RE: Chris Wallace Strikes Again

["Sampath, Venkatesh" <Venkatesh.Sampath@microcell.ca>]

I don't know that this is such a pessimistic affair. When you look at the Bulls and their six championships, the only "centre" they had was Bill Cartwright - else it was mainly a committee of centres in Longley, Wennington and Purdue. Further, where are you going to get the calibre of centre you are looking for (certainly championship material) - and that too drafting at no. 10? Don't forget that at one stage we were so desparate that we renounced Fox and Wesley for Travis Knight!!!! (Gawd, I still shudder to recall that one - and somebody on this list rightly pointed out that he "could carve a better defender out of a banana!"). 
And talking about Wesley, our best point guard since his departure - in my view at any rate - has been Anderson. In fact, even going back (before Wesley) - all the way back to Brian Shaw - we haven't had an "all-star" quality point-guard! Yes, he's way too expensive for what he brings - unless he really turns into a legitimate scoring threat (for which he does have the potential), and even then .... - but we shot ourselves in the foot allowing Wesley to depart. 
What I would love to see is a defensive stopper of the calibre of a Theo Ratliff being brought into the rotation. Anybody know what happened to Michael Stewart who was supposed to be in Toronto - another bust? We need to play defence. The offence can be taken care of by Walker, Pierce and Kenny (goddamn it, if for nothing else, than the money he's being paid). 

venkat

-----Original Message-----
From: Berry, Mark S [mailto:berrym@BATTELLE.ORG]
Sent: 25 April 2001 14:37
To: 'wayray@ix.netcom.com'; 'celtics@igtc.com'
Subject: Re: Chris Wallace Strikes Again


Sigh... We're fine at center??? How many games did Mark Blount start??? What
were our rebounding numbers??? We're going to draft a SF/SG to be a third
scorer.... Isn't anyone looking at the big picture of this team??? Kenny is
going to bounce back... I need to get away from this list for a while. 

Mark