Re: the key to the draft

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

At 10 & 11 I still think we are going to be looking at possibly Gasol due to
his contract buyout which if selected we probably would not see him until
next year,  possibly Diop and Johnson. I don't see any of the others falling
this low. At 11 we will have Radmanovich, Tinsley, Jefferson, Bradley, and
Murphy and Kedrick Brown.

It may depend on what happens with Kenny Anderson. Does he go to Charlotte
for DC, or can we swing a deal for Nazr Mohammed?

 I think if Atlanta takes Kwame Brown they have to get rid of some of the
low post players and we could land Mohammed although he is a free agent and
they could choose not to resign him.

If we could land Mohammed we have somewhat addressed the inside issue if he
plays as well as he did late last year, and we could seek to move Potapenko
or Battie. Unless we think Tinsley is a top floor general,  we need consider
Jefferson to shore up the D and the best big offensive perimeter threat
Gasol, Johnson or Radmanovic.

Adding Mohammed and a few more consistent threats could provide us with a
good nucleus to attract Tim Duncan in 2 years which I believe he will opt
out unless San Antonio can rebuild. Duncan would like to get in the East and
for a team that is missing one piece of the puzzle.


John







----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Ozersky" <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 4:40 AM
Subject: the key to the draft


> Sitting here luxuriating in my contempt for Peter May
> -- the Sunday before the draft, and all he can do is
> to shit out another "go to school" homily for his
> column? -- I've been thinking about the draft.  I
> think I may have stumbled across the key to it.
> Here's how it works:  there is a consensus top ten,
> consisting of
>
> Eddy Curry
> Tyson Chandler
> Kwame Brown
> Eddie Griffin
> Rodney White
> Sagana Diop
> Jason Richardson
> Joe Johnson
> Shane Battier
> Pau Gasol
>
> Now, one of those guys WILL be available to us at ten.
>  We absolutely don't need to trade up to get one.  And
> depending on which one it is will go far toward
> determining who the second guy is.  (Assuming two
> don't fall.)   For example, should Diop fall to us, it
> would make sense to take a polished player like Troy
> Murphy with the second pick.  (Of course, you could
> argue that both picks should be purely based on
> talent, but roster considerations have to matter to
> some extent.) It seems to me that Gasol at ten, with
> no trading up necessary, is actually the least we can
> expect!
>
> So here are some likely combinations:
> Pau Gasol - Kedrick Brown (finesse + toughness)
> Diop - Murphy
> Johnson - Michael Bradley (outside + inside)
> Richardson -- Murphy (althelticism + polish)
> Chandler -- Brown (finesse and toughness)
> Battier -- Brown (leadership and athleticism)
>
> That's the way I would approach it, anyway.  To take,
> say, Joe Johnson and Kedrick Brown really would
> require Wallace to be completely indifferent to
> O'Brien's needs.
>
> Once we have picked ten and eleven, eight players will
> pass before we pick again.  Therefore, we can expect
> to get the best remaining athlete from this group:
>
> Murphy/Brown leftover
> Michael Bradley
> Richard Jefferson
> Vladimir Radmonivic
> Zach Randolph
> Jamal Tinsley
> Joe Forte
> Brendan Haywood
> Loren Woods
> Steven Hunter
> Omar Cook/Tony Parker
>
> Now it's by no means clear that one of the three point
> guards will be who we are left with; in any case, with
> the exception of Joe Forte and Tony Parker, every one
> of these guys has been projected as a lottery pick at
> one time or another.  I don' know if there has ever
> been a better year to have the 21st pick!  Can you
> imagine getting, say, Gasol and Brown at 10+11, and
> then finding yourself with a center as polished and
> talented as Loren Woods, or a forward as gifted as
> Zach Randolph, with the 21st pick?  And yet it is
> bound to happen, even if we only end up with Omar Cook
> or Tony Parker, our "worst case" scenarios.
>
> Hopefully, this is all clear to Wallace and co.
>
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