Re: Larry Hughes

["Jaime Salud Castillo, Jr." <jaims@philonline.com>]

I guess everybody has their own opinion about a player here and there.  Now,
it's Mr. Hughes' turn.  All I know is that he's a young player with lots of
talent and potential,...but...we don't need him.  We already have scorers in
Pierce and Walker who occupies the shooting guard and small forward
positions.  I've heard someone posted that Hughes is a small version of our
own Antoine Walker(I think it's true)..."when he's hot, he's hot and
praisable...but when he couldn't get the ball to drop, he still shoots it
and he's boo-able."

So, I just wonder why we are even considering a Walker for Hughes+whatever
trade?

Maybe, if we stick it out with Mr. Walker, be patient even for one whole
season, and then BAM...if he still doesn't improve or correct his perenial
bad habits then we decide to move him.  And God willing, if ever, next
season's catches are Grant Hill and Duncan...if and only if we get lucky or
some team would like to gamble on our prodigal son that is.


----- Original Message -----
From: <Georgek27@aol.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 1999 12:31 AM
Subject: Re: Larry Hughes


> In a message dated 12/4/99 9:11:29 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca writes:
>
> << Not according to Bill's report, which I am much more inclined to
believe
>  than a large % of the reactionary comments I read on this list.  From
Bill,
>  I get the sense that Toine played a very good game, a very smart game by
>  driving, waiting for the defense to collapse on him and kicking the ball
out
>  to the open man.  That is team basketball, which, at a previous time, was
>  the essence of Celtic basketball.
>   >>
> Good post Cecil.  While the fashionable thing is to bash AW if you look
> beyond the shots you can appreciate him more.  Last night nothing would
drop
> for him and he didn't take a lot of bad shots.  He was working under the
> boards and looked to have more rebounds than he got credit for, he was
> attracting double teams and opening things up for others, and he did a lot
of
> other stuff like the steal/layup in he 4th quarter that seemed to seal
> Miami's fate.  Some of the 3's he put up were the very same shot that Bird
> would take (leading by 10-12 and looking for that extra dagger in the
> opponents heart) and even tho they didn't drop we got some of the
offensive
> rebounds on them.  The difference is that Bird would go out and shoot a
few
> hundred in practice before every game and Antoine does not.  The team
> collectively had trouble with the 3's but did seem to get a lot of the
long
> rebounds.
>
> How anyone can compare Larry Hughes performance last night to any game
> Antoine EVER had is beyond me.  In only 12 minutes Hughes managed to miss
all
> 6 shots he took and turn the ball over 6 times.  IN 12 MINUTES!  The only
> "positive" he had was ONE rebound.
>
> Last night's game was similar to VP's first Celtic/Heat game.  Our trio of
> centers made life miserable for Mourning even tho he came away with stats.
I
> think our trio of centers put up something like 25 pts and 23 rebounds
> against him tho (and I realize we sometimes had 2 of them in the game at
> once).  To credit the win to Pitino getting tossed is as accurate as
writing
> off the season after losing our first exhibition game.  But then after AW,
> Pitino is the #2 whipping boy for the fans with Barros, McCarty & Battie
not
> too far behind.  Some criticism is deserved on all fronts but in most
cases
> some credit is deserved as well.
>
> George
>
>