Re: [Celtic_Pride] ESPN: Johnson, Brown not too thrilled

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

At 10:08 28/04/01 -0400, Josh Farber wrote:
>NEW YORK -- Boston better hope it gets a warmer reception in person from
>Arkansas sophomore Joe Johnson and Okaloosa-Walton (Fla.) Community College
>forward Kedrick Brown.
>Neither seemed terribly excited Wednesday night.
>Johnson was extremely stoic while he was making his media interview rounds.
>He smiled once at the end of his interview with ESPN, but barely. He said
>everything was fine, but he showed absolutely no emotion about being taken
>by the Celtics at the No. 10 pick.
>Brown, who was guaranteed to go in the lottery to the Celtics at No. 11, was
>nearly just as subdued.
>"I'm really excited and can't wait to get things started," Johnson quipped
>without showing a smile. "I thought they needed a great scorer and I can go
>in there and help them."

Interesting. It could be Joe Johnson's initial gut reaction to seeing 
Kedrick Brown and Joe Forte getting drafted after them.

I truly believed this morning's newspaper headlines would read something 
like "Celtics Draft
Three More Paul Pierce Back Ups". So this is kind of my worst fear, actually.

Maybe our Celtics will start to resemble the Redsox clubhouse this year, 
with a roster too deep at certain positions. Already Stith, Carr and 
Griffin see management's "dis" of them written on the wall, and Eric 
Williams and Walter McCarty better get used to fulltime towel waving.

Already, we can look forward to some very heated and aggressive practice 
scrimmages among the veterans and kids, but that's not so bad a thing. You 
want these guys to be competitors. I hope it sorts itself out.

The whole point, in fact, is to get the best talent and let the roster sort 
itself out. For all we know, one or two of these guys will develop so 
quickly that we'll even be able to trade Pierce for a big man or top 
lottery pick next year without missing a beat.

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