Re: carr

["Raymond DeCampo" <rkdecamp@mailbox.syr.edu>]

> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 02:34:41 +0900
> From: lamphier@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Marc Lamphier)
> Subject: Re: carr
> 
> At 11:48 AM 97.3.26 -0500, Christopher Gee wrote:
> 
> >3) Everyone needs to stop pointing fingers at who selected Walker, or made
> >the Montross deal or anything else.  The point is the Celtics made these
> >deals and the credit as well as the blame should go to everyone involved.
> 
> This is the best opinion I have heard on this so far, and from everything I
> have read seems closest to the truth. These decisions are made by committee
> - -- several of the guys directly involved have said as much. Carr isn't just
> in there calling the shots himself, its Red, Larry, DJ, ML and various
> scouts, and in that crowd I can't believe that it is ML whose opinion holds
> sway. 
> 

I disagree.  ML Carr is the general manager and thus he has to make 
the final decision on all personell decisions.  He gets the credit 
for the trade because the buck stops this him.  I don't care whose 
idea it was etc.  ML is the one responsible and the one who should be 
held accountable.  He gets the credit and blame for everything under 
his tenure.  

Why don't you think that his opinion will hold sway?  He doesn't have 
to convince the others he is right.  He calls the shots--not Red, DJ, 
Larry or Ed Lacerte.  Don't you think he'll put the most weight 
behind his own thoughts?

Ray