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>>      O'Brien's system is much more instinctive, much more free form,
>> and if there is anything to be said about Davis' slashing style, it's
>> that free form agrees with him.
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>>      ``It's different, but at the same time it lets me show my
>> skills,'' the 6-foot-7 swingman said yesterday. ``I'm really getting
>> used to it. You're not going to get in trouble for breaking a play.
>> In Cleveland they wanted you to run a lot of standard stuff - break a
>> play and you got punished.'' }
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> 	So, Ricky Davis is feeling more freedom in O'Brien's offense than
> with Silas in Cleveland. Does that surprise anyone? It did me.
> 	What about his comments on the  "passing game?" Jimmy has been
> talking this up all season, but has lately gone back  to the defensive
> drawing board, at least publicly.
> 	These statements are very encouraging to me. What do you think?
> 	Musty? is there motion in them thar hills?
>
> 	JB
> Unchain My Heart!