Re: Daily News

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, Joe Mitch has it correct. However it just goes to show us what little
help can make us a much better team because we have Pierce and Walker. Some
say Rodney was fast to the basket. Well he seldom used it in my opinion. He
did what he got paid for, nothing more, nothing less.

DanF
----- Original Message -----
From: <hironaka@nomade.fr>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 11:01 AM
Subject: Daily News


> Mitch Lawrence calls Rogers "a standstill shooter with a
> history of weight problems" and says the Exit 16W's "have
> gotten older and slower with their three major offseason
> moves."
>
>
>
> http://nydailynews.com/front/v-pfriendly/story/11051p-
> 10417c.html
> Nets jolly to add Rogers
> By MITCH LAWRENCE
> DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
> Thursday, August 15th, 2002
>
> First there was veteran guard Chris Childs. Then, the
> graybeard of graybeards, Dikembe Mutombo. And now, the
> nine-year journeyman forward, Rodney Rogers.
>
> See a trend here? For the Nets, it's receding hairlines
> and old knees covered with icepacks. After running their
> way to the Eastern Conference championship last season,
> they've gotten older and slower with their three major
> offseason moves.
>
> Gone are Keith Van Horn, 26, Todd MacCulloch, 26, and
> Anthony Johnson, 28. OK, so there are no Carl Lewises in
> that trio. But the players the Nets have added - Mutombo
> maintains he's 36, Childs is almost 35 and Rogers is 31 -
> are all walk-it-up halfcourt players.
>
> The Nets' spin is that they've still got speed to burn
> with Jason Kidd, Richard Jefferson, Kenyon Martin and
> Kerry Kittles. They also think that the addition of the
> three vets brings much-needed toughness and a wealth of
> postseason experience. On paper, the Nets will be favored
> to repeat as conference champions, something that hasn't
> happened since Michael Jordan's Bulls in 1998.
>
> "We've added players who have played in a lot of big
> games before, and I think that will help," team president
> Rod Thorn said. "We had great chemistry last year. How
> these moves affect that, we won't know until we get on
> the court and see how the different personalities mesh."
>
> Added coach Byron Scott: "We still have our youthfulness,
> but we've added the experience of older guys who know
> what it takes to get back to the Finals."
>
> Just don't look for the second unit to run opponents off
> the floor. Rogers, who signed yesterday for three years
> at around $9.3 million, is a standstill shooter with a
> history of weight problems. He wants to start, but Scott
> already has given the job to Jefferson.
>
> How did the Nets end up with Rogers when Minnesota had
> more money to offer? The Timberwolves could have started
> Rogers at around $4.5 million with the mid-level
> exception - a figure his agent, James Williams, insisted
> on - compared to the $2.75 million he'll get from the
> Nets in year two.
>
> But the T-Wolves ultimately decided that Rogers wasn't
> worth the entire mid-level figure. They tried selling him
> on splitting the mid-level so that they could also sign
> Travis Best or Troy Hudson to play point guard. But
> Rogers, who was the 2000 Sixth Man Award winner in
> Phoenix playing with Kidd, decided to be reunited with
> his ex-teammate.
>
> "He always told me he wanted to get me to come to New
> Jersey, so we can play together again," said Rogers, who
> averaged 12points per game for the Celtics and Suns last
> season. "But the Nets are all about winning and that's
> what I'm about."
>
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