Re: The Boston Celtics Mailing List Digest V9 #247

[bird <birdwl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: GuyClinch@xxxxxxx
>
> I don't see why Kim keeps calling him a Journeyman...those guys sign for 
> the
> minimum salary, not 3 mill plus. Journeyman aren't traded for first round
> draft picks;
> journeyman don't shoot higher percentages then team "stars" (Walker) and
> journeyman don't possess likely one of the sweetest three pointers in the 
> NBA
> and pull Superstar Centers right out of the playoffs. Nor do journeyman 
> win
> sixth men of the year awards. Mark Blount will be a Journeyman...Milt
> Palacio..maybe..
> But Rodney Rodgers..the guy is solid.
I tended towards agreement with you, more or less, in your last post, but 
I think that "journeyman" isn't the pejorative you think it is.  The word 
that comes to mind when I think "journeyman" is indeed, "solid".  I think 
the tendency nowadays is to think of "journeyman" as like "no one wants 
him enough to keep him around, so he journeys around".  That's really not 
the origin of the "journey" part of the term.  Rodney Rogers is a great 
example of a "good-quality journeyman" in the NBA.  Mark Blount is a 
terrible, terrible example of one.  Blount is a marginal player.  He 
should fit it very well in Denver.  To me, journey are *exactly* the types 
of players who should win Sixth Men awards, and everything else you 
mentioned.  In today's league, though, talent is spread around so thinly 
that journeymen are in higher demand.

Still, we're all just basically arguing about what to call Rogers.  
Peoples' estimates of his talent are remarkably close together.  (Except 
for Kim's position that he was slow.)  As is the distaste for the 
reasoning behind letting him go.  As is the disgust for the place he ended 
up in.  I think that even people who really are in favor of the Baker 
trade would have wanted Rogers to stay.  Or at least not minded if he did.
  You know you're doing something wrong when you can get most (?) of the 
igtc Celts list to agree.

Bird