Re: The importance of scouting

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

We need a great job by someone other than Chris Wallace. As someone
mentioned we don't need to waste these 3 first round picks as the Knicks did
a couple of years ago.

Hopefully if we see the 2 Chinese guys come and the likes of Jason Williams,
Richardson, Joe Forte, Wagner, Diop, and Griffin it will be a fairly deep
draft. It would be nice to land Udonis Haslem for the 4 spot.


Imagine landing a Forte, a Heywood or Gadzuric and Haslem ? Kareem Rush
might have learned from his brothers mistake of leaving too early.
We could move Battie or Moiso


Heywood/Gadzuric VP
Haslem
Walker
Pierce, Sesar
Forte? Frank Williams? Satterfield? Tinsley ? Troy Bell?

I heard we liked Finley and Sura, I wonder who swayed the pick to Eric
Williams ?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hironaka" <j.hironaka@unesco.org>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 12:50 PM
Subject: The importance of scouting


> Sorry this is a followup on my last post, and may seem somewhat
> un-Celtics related or out of place. At Boston's current draft position
> (11, 14, 17), below is a further breakdown of players available in
> previous years. Everyone of these drafts could have helped the Celts a
> great deal, assuming we picked "smaht" instead of "retahded".
>
> The most surprising thing is the number of quality players taken either
> at or after the 17th pick (Michael Finley, Theo Ratliff, PJ Brown, Sam
> Cassell, Jermaine O'Neil, Rashard Lewis and so on). This really puts the
> onus on quality scouting, and makes the second half of the draft more
> intriguing than it might normally appear.
>
> We'll need a great job by Chris Wallace and for the leprechaun to smile
> on us one more time. BTW, I know I'm jumping the gun with this draft
> talk and that many of you could care less about this subject at this
> moment. I guess all the NCAA goings-on has me thinking about it.
> Definitely a great tournament so far. I'm rooting for Boston (BC Eagles)
> to "Beat LA" (USC).
>
> I'd also love it tonight if we delivered a can of whupass on our
> favorite trade partner Dan Issel, as per usual, and hope we are
> energetic tonight despite the B2B.  I plan to tune in to the game even
> from my Euro time zone. Pierce only played three quarters last night, so
> who knows he might go for a hat-trick tonight with another 40 game. That
> would be a treat.
>
> Go Celts Go!
>
>
> Here were the options with picks 11, 14 and 17+.
>
> 1993
> 11th- Allan Houston
> 14th- Scott Burrell or Rex Walters?
> 17th- Sam Cassell, Chris Mills or Ervin Johnson
>
> (2nd round draft picks included Nick Van Exel and Bryon Russell)
>
> ---------
>
> 1994
> 11th- Jalen Rose
> 14th- Eric Piatkowski
> 17th- Aaron McKie or Wes Person
>
> (2nd round draft picks included Howard Eisley, Michael "The Animal"
> Smith, Voshon Lenard and Lawrence Funderburke)
>
> ---------
>
> 1995
> 11th- Gary Trent or Corliss Williamson
> 14th- Alan Henderson or Brent Barry
> 17th- Theo Ratliff or Michael Finley
>
> (2nd round draft pick Eric Snow)
>
> ---------
>
> 1996
> 11th- Kobe Bryant
> 14th- Predrag Stojakovic
> 17th- Jermaine O'Neil
>
> (2nd round draft picks included Othella Harrington and Shandon Anderson)
>
> ---------
>
> 1997
> 11th- Derek Anderson
> 14th- Maurice Taylor
> 17th- Bobby Jackson
>
> (2nd round draft picks included this year's ROY candidate Marc Jackson
> of GS and Stephen Jackson of the Nets, along with Alvin Williams and
> Mark Blount)
>
> ---------
>
> 1998
> 11th- Bonzi Wells
> 14th- Michael Dickerson
> 17th- Euro-prospects Nesterovic, Turcan and Stepania went at around this
> stage. But here's where it gets really interesting. 2nd round draft
> picks included Rashard Lewis, Cuttino Mobley, Ruben Patterson, Shammond
> Williams and Jahidi White.
>
> ---------
>
> 1999
> 11th- Corey Maggette? (Jason Terry went 10th overall)
> 14th- Ron Artest
> 17th- James Posey or Vonteego Cummings
>
> (Todd MacCulloch, Wang Zhi Zhi in the second round)
>
> --------
>
> A few more drafts:
>
> 1992
> Players available with a 17th pick: Eric Murdoch, Rick Fox, Randy Brown,
> Bobby Phils and Zan Tabak. Either Dale Davis or Terrell Brandon were
> available at #11.
>
> 1993
> Players available with a 17th pick: Doug Christie, PJ Brown, Matt
> Geiger, Hubert Davis, Tracy Murray, Oliver Miller, Jon Barry etc.) At
> #11-14 only Robert Horry and Bryant Stith are still in the NBA, while
> Harold Minor and Malik Sealy are gone.
>
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>
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