Re: patience and stability

[Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com>]

I agree with Pitino.  This group is definitely a
playoff team in the Eastern conference, but so what? 
The point is to build a contender.  I think he's
considering trading Antoine.  That line about "Antoine
will never be a great defensive player" jibes against
his earlier assertion that the celtics would never win
until Pierce and Antoine were the two best defensive
players.  I really feel like Kenny is the one that has
to go, though.  I can't understand why nobody seems to
see.  Even Peter May gives Kenny the best grades in
his player analysis this week.  I really think we need
to unload some salary this offseason too.  Pierce is
going to want a BIG contract, and I don't see Paul
Gaston paying $40 million in luxury tax.  He's already
going to be paying a lot as is.  Maybe I misunderstand
how this works.  


I don't know.  I feel like if we had a no-frills,
no-name defensive oriented point guard and a
shotblocking center who could block 3+ shots a night,
we would be ok.  We need to get back to pressing more.

--- Dan Forant <dforant1@nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> Sadly, this same team will not compete for even the
> 8th playoff spot. We
> need at least, a couple bench players that can give
> some consistency.
> 
> 
> At 01:24 PM 4/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >Do you disagree with him, Tom? Do you actually
> think that this team,
> >withthis talent, is ever going to compete for
> anthing other than 8th
> >playoffspot? I think he's made some horrible
> mistakes acquiring players and
> >he'd abe a fool to come back with the same team.
> Red couldn't win with
> >thatbench. Pitino's been a horrible gm. Perhaps the
> solution is to keep him
> >onthe court and out of the front office. But I just
> don't believe he
> >winsanything but the 8th spot at best with this
> current group. Anybody
> >youbring in to replace Ricky is going to have to
> make some major changes.
> >Morelater. I have to go to work.
> >
> >You know, a lot of Pitino's moves have been
> defendable. Chauncey for Kenny,
> >even with Kenny as weak as he is, seems like an
> upgrade. Battie for Knight
> >was a slam dunk before we signed Batgirl to his
> ridiculous contract. Vitaly
> >was an upgrade over DeClercq. But Pitino's mistakes
> are made in haste.
> >Toronto traded Chauncey to the Nuggets for a
> first-round draft pick that, I
> >believe, became Vince Carter. He signed Battie
> before he had to when the
> >free  agent maket is going to dry up after the top
> three or four players.
> >Vitaly is better than AD, but is he so much better
> that we wouldn't rather
> >have Andre Miller? Do you think the Cavs would
> trade Vitaly straight-up for
> >Miller? The Celtics would. These deals aren't
> terrible, but they're not as
> >good as they could have been.
> >
> >The Mercer trade was Pitino's one true disaster,
> but we won't get into that
> >again.
> >
> >I've been a proponent of blowing this team up for
> some time now, and it
> >sounds like Pitino has come to the same conclusion.
> That's good. My concern
> >is that he'll again make mistakes in his haste to
> turn this team into a
> >playoff contender right away. Alex made a great 
> point about some possible
> >deals-Brown and Mashburn, Davis and ??-but he's
> right in questioning whether
> >or not those deals really help our future. If
> Pitino is going to do this,
> >he's going to have to commit to it all the way. But
> does he have the
> >patience to do that? He hasn't shown it yet.
> >
> >Mark 
> >
> >
> 
> 

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