Katz says Gasol, Brown and Tinsley in Green

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

Andy Katz has Pau Gasol, Kedrick Brown and Jamaal Tinsley dressed in green, 
and the reasoning and guess work behind all this makes decent sense.

I think many people will be happy with that mix of upside-versus-experience 
and needs-versus-talent, even if we don't get a center or Troy Murphy in 
the deal.

Boston will likely have to wait a year for Gasol (which on the plus side is 
the reason he'd even fall to us in the first place if he can last through 
the 1-6 picks). I'm not sure he's ready to be thrown to the wolves just yet 
anyway....basketball ego being a fragile commodity. I'd love to see Brown 
and Gasol in the Shaw league though!

The just turned 20-year-old Kedrick Brown will either be a force-of-nature 
like Marion was or he will have his work cut out adjusting to the quantum 
leap from Juco to NBA (Earnest Brown Jr). If he's anywhere close to a 
Jordan or even Vince Carter,  basically Chris Wallace can prepare to pose 
for his statue on the bench next to the bronze Red Auerbach statue in 
Quincy Market. Add another Vince Carter and obviously we'd leapfrog 
Milwaukee and Philly I would think, and set our sites on the Zenmeister. 
What's great is he seemingly can pass, rebound and play impact defense. 
He's not just a shooter taking "touches" away from the captains.

Tinsley will play too and help the team chemistry, I'm sure. Maybe get spot 
starter minutes and possibly help the team really gel, as the season 
evolves. The poor guy has been getting dissed no end recently, but he's 
still a far cry from Wayne Turner in terms of base talent. Personally, I 
prefer Tinsley to Omar Cook if  one or the other were to be there at #21. 
Omar got torched by Providence's John Linehan and obliterated by Duke's 
Jason Williams. If he switched teams with Tinsley in college, the Johnnies 
would have performed FAR better down the stretch than they did. He seems to 
have an immature strain of cockiness...any yo yo dribbler will be eaten 
alive by Walker and Pierce's egos, even with Pitino gone, and he's an 
atrocious spot-up shooter.

I say we don't necessarily need to draft a point guard at #21. The #21 slot 
is crying "take the best player available". Lots of intriguing choices 
there, and happily Wallace has worked out the lion's share of guys who 
might fall there.

I imagine Wallace must be feeling stress, but on the other hand he also has 
good reason to think two guys who will help the team and entertain fans 
likely will be available in the WORST case scenario (Kedrick Brown and Troy 
Murphy). The thing is that above them there are ten guys who have been 
consensus top-ten picks for weeks now, which means that at least one other 
player will be available at #10 to upset the whole equation.

If it is Joe Johnson, do you take Joe Johnson and Kedrick Brown? That's not 
an easy question. I hope it is Pau Gasol or Diop.

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