RE: ML, Ellison, Anderson

[John Lyell <Jlyell@concentric.net>]

You are correct , Anderson could stink it up tomorrow, as has been the 
standard for most Celtics this year, up one game cold as ice the next few, 
  and we beat L.A. & Chicago, but maybe its just me but the ball movement 
in the last 2 games seems to have been better than I have seen all season 
for some reason. Greg Minor even made some excellent plays last night and 
had me saying "Where has this guy been ?"  As previously stated the trade 
deadline was like a big weight off their shoulders that they didn't end up 
in Canada or with the Clippers or Nuggets.

You look at guards like  Anderson and Kidd and they have great court vision 
and immediately push the ball up the floor and make the passes in the lane 
that make things happen. Kenny Anderson has the talent to play like this 
every night.  Whether he will is the $50M question.  I hate to jinx him but 
his does remind me a lot of Tiny Archibald, not the scoring machine he was 
, but the quick floor leader , thief,  and general and creator of havoc. 
Last night on a couple occasions he made good passes people were just not 
expecting.  With time they will know to be ready for those and get easy 
baskets. This could really open up Walkers inside game, as long as he isn't 
wandering out at the top of the key in launch mode.   I have a good feeling 
that he will be happy in Boston playing in Pitino's offense with young 
studs like Mercer & Walker and building this team.  Defense could be 
interesting though.  But only time will tell.

Rick, and many others, did not see this in Chauncy and based on instincts 
 he was exiled to Siberia. They hoped that Chauncy could be made into the 
big point everyone wants, but after 50 games plus pre-season & tryouts, 
they finally realized maybe he wasn't going to cut it at the NBA level and 
better suited for the 2 spot , but not as talented as Mercer, therefore 
expendable.




On Saturday, February 21, 1998 8:28 PM, Cecil Wright 
[SMTP:cecil@hfx.andara.com] wrote:
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> From: kjgoo <kjgoo@worldnet.att.net>
> To: Celtics@igtc.COM <Celtics@igtc.COM>
> Date: Saturday, February 21, 1998 10:27 PM
> Subject: ML, Ellison, Anderson
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> I am hoping that Kenny has matured, that he can
> >lead the team and that he can make the commitment to give his all at
> >both ends of the court.  If that's the case, then I will happily defer
> >to the Coach on this one.
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> Me too, but just a word of caution for all who have annointed Kenny as 
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> saviour.  One game does not a season make.  I was very impressed with 
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season,
> as were you all, when we defeated Chicago and Los Angeles.  We did that
> without Kenny folks, and some of us made comments like maybe Billups 
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> Just realize that there is some talent on this team which hopefully will
> benefit from Anderson's presence, but be careful with the grandiose
> assessments after only 48 minutes of basketball.  It was done before a 
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> prematurely.
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> Cecil
> >For now, I stand firmly with Cecil.  I hate to give up on a
> >tremendous talent like Chauncey Billups before his 22nd birthday,
> >particularly since he had such a positive attitude and strong work
> >ethic.  I will miss John Thomas -- another solid (and I do mean SOLID)
> >citizen.  Finally, although it was clearly time for him to move on, I
> >share Dan Shaughnessy's sentiments about Dee Brown -- the last link to
> >the Big Three and Reggie (I'm sure Dorine agrees with me that it would
> >have been better for Rick Fox to maintain that distinction).  To all 3
> >(especially if any of them secretly read this list) -- thank you for
> >being good Celtics, and best of luck in your NBA careers (when you're
> >not playing against our boys, that is).
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> >Michael Gooen
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