Kobe

[Steve Ouellette]

Exactly. Big Al didn't begin to gel until all our other bigs got hurt and he learned to play without his appendix. Allen went from a waste of roster space to all-star calibre a fourth of the way through the season (then knocked himself out for the year) and Delonte was hurt, played mostly lousy and was unfairly benched for Telfair before his recent stay in street clothes brought him back more or less to last year's level of play. 

Even with the roster's return to nearly reasonable health, the C's are still without 2 of their six best players -- including No. 1 --  and another (Wally) is far from 100 percent. Fine, the great teams can overcome that, like the, um, Heat have done, so the Celtics aren't great. But they aren't bad ... not really.

Steve O

---- douglas342 at aol.com wrote: 
> Eggy, let's assume we get a healthy Pierce back with 28 games to go.  Do you really think that Pierce plus the newly-seasoned kids would again go 10-18?   Since he went down, Gomes, Jefferson, and Allen blossomed, and West has become a much more consistent scorer.  I sure don't think they'd go 20-8 over that stretch, but .500 at least.  With Allen, I'd bet on 18-10.  
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eggcentric at aol.com
> To: celtics at igtc.com
> Sent: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 9:49 AM
> Subject: Re: Kobe
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> 
> In a message dated 2/1/07 10:32:31 AM, fth at hurleyit.com writes:
> 
> > Are we as good when healthy as the Spurs would have been with Robinson?
> > Perhaps not, but then again, this was a team that was running bad teams
> > out of the building, and staying with good teams most nights.
> >      
> 
> We were 10-18 when Pierce went down. 
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