Re: No to Van Horn: Thoughts on the big men

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

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> From: Adi Inbar <bis@world.std.com>
> To: celtics@igtc.com
> Subject: Re: No to Van Horn: Thoughts on the big men
> Date: Wednesday, March 12, 1997 12:31 AM
> 
> Roy
> 
> No, no, *NO*!  That is the WRONG way to think about a high draft pick.
> If you have the 15th pick, you draft to build your team.  If you're
> drafting in the top 5, you take the best player available.  Don't need
> him?  Then trade him!  Or trade the player(s) he displaces.  The
> stupidity of worrying about what kind of player you need when you have
> one of the top picks has been proven time and time again.
> 
> 
> FORGET ABOUT WHAT THE TEAM NEEDS.  The team needs good players, one
> way or another.  When you're over .500, that's when you start worrying
> about who can do what.
> 

I agree 100% !  Lets not draft Koul just because we need a center. Didn't
we learn from Acie Earl & Montross ?