Re: Boos for AW

[Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com>]

The whole night should be expunged from memory. 
Antoine presumably was speaking from his emotions.  He
is the cornerstone of the team.  I hate those Boston
Bastards that Boo!  Here's what I also hate -- Paul
Pierce isolated on a slow white guy in his favorite
spot on the floor, and he can't get a good shot! 
Blame that on Antoine.


--- KK  wrote:
> Kevin.Lok@outokumpu.com wrote:
> 
> > Anybody knows what he means "but at the end of the
> year I'll deal with the
> > situation.''?
> 
> He'll ask Falk to engineer a trade to a place where
> he'll get some "love"(Chitown?)?
> If that's what it was, it is yet another stupid
> comment by AW in response to
> the boos (remember the "that's just unprofessional"
> comment?). But this is
> only a guess, I don't really know. 
> 
> That aside, I thought Pitino was right on the money
> with his post-game
> comments last night. Certainly, the fans (if that's
> what they are) have the
> right to boo whether it's "right" or not. But at
> this point, simply from a
> classical conditioning standpoint, it has become
> counterproductive. Antoine IS
> finally doing what the fans have conditioned him to
> do (take good shots and
> play team basketball), and yet they keep booing
> unless he's absolutely
> perfect. But not even the Boston demigod Larry was
> perfect, and booing
> certainly won't make Antoine shoot 100% from the
> field or even the FT line -
> quite the opposite. 
> 
> Joe Hironaka wrote:
> 
> > It's these stupid corporate season ticket
> > holding, butt-munching, yuppie-types that piss me
> off. I'm starting to
> > hate the whole Fleet Bank center scene.  
> 
> Hey, Joe, let's not be so quick with the class-based
> blame assignment, eh? (I
> know it's easy to fall prey to this living in Paris
> :)) For all we know, it
> could be beered up Joe Sixpacks, misguided tourists,
> or Krause's "plants", who
> could be responsible for this viciousness. ;)
> Although I'm usually not big on sending support
> letters to pampered athletes,
> in this situation it might be a good idea to send
> 'Toine a quick note,
> basically saying, "Forget the few yahoos at the
> Fleece, we on the Celtslist
> are the real fans, and we appreciate your effort and
> improved, team-oriented, play."
> 
> 

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