Re: [Celtic_Pride] The Truth about Cats and Pitinos

["Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>]

In the inimitable words of the great George Costanza, "I hear thee."

Cecil






----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Kean" <simon@jkean.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <Celtic_Pride@egroups.com>
Cc: "Boston Celtics" <celtics@igloo.igtc.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Celtic_Pride] The Truth about Cats and Pitinos


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>
> To: "Celt's" <Celtic_Pride@egroups.com>
> Cc: "Boston Celtics" <celtics@igloo.igtc.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 12:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [Celtic_Pride] The Truth about Cats and Pitinos
>
>
> > OK.  Over the past day or so, I have tried to point out how Philly has
> been
> > able to move to this level, but, with no offense intended toward Simon,
I
> > don't know if he has received the messages.
>
> I've certainly got your messages, and understood your point - just
disagree
> with it :)
> >
> > Disgruntled C's fans have called for a complete overhaul of the team in
> its
> > present state and called for draft picks.  I mentioned that Philly has
> > acquired the following players via free agency or trades:
> >
> > Kukoc, Ratliff, Geiger, Lynch, Hill, Snow, Maxwell, McKie were all
gotten
> > that way, to the credit of the GM and coach.  They have assembled a fine
> > team to revolve around Iverson, but it was NOT done via the draft, other
> > than him.
>
> Point taken, but this team and it's respective owner & management has not
> demonstrated that it can attract decent free agents or trade for good
> players, regardless of the fact we've got a cheap owner, and are over the
> salary cap. My argument is that wholesale changes need to be made at all
> levels of the organisation. This team has sucked for almost a decade. I'm
> not calling for draft picks at all (just look at this year's rookie
> class)....but they are valuable trade tools.
>
> The only way I see us obtaining decent players, is by packaging our cap
> cancers or draft picks with one of our so-called stars to obtain the
> aforementioned decent players.
>
> > So Philly was fortunate enough to be able to get decent players through
> > transactions, not through the draft.  For those of us waiting to take
our
> > team to the next level as a result of the draft will take several more
> > years, right?  For example, Stith has already shown the benefits of that
> > deal IMHO.  If Herren had not gotten injured, it would have (still does
to
> > me) solidify that the deal was a steal for us.   We are young enough as
it
> > is.  We need a couple of veterans who are capable of making key
> > contributions, unlike Walter.  Preferably, one of them will be a big
man.
> >
> > Cecil
>
> Agreed, I like the deal for Stith. However, he's not exactly all-star
> material which we need, and as mentioned, I don't see us being able to
land
> a decent "veteran" big man under the status quo. Every team needs valuable
> veteran role players like Stith and Brown, but they are role-players and
> without having consistent talented players to work with the role players,
we
> are, and shall remain toast.
>
> Simon
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