Re: Erick Strickland info

["Shawn Niles" <shizzjr@hotmail.com>]

We keep hearing El-Amin's name, but doesn't it mean anything to anyone that 
he has been cut by at least 3 teams in the last year? He couldn't make it 
last year as the 3rd PG on a horrible Bulls team. If he is so good Mark, why 
do all these teams keep cutting him?


>From: "Berry, Mark  S" <berrym@BATTELLE.ORG>
>To: "'j.hironaka@unesco.org'" <j.hironaka@unesco.org>,   
>"'celtics@igtc.com'" <celtics@igtc.com>,   
>"'celticsstuffgroup@yahoogroups.com'"  <celticsstuffgroup@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: Re: Erick Strickland info
>Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:04:13 -0500
>
>I don't want to come off like Ray and just indiscriminately criticize
>everything the Celtics do at this point, but this move, if made, is another
>head-scratcher.
>
>Erick Strickland isn't a bad player. But he's not a point guard. He'd be a
>fine pickup if you didn't have Milt, Randy Brown and Joe Forte, who aren't
>point guards either, also pretending to be point guards. Or Paul Pierce, 
>Joe
>Johnson, Forte and Eric "Mr. Defense" Williams playing shooting guard.
>
>I guess my point is this: Use that 15th roster spot for someone who can
>provide something this team lacks. Maybe that's a true point guard like
>El-Amin or Cook. Maybe it's a rebounder (my preference) like Derek Strong.
>Maybe it's a veteran like Derrick McKey.
>
>It's nothing against Strickland. Just explain to me how he helps the team.
>
>Mark