Re: Bill Walton

["David Gamble" <ope@pemberton.magnolia.net>]

Plus, it'll get him out of the broadcast booth!  Gotta agree with RACE. 
I'm not a big Walton fan, but if you listen to him talk, he loves the
Celtics.  He'd work very hard to get Boston back on top.

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> From: RACE --- <race@midusa.net>
> To: celtics <celtics@igtc.com>
> Subject: Bill Walton
> Date: Wednesday, March 19, 1997 7:25 Evening
> 
> I expected that folks might say Walton would be impossible to get as an 
> assistant ... the several comments i have seen flash by were somewhat 
> shocking....
> 
> Some arguments for including Walton as an assistant:
> 
> 1)  Big Men need coaches too.... DJ, K.C. and even M.L. do have a great 
> knowledge of the game BUT they don't have the "Experience" of playing in 
> the paint in the NBA....Walton has some experience consulting for Dale 
> Brown at LSU with a young man who has played some decent basketball 
> named Shaq ... among others.
> 
> 2)  Ramsey and Wooden too.  Besides knowing the game in the tradition of 
> the Celtics, Walton has also learned from two of the greatest minds in 
> basketball history ... the combination of the three makes him one of the 
> most knowledgeable big men in the x's and o's of the game.
> 
> 3)  NOT "Don't Worry Be Happy" Attitude .  Walton does not mince words 
> about poor fundamental basketball.  This is an attitude that the team 
> could use desperately at this point.
> 
> 4)  A little history ain't so bad.  It is true that sometimes Big Red 
> gets nostalgic.  However, one of the weaknesses of the current era of 
> the NBA IS not learning ANYthing from their forerunners.  Walton would 
> expect young players to Watch tape of comparable talents from past eras. 
>  Would that be so bad?  What could Tim Duncan learn from watching Connie 
> Hawkins??? A LOT.  As for Celtics past, Walker's defensive weaknesses 
> probably justify viewing a bit of Satch Sanders, Paul Silas and 
> Cornbread Maxwell.  NOT that you don't have to learn to DO the things 
> to, but SEEING something done, the VISUALIZING is a wonderful way to 
> begin the learning process.
> 
> I must admit that CHIEF would be great as well.  But I wonder if he'd be 
> vocal enough to counter-act the negative influences created by ML Carr.
> 
> dbr