Re: The Fort & Free Agents

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

I thought Fortson had an injured foot which forced him to miss the first 2
months of the season.  And then it took some time to get into shape.  Can't
use him if he isn't in uniform.

Cecil

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Meninno <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>
To: <Celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: The Fort & Free Agents


> >From: bird <bird@pixi.com>
> >(What I just don't understand is, why trade for him and then not use
> >him?  Sure, he fouled a lot, especially in the early season, but I
> >thought that fouls were there to be given in Il Duce's system?  Let
> >him get 10 bounds and foul out.  The "Walker Experiment" at playing
> >the 3 went by so fast I never even saw it, and so  Fort gets to play
> >backup 4 and 5.  If he's not right for the "system" why pick him up?
> >To trade for Alvin Williams?  (Alvin freaking Williams?  Geez.)  It
> >seems to me that you can either privilege your system and gather
> >those 6'10" a-the-letic (you gotta say that like Hubie Brown),
> >rail-thin guys and go to war, or you assess your talent, try to
> >acquire more talent, and tailor your system to them.  (I like this
> >one better.)  But half of one and a quarter of the other just ain't
> >gonna cut it, methinks.)
>
> I'm afraid I can't really help you out here.  If you're going to run a
> pressing team, why trade for Kenny Anderson, Vitaly Potapenko and Danny
> Fortson?  It makes no sense.  Now we are hearing that we need to get more
> athletic.  That the reason the team lost so much was that they pressed
less
> than any Pitino team since he was "in diapers".  Isn't that just precious?
> Now, honestly, the first year of Pitino WAS the most enjoyable of his
> tenure.  I can't believe, however, that we wasted two years of development
> acquiring talent that was objectively better than what we had, but not
> suited to the intended game plan.  But, there we are.
>
> Jim
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