Re: Why Croshere is a bad idea

["Jaime Salud Castillo, Jr." <jaims@philonline.com>]

I agree.  This team is filled by shooters...but not good consistent ones.

Austin Croshere isn't only a good shooter that has range but also has very
good and strong defensive abilities (could guard SG, SF, PF)...and that non
of our players have qualities like his or they just don't want to defend!

I like Guyton but there's a better shooter/scorer in Eddie House or Johnny
Helmsley.

Later.

Jaims
----- Original Message -----
From: Elgin W Booth <ewbooth@hopper.unh.edu>
To: Roy Enrile <renrile@qualcomm.com>
Cc: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 5:35 AM
Subject: Re: Why Croshere is a bad idea


>
>
> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Roy Enrile wrote:
>
> >
> > If the C's go for a forward in free agency, I wish they would look at
real
> > veteran players who play like the Davis boys (Dale, Antonio), instead of
> > Austin Croshere.
> >
> > All of our big men, including McCarty and Antoine can already hit a
stand
> > still jumper,
>
> They can? What game have you been watching? Vitaly is our only big guy who
> can knock down the open jumper and at the end of the season even he
> couldn't. If Walker could ever do that, he would be unstoppable. As of
> now, defenders back way off him and dare him to take it. Hey, if I was
> coaching the other team, that's how I would play him, just dare him to
> take the outside or mid range shot. He can't hit it. Neither can Walter,
> he's horrible all around.
>
> We have three very good slashers in Walker, Eric Williams, and Paul Pierce
> (you could count Kenny in there too), what we need is an outside threat to
> free up the defense. This really would do wonders for our offense. We are
> one of the worst perimeter shooting teams in the NBA. When Kenny is your
> most consistent outside threat that is saying something. Everybody has
> been ignoring this all year. Hasn't anyone noticed that no one on this
> team can shoot? I mean Pierce, Kenny, and Dana are OK, but all
> inconsistent. Besides that, we are pitiful shooters.
>
> Signing a guy like Austin Croshere or drafting a pure shooter like AJ
> Guyton would really help this problem. It would keep the defense honest
> and open up the middle for the slashers we have.
>
>