Mike Gorman getting chalked etc.

[Snoopy the Celtics Beagle]

I was going to get annoyed until went back over your last 10 or so 
posts and realized the ratio of useful content vs. BS in them was so 
low that you can no longer tell the difference. :)

At 05:49 PM 12/4/2007, dforant1 wrote:

>So much BS in this post I have my boots on.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Snoopy the Celtics Beagle" <snoopy at celticsbeagle.net>
>To: "The Boston Celtics Mailing List" <celtics at igtc.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:38 PM
>Subject: Re: Mike Gorman getting chalked etc.
>
>
> > Red lit up on the bench as a deliberate way to say "The game is
> > over.  We win."  Back then, several players, including Tommy
> > Heinsohn, smoked; and smoking wasn't the target of so much public
> > outrage back in the day.
> >
> > As to the language, it's probably not so much a thing with the older
> > Celtics players--Red cursed a lot and so did Cousy, to name two
> > people.  That we didn't hear it so much on tv is more a fact that the
> > FCC frowns on such things, than that they didn't use foul
> > language.  From what I've seen/heard/read about Garnett, it's not a
> > simple matter of him saying, "Get your lazy ass up the court!", but
> > apparently something distinctly more vulgar.   Given that Ray Allen
> > grew up a military brat, I'm sure he heard worse growing up, so
> > whatever Garnett said must have been a doozy.
> >
> > COULD Red be childish and offensive?  Hell, yes.  But everyone KNEW
> > that going in.  And frankly, he ran the team, did the scut work,
> > coached the Celtics to multiple championships, and secured players
> > who became legends of the game.  I think he earned the right to do a
> > few things his way.  Good as he undeniably is, Garnett doesn't yet
> > have that cachet.

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