Re: Draft Comments and Answers

["Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>]

Since when is that criterion for Ray to bless us with his wisdom????????

:-)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Shailendra Mishra" <shailendra_mishra@yahoo.com>
To: "Way Of The Ray" <wayray@ix.netcom.com>; <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: Draft Comments and Answers


>
>  Ray,
> Just one question, have you seen brown play, workout or practice. - Mishra
>   Way Of The Ray <wayray@ix.netcom.com> wrote: DC: Leo Papile calls
Kedrick Brown the "poor man's Vince Carter".
>
> A: Super, maybe the Celtics can add the poor man's Larry Bird:
> Leo Rautins, and the poor man's Michael Jordan (so
> inconsequential that I've forgotten his name) to the roster
> this summer. They're both looking for work.
>
> Celtics need the Vince Carter's Vince Carter, not the
> poor man's VC. I'm always leery of players being described as
> "poor man's" anything.
>
> DC: Joe Forte was a great pick up.
>
> A: Absolutely. Talent via shooting and rebounding and the
> perfect opportunity to showcase said talent. Should be the
> starting shooting guard with JoJo coming off the bench as
> the sixth man. I don't know where they're going to find time
> for the poor man's VC, but Forte starts over JoJo because
> he's a great spot-up shooter, while JoJo is more of a
> slasher. With Walker and Pierce being double-teamed,
> Forte will be there to spot up for open un-covered shots -
> a situation that embellishes his greatest strength and negates
> the double coverage that gives him trouble.
>
>
> DC: Celtics did the right thing by not trading up in the draft, because
> the level of talent between the higher and lower lottery picks
> was equivalent.
>
> A: This is such a load of hooey, it's beyond mauve. Wrong,
> wrong, and more wrong. I'll take my chances with Gasol, Brown,
> Richardson, Griffin, White, and one or two of the high-schoolers,
> than the two good players the C's got at 10 and 11. One very good
> player is worth two good players anytime.
>
> With last year's draft however, you could have made the case
> that the 13th player chosen: Courtney Alexander turned out to
> be a better talent than the first pick Martin. But not with this year's
> proceedings. The guys the Celtics drafted at 10 and 11 will not
> be in the upper echelon of players selected in this draft. Those
> upper echelon types will mainly be comprised of players
> chosen ahead of the Celtics picks and a few stragglers
> below, perhaps someone like a Richard Jefferson or even
> Forte, who the Celtics were quite lucky to get, and may turn out to
> be somewhere between the 6th and 9th best player in the draft.
>
> DC: The Celtics showed a lot of guts taking a Juco player at
> number 11.
>
> A: Sorry, but the C's in order to get Johnson at 10, cut a deal
> with Arn Tellem to take his other client Brown at 11. As far
> as I'm concerned, Brown's draft status was artificially inflated
> by the agreement the Celtics reached with Tellem. Had Brown
> opened himself up to more workouts, his list of flaws would
> have been catalogued by the talent evaluators, and his real
> draft position -- somewhere between 19 and 28 -- would have
> been firmly established.
> Ray
>
>
>
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