RE: Thoughts on the deals/celtics

[OzerskyJA <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>]

good to hear from you, Alex.  To what do you attribute the recent sightings
of Pitinoesque trapping, excessive three-point shooting, and effeminate
rebounding?  Will the team go back to its newfound rugged ways tonight?
Will Walker abuse Baker on the block, and Pierce post up the Sonics' smaller
guards?

What gives?  I'm glad all the celtics are psyched about the playoff race,
but they have been blown out in four games, and haven't looked good.  At
least Kenny is safely on the IR.

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Alexander Wang [SMTP:awang@MIT.EDU]
	Sent:	Monday, February 26, 2001 11:38 AM
	To:	Hironaka; Berry, Mark S
	Cc:	'celtics@igtc.com'
	Subject:	Re: Thoughts on the deals/celtics

	At 11:05 AM 2/26/01 +0100, Hironaka wrote:
	>Kenny Anderson is 31-years-old, loves to dribble, and is a
defensive
	liability.
	>Mark Jackson turns 36 next month, loves to dribble, and is a
defensive
	>liability. Both could have been good additions for a deep playoff
run on the
	>right team, and Kenny is a legitimate NYC legend (and the last NBA
player
	before
	>Walker to score over 40 points and 10 assists in a game). I wonder
if Chris
	>Wallace even bothered to ask if the Knicks had any interest?

	Mark Jackson is averaging 9 assists per game. Kenny Anderson is
averaging
	4. The fact that they both 'love to dribble" hardly makes them
identical
	players. Beyond that Kenny Anderson makes about twice as much as
Jackson.
	Based on Kenny's year so far, I don't see how he could have possibly
been
	moved.

	>You'd think the front office would at least say "hey we tried
nonstop from
	every
	>angle but everything fell through." 

	Even if they had been trying nonstop, what benefit they have in
announcing
	that? It would purely be some sort of public relations ploy to try
to
	appeal to fans while probably hurting the morale of the team.

	Alex