Re: Why is everybody trying to drive out Carr?

[bocelts@scsn.net (R. Bentz Kirby)]

Marc Lamphier wrote:
> 

> Why is everybody trying to drive out Carr?
> 
>   By Will Mcdonough, Globe Columnist, 03/29/97
> 
>   Two years ago, if someone had said that at the end of the this NBA
>   season, the Celtics would have two lottery picks and room under the
>   salary cap to get another good player, all the pundits around here would
>   have scoffed, "Never happen."
> 
>   But now that it is happening, the man who made it happen, M.L. Carr,
>   is being called an idiot, while others in the media are calling for Rick
>   Pitino and Larry Bird to take over. Give me a break. Maybe we should
>   pass the stupid pills around at breakfast this morning.

Has Will been reading my email lately?  And to the others that have
taken the same position that ML is doing exactly what he planned and it
is going well, maybe we ought to gather a "told you so" list.  This limb
is pretty strong and I don't mind stitting on it.

>   In one of the most masterful trades in recent memory, the Celtics sent
>   Eric Montross to Dallas for the Mavericks' No. 1 pick. The Celtics had
>   three centers at the time: Montross, Pervis Ellison, and Alton Lister.
>   Lister is slightly younger than Red Auerbach. Ellison is made of papier
>   mache and can't play 30 games a year. Therefore, Carr knowingly sent
>   himself into battle this season without a center, which in the NBA means
>   your team is going to get buried.
> 
>   In order to get the alleged best player in the country coming out of
>   college, you have to get buried, and the Celtics are dead last.
> 
>   Carr the director of basketball operations sentenced Carr the coach to the
>   cellar. How many guys in sports would do that? M.L. fell on his sword
>   for the franchise because he knew it was the only way out. And now he
>   has a daily double within his grasp if Dallas dies at the end. So unless
>   they screw it up big time in the draft, the Celtics will be on the way back
>   next year, and if Carr is crazy enough to want to coach again, he should
>   get the shot.
If the Celtics do have the money to sign someone, it better be Wesley,
shouldn't it?
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