Re: Dejuan Wagner & Alton Ford & Springer Suggests Trade

[Kestutis.Kveraga@dartmouth.edu (Kestutis Kveraga)]

--- You wrote:
Meanwhile, Shira Springer suggests a Celtics deal, using
Moiso as an example of what you can end up with
at the 10/11th pick in the draft:
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What a moron she is (Cofman is another one). To wit:

"If the Celtics need good reason to think deal before draft, they should look
no farther than Jerome Moiso. The rookie, who was chosen with the 11th pick in
the 2000 draft, was seldom used and it's unclear what role, if any, he will
play in the future."

+++The thought that she's comparing #11 in the worst draft in recent memory to
#10-11 in  the best one apparently never enters her mind. Nor does she consider
the fact that Moiso was a Pitino pick - a man who haughtily thought he could
mold anyone with a great physical ability into an NBA player (I suggest
androgen supplementation therapy for Moiso, or being coached by someone like
Pat Riley). Wallace/Papile are presumably free of such delusions of grandeur
and may have the ability to judge other important attributes of a player as
well. At least they should get a chance to show it,  if their "picks" in past
drafts (overridden by Pitino) are not revisionist history. 

"He is a case study in what the Celtics could be dealing with if they choose
underclassmen with perceived upside at the No. 10 or 11 spots. The Celtics need
to make off-season moves that are going to generate immediate impact,
especially considering their stated goal of making the playoffs next season." 

+++No, they don't. Do the names Tracy McGrady, Kobe Bryant, Jermaine O'Neal,
Darius Miles ring a bell, Shira? (Probably not).  

"They could be better off trading for talent with NBA experience, which offers
more assurances of filling the Celtics needs at point guard and for scoring
punch. . . . "

+++Such as? Offer a single realistic scenario that would benefit the Celtics
and work under the salary cap! (But that would actually require a bare-minimum
knowledge of the NBA's workings, its players, the salary cap, and...gulp...
thinking!)

Gawd, how do people like that get hired to write for a major metropolitan
newspaper?! 

Kestas