Re: Globe: Celts want Chris Carr

[Joe Hironaka <j.hironaka@unesco.org>]

    For me, it's more the "I'd like to get another scorer (to go with Pierce)"
and the "five teams are after him" Spintino, kneejerk bs rhetoric that kills
me.

    Why can't Pitinochio try coming clean and say that Carr seems like a good
bargain in his estimation who might or might not help the team, and, in any
case, the million dollar veteran slot we're offering is basically serious chump
change (maybe 1/40th of next year's cap) anyway whether or not it is longterm
or not . There aren't that many semi-accomplished veteran players out there who
will even sign for 1 million. It is a 12th man slot. Or a 15th man slot in this
case.

    I think what the Celts need is a credible three point threat particularly
now that Barros is gone. I guess adding Carr's contract signals that Joe Sesar
can't be with us next season, or isn't ready for the NBA yet.

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"Berry, Mark S" wrote:

> Chris Carr. Ugh. Just another stiff to add to the growing collection who
> occupy the C's bench. Don't we have enough bad swingmen in Eric Williams,
> Calbert Cheaney and Walter McCarty (I'm not counting the second-half
> Griffin, because I'm hoping he can return to his early-season form)? If you
> took the best qualities of Williams, Cheaney, McCarty and Carr and rolled
> them together into one player, you still wouldn't have much. And the key to
> getting him is making it a long-term contract? Please, no.
>
> The guy averaged 9 points on 40 percent shooting for the Bulls? And he's
> supposed to provide scoring when Pierce gets his annual month-long ankle
> sprain? Am I missing something here?
>
> And the worst part of this news is it sounds like the move of a team not
> really planning on doing anything else. It has that "filling in the around
> the edges" feel to it. I hope that's not the case. It can't be, can it?
>
> Mark