Re: Bird not buying Celtics

[Dan Forant <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

You got the wrong message from my post. Myself and others included are
tired of the seemingly inexperienced Celtic organization to put a team
together and or make the one we do have work more effectively. This team is
not much better than last seasons, talent wise or execution wise.

At 09:41 PM 2/21/00 -0500, you wrote:
>> The Knick organization I hated for years now are looking good. A guy named
>> Van Gundy has a bunch of stumble bums playing good basketball and tied in
>> the East for 1st place. I rest my case. 
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>The Knicks have a cap figure this year of over $70M, behind only
>Portland. It's nice to be able to spend your way to victory. Ewing,
>LJ, Sprewell, and Houston have all been solid All-Stars at one
>point in their careers. That team has talent and experience, as 
>well as being well coached by Van Gundy, who nonetheless was in
>danger of being fired late last year.
>
>Most people tend to overrate our young talent (which will be good
>eventually) and underrate every other team. The Knicks are "a bunch
>of stumble bums". The Pacers are a bunch of unathletic old men.
>Sometimes I think that Pitino should just scrap the young player
>approach, trade everyone for 12 year veterans and win 42-45 games a 
>year for the rest of his contract, washing out in the first round
>of the playoffs every time. Maybe Indiana will be looking to rebuild
>after this year; we can give them Pierce, Walker, and Potapenko for
>Mark Jackson, Reggie Miller, and Dale Davis. Maybe we can throw in
>some first round picks and get Smits too. That'll make some fans
>happy, because they don't have the patience to wait for a young team
>that'll grow into something more than that.
>
>Alex
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