Re: Potapenko the Answer?

["R. Bentz Kirby" <bocelts@usit.net>]

Hey, but on the radio tonight in Columbia, they repeated a new report
that Brand from Duke is going to apply for the NBA draft.  Would he not
be someone we want to draft?

Michael Gooen wrote:
> 
> ---Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > If we're in the lottery in 2000 or 20001, I'm done with this team
> > anyway.  Pitino is betting we will be a playoff team.
> 
> I would say that I, too, would be "done with this team", but since I
> endured the Wicks & Rowe era and the ML years, that's not a credible
> threat.
> 
> The issue isn't 2000-2001, it's whether the C's will be in the lottery
> in 1999 -- a wacky season where anything can happen (and seems to be
> happening).  My concern is that the Celtics end up picking 8-10 and
> missing out on a very good player.  I agree that the team needs to get
> bigger, not younger, and that this draft has the potential to suck.
> It's just that, all other things being equal, I'd rather pay 1st
> rounder money to Lari Ketner than $40 mil+ to Potapenko.  If Pitino
> had been able to "top 10" protect this pick I would've been much
> happier with the deal, but I gather it was a struggle to get the top 3
> protection at all.
> 
> I also was kind of hoping the C's would be able to pick up Wayne
> Turner.  Maybe that's a sentimental choice (for Coach P and me both),
> but the guy is a jet who plays tenacious defense and knows what for
> want of a better term we'll call the "system".  He also could strikes
> me as an intelligent and big-game tested (more so than any other
> player in NCAA history!) player who could grow into a good successor
> to Anderson.
> 
> Maybe Turner's rep as a lousy shooter will drop him into the 2nd
> round.  Maybe Pitino can work a trade for him (doesn't Utah have half
> the 1st round picks in this draft?).
> 
> Like others on the list, I'll miss Ringo's tenacity.  Then again, I
> missed Derek Smith, Ronnie Grandison, Lorenzo Williams, Ed Pinckney
> and John Bagley when they left.  I suspect I'll get over it.
> 
> I guess the reason I'm angriest is that we couldn't package the #1 (or
> even 2 #1s) with Anderson to get Marbury and whatever cap crap (Billy
> Curley!) the T-Wolves had to unload to equalize Marbury's rookie scale
> pittance with Kenny's bloated remuneration.  Guess Kevin wasn't in the
> mood to do his old team a favor.
> 
> Michael Gooen
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