Re: Celtic Turmoil

["JLyell" <jlyell@concentric.net>]

Hey I missed the noting best part of the article the beginning which is as
follows:

L.A. Times 4/13/97

Listen my children & you shall hear , of the end of M.L. Carr's coaching
career.


Where Paul Revere when you need him ?  You would think that the city that
dumped all that tea in the harbor and warned the colonists that the British
were coming could get rid of one overmatched basketball executive. But the
times have changed. 


Maybe Larry is our Paul Revere ?

Let's give Arnold some nice celtic slippers, a T-shirt and a good rocking
chair and say thanks for the memories, but as in any business what have you
done for me lately ?

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> From: damekmo@teleport.com
> To: celtics@igtc.com
> Subject: Re: Celtic Turmoil
> Date: Sunday, April 13, 1997 10:15 AM
> 
> >One side
> >
> >Owner Paul Gaston, Clueless N.Y.broker son of former owner, whose team
has
> >gotten worse each year.
> >
> >M.L. Carr - Coach/G.M. Middle aged, not very adept.
> >
> >Red Auerbach - Former coach/G.M behind the scenes advisor to Gaston,
> >recommended Carr, may be propping him up now.
> 
> What?....Red Auerbach? Is he still around? Let me tell you guys a little
> story about squeeling pigs and genetic defects. Do any of you remember
the
> last time the Celtics won the championship? Do any of you remember the
> article about it in Sports Illustrated? The article began by calling the
> Celtics an old team. Old?!?...in 1986?!?...After watching one of the
> greatest teams I'd ever seen have one of the greatest seasons I'd ever
> seen, SI calls them old and infers that changes would have to be made!?!
I
> laughed, filled the pick-up with all my worldly possessions and headed
for
> Tennessee where I "dun gut my gradeeate deegree." Have any of you ever
been
> to Tennessee? "Deliverance" is not fiction. Anyway...I spent the next
three
> years reading, painting, eating Middle Eastern food, drinking beer, and
> watching the Celtics age, slip, and do nothing about it. There was a
woman
> in my department who was a Celtics fan (and God help her, it's obviously
> not her fault, a Giants fan) who, like me, watched and waited those three
> years and kept saying, "As Long as Red's still there, they'll win it
> again." I waited...she waited (and kept on with those miserable
paintings,
> that should've been the first clue).Then in 1990 the Celtics were beaten
by
> the Knicks in the playoffs. As I remember, the first round! Red?!? What
was
> Red doing to this team? What was going on? Where were the imaginative
gutsy
> moves? Where were the trades, signings, draft choices? After that series
an
> article in the "Village Voice" called Auerbach an old fool whose time had
> come and gone. They laughed...I didn't. I packed up the Toyota and headed
> west...and waited. Nothing. Where's this story going? I'll tell you:
Guys,
> Auerbach no longer has a clue and hasn't had a clue for a while now. If
> he's actually been the man behind the scenes, as the LA Times article
> infers, then this franchise is living farther in the past than I thought,
> is farther gone than I thought, is in bigger trouble than I thought,
> and...God this pains me to say it....Opie's right. If ML is a result of
the
> union between Auerbach, his self-perception as a genius, and the decision
> making processes and logic that gave us Gavitt and still believes in Red,
> then as much as I like and admire ML, a break has to be made. Auerbach
has
> to be hustled out of there. All his friends and loyalists have to be
> hustled out of there. They're all wrong and dangerous. I've actually
spent
> the last few years thinking that Auerbach was no longer an issue....that
he
> was living in a home somewhere waiting for his calls to be returned.
Jesus,
> does he actually have an office in the building! Is this all possible!
> Forget the coffee. "Honey...where'd you put the heroin?"
> 
> Paul M
> 
> 
>