re: Eric Williams

[Roy Enrile <renrile@qualcomm.com>]

I think the paragraph below was dead on, except for one thing... the three
rooks look alot MORE polished than E.W.

There are a few positives to Williams:
-He's always been in great shape his second time around with Boston.
 (Probably influenced by the C's strength/conditioning coach, who was 
 the strength coach when E.W. played for Providence.

-He's not afraid of contact(charges), and always hustles.

-Trying to fit the role of defensive stopper/motivator on this team is a
 smart, well intentioned idea.

But he's currently my least favorite Celtic because of the dumb
floorgame he plays after all these years, his low upside, and his high
salary.  There are 6'8 low priced CBA players that can contribute what
Eric does.

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, bird wrote:

> It's a 
> role that has been assigned to him rather than he having earned it, if you 
> see my meaning here.  They _say_ he's one, so he is one.  Well, I ain't 
> buying it.  He's just not that good a defender, is streaky (to say the 
> least) from outside, and has a good inside offensive game (oh, and he can 
> slash to the basket pretty well, too), but he stagnates the offensive like 
> some critics of Walker think Antoine does: the ball goes to him and that's 
> it.  That, and he has no real floor game: doesn't pass very well and is a 
> poor rebounder.  I can't figure out why the coaching staff seems so 
> enamored of him.  It's a very bad sign if he gets a lot of minutes at the 
> expense of those rookies who are less polished but more talented right now 
> (K. Brown, maybe Forte).  If EW is the sixth man on this team I'll do 
> something rash.