Re: Missed this earlier... Celts deny Vancouver trade rumor

["j.hironaka" <j.hironaka@unesco.org>]

Herald:
>``We'll listen, but we're not picking up the phone right now,'' said
>personnel director Leo Papile. ``We'll return calls, but I have to tell you
>we like what we see in this draft, very much so, all the way down to 21.
>Everybody knows our number and we'll listen, but this is not some fire sale
>where we're looking to dump picks. I think that the long-term plan here is
>starting to come through. The chickens are coming home to roost (..)

Does Leo have to use a poultry metaphor!?

RealGM says:
>http://www.realgm.com/src_gm_articles.php?artid=draft_report2
>Six players make what I call the second tier of the first round: Pau 
>Gasol, DeSagana Diop, Jason Richardson, Rodney White, Tyson Chandler and 
>Joe Johnson. There is general agreement that these players will be taken 
>in the fifth through tenth slots in the draft, but not in what order they 
>will go.

I really hope Loren Woods joins that "second tier" list so that Boston can 
actually have a shot at two rather than one player among the leftovers 
(Richardson, White, Johnson, Chandler, Gasol, Diop) with our 10th and 11th 
picks.

But I think the two players most likely to be available at #10 are Diop and 
Chandler (or one of them plus Woods). If any of the wing guys slips through 
the cracks that would be nice. In the Diop and Chandler scenario, I somehow 
doubt we would take both high schoolers, which means Rado, Murphy or others 
enter the picture. It is a fairly dicey draft position to be in, but I 
guess it ALWAYS seems that way to fans. Whoever has the 12th pick is 
probably complaining that the draft is only 11 players deep.

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