thoughts on the celtics-sixers

[Noah Evans]

A quick note on passing to perkins at the top of the 3 point line:

Teams with offensively challenged centers do that a lot. Rather than
having a defensive center clog the lane and get in the way of drivers
and more competent post players the center initiates the offense
giving the other players more time to operate. It could also provide
advantages for a slower center getting back in case of turnovers and
crashing the boards, but I'm not familiar with the NBA theory. Greg
Ostertag and Georghe Muresan were used a lot in this way.

Noah

On 3/31/07, ryan nelson <ryanmnelson at verizon.net> wrote:
> I don't even know where to begin other than saying it was the worst
> professional sporting event I have ever been to and I was at a
> pistons-nuggets game in 1997.
>
> The players, the effort, the coaching, and the refereeing were enough to
> make me never want to watch pro basketball again so this e-mail may be
> my swan song.
>
> 1.  The Wachovia center was about 20% full and the players seemed more
> interested in dancing and high fiving each other during the starting
> line-up introductions than actually playing the game.  At the beginning
> of the game, my wife actually turned to me and asked if we were at a
> minor league game because not one player looked like he cared or was
> interested.  I have seen more intensity in a Wiggles video.
>
> 2.  Can someone please explain to me why our offense revolves around
> passing to Kendrick Perkins in the high post?  And not just the high
> post, but the three point line.  It is horrific.  There is absolutely no
> point in giving him the ball there and yet we do it easily 60% of the
> time.  I can understand running that offense when Gomes is in there, but
> Perkins is as much of a threat with the ball on the 3 point line as
> Brian Scalabrine is a threat of winning Mr. Olympiad.
>
> 3.  Speaking of Gomes, what happened to him?  It looks like he swallowed
> John Bagley.  Not only that, but he was just about useless until our
> little run in the 4th quarter.
>
> 4.  Can someone please explain to me what Rajon Rondo does other than
> dribble the ball off of his left foot in transition?  I believe he drove
> to the hoop twice and otherwise played the Delonte West role to a T by
> dribbling to the 3 point line and passing to Perkins at the top of the
> key.   Plus Andre Miller abused him whenever he wanted to (which luckily
> wasn't often since Andre seemed as interested in playing as Ryan Gomes
> seems interested in dieting).
>
> 5.  I have avoided the whole delonte west debate on this list because
> trying to chase the horizon is a better use of time, but wow did he play
> poorly.  He is going to be a solid third guard for years to come but he
> runs an offense as smoothly as FEMA runs disaster relief.  I can't
> explain what an eyesore it is to see this team have zero offensive sets
> that work.
>
> 6.  I have seen Kedrick Brown, I have seen Todd Day, I have even seen
> Nate Driggers, but by a wide margin Allan Ray is the all-time worst
> Celtic I have ever seen.  Kyle Korver simply abused Allan Ray to the
> point of embarrassment.  I have never seen such a mediocre player as
> Korver just dominate one player.  In a span of 8 minutes Korver took Ray
> down low 4 times and I have watched Korver for 3 year and in that time
> he has gone to the basket exactly twice.  On 5 different occasions
> Korver beat Ray on a backdoor cut.  Five times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  A classic
> DJ-Bird play.  If you can get a tape of the game, watch this.  It is
> unbelievable.  When Ray came in in the second half I told my wife to
> watch Korver because he is going to go right at Ray.  Two lay-ups later
> and Ray still hadn't figured it out.  Unbelievable.  Allan Ray makes
> Kelvin Upshaw look like Tiny Archibald.
>
> 7.  Al has nice extension on his hook-esque shot but this was certainly
> not one of his better games.  After getting blocked by dalembert and
> then shooting an airball over dalembert in the first quarter, he was
> pretty much invisible until the second half.  I will withhold my smarmy
> comments on Al, but lets just say I am less worried than ever about him
> making an all-tar team.
>
> 8.  Violet palmer is to refereeing what Allan Ray is to defense.
> Consistently terrible.  I think she was getting paid by the traveling
> call.
>
> 9.  Worst of all, Tommy heinsohn was about ten feet away from us at half
> time talking to some guy and my wife went over to get his autograph just
> for kicks (I told her to see if he would give her a tommy point) and he
> brushed her off.  So I had to watch that wreck of a game and couldn't
> even get a tommy point, ugh.  How much worse can it get?
>
> I really don't think I can do justice to how horrible that game was and
> how awful our players played.  I guess I am glad we are getting more
> ping pong balls but that effort was embarrassing.
>
> Once again red auerbach outsmarted all of us by passing away before he
> had to watch this disaster.  I think I may be done.
>
> rmn
>
>
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