RE: you never know

[OzerskyJA <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>]

I hope someone asks Pitino where he is going to play
this guy.  Unless Antoine spends ten minutes a night
at the one spot, or Tony Battie gets traded for a point 
guard, we have a numbers crunch problem.  Of course,
if we weed out all the nonhackers and go back to pressing
minutes won't be a problem for anyone...

Josh Ozersky	
Marketing Communications Specialist 
Corning Museum of Glass

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Joe Hironaka [SMTP:j.hironaka@unesco.org]
> Sent:	Thursday, June 29, 2000 2:26 PM
> To:	Berry, Mark S; celtics@igtc.com
> Subject:	Re: you never know
> 
>     But one thing for sure is I'm usually dead wrong in my first
> impression
> with uncanny accuracy, so in this sense the Moiso (eventual nickname: 'Zo
> II?)
> draft looks pretty great already. And based on my other comments, Marcus
> Viagra Pfizer and Keyon Drooling will also be NBA All Stars imminently.
> 
>     I think when Paul Pierce got drafted, my actual first impression was
> along
> the lines of "there MUST be a reason he fell this far" and "isn't he a 6-6
> tweener big forward from the land of Toto?"  And I was truly outraged that
> Pitino would even entertain the idea of trading our entire 1997 draft to
> rebuild around a 30-something guy like Scottie Pippen. And I thought Tim
> Duncan would be no better as a rookie savior than Marcus Camby the year
> before. I didn't think Larry Bird could or should be a coaching candidate
> for
> the Celtics other than as a publicity stunt for the guy he would replace,
> ML
> Carr. And last but not least, I thought signing Rick Pitino was the
> greatest
> coup in history. Doh!
> 
>     I don't know about you, but I'm starting to get pumped about next
> season.
> :-) You're absolutely right. Time will tell. It could all finally start to
> gell.
> 
> ****
> 
> "Berry, Mark S" wrote:
> 
> > Today I'm thanking my lucky stars that Portland turned down three No. 1
> > picks for Jermaine O'Neal, but three years from now, who knows? Jermaine
> > O'Neal may turn into Rasheed Wallace without the 'tude, Moiso could be a
> > bust and our picks the next couple of years could amount to nothing.
> > Remember when we all were furious that Pitino was considering trading
> 3&6
> > for Pippen? Would have been a good deal in hindsight. Then he was
> offering
> > Mercer and 10 for Olowokandi, which I completely endorsed at the time,
> but
> > as it turns out, it would have cost us Pierce for a project.
> >
> > The point is, we just don't know. Time will tell.
> >
> > Mark