Re: [Celtic_Pride] "We are just soooo thrilled."

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

Looking on the bright side, of course, but maybe in a few years these kids 
will be so good we could trade one for a Mike Bibby or a Theo Ratliff. I 
think you never go wrong drafting "BPA".

To me it would be far worse to look back on this draft and think, geez we 
were this close to getting so-and-so (in this case Kedrick Brown) at #11 
but we took a pass on it because it wasn't a "need".

I'd think of Johnson and Brown as really two chances to end up with one 
great player in the Shawn Marion/Lamar Odom mold. That's better odds to me 
than having one chance plus one safe "need" pick. I think Boston did the 
right thing sticking to their BPA draft board, in the most difficult 
circumstances possible (a similar player falling to them at #10)

Naturally, I wish we already HAD Shawn Marion or Andre Miller on our team 
so we wouldn't be talking about this. ;-)

Joe

p.s. If Boston wasn't sold on Kedrick Brown, I guarantee they would have 
broken the deal off. Who cares about Arn Tellem? It's not like we can 
afford any free agents anyway under the cap structure. Now if he's Paul 
Pierce's agent or something, I might buy into the coercion theory.;-)  But 
let's face it Pierce is going to sign for the maximum anyway.

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At 07:38 28/06/01 -0400, you wrote:
>    As it happens every year, the team got exactly who they wanted and the
>players are just so thrilled to be coming to Boston and all that.
>    I am happy with  Johnson and Forte as players and we had need to fill our
>wing spots. Both players have potential to help out at the point and can
>defend. Nice picks.
>    The mystery for all of us seems to be the Kendrick Brown saga. According
>to the Bulpet article this AM, Leo Papile schemed to keep Brown away from
>other teams by plotting with Arn Tellem. The C's quarranteed a lottery pick
>and Tellem kept Browm from workouts.
>    Very mysterious, very strange, considering no one else was thinking of
>drafting Brown, although the reasoning was, that he is so good, that after
>workouts, eveyone would be after him. My question though: if he's so good,
>why take Johnson also? They play the same position.
>    Many of us felt the need at point guard and rebounding /interior defense.
>We got no help there. Admittedly the highly rated centers were gone and no
>one else wanted the point guards either.
>    O'Brien wants a team to play the perimeter and shoot threes, well he's
>got it.
>    They say this group has the ability to run, but with no point guard to
>lead the break and no rebounder to outlet the ball, I don't see it.
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