Re: Why Croshere is a bad idea

["John Lyell" <johnlyell@hotmail.com>]

I agree Walter is a waste of Cap space. He probably hit more outside shots
in game 1 then he did the rest of the year.

John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elgin W Booth" <ewbooth@hopper.unh.edu>
To: "Roy Enrile" <renrile@qualcomm.com>
Cc: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 2:35 PM
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.
>
>