Re: No trades!

[bird <birdwl@earthlink.net>]

On Thursday, February 7, 2002, at 07:39 PM, gh18@juno.com wrote:

> Since your name is Bird.  I hope you realize that you played small
> forward without the lateral movement to defend small forwards.  You had
> help from power forwards by the name of Mchale and Maxwell who had the
> ability to be dominate in the post and the ability to guard small and
> power forwards.

I hope you realize that I share very little with Larry Joe Bird -- other 
than his last name and overall white geekiness.  *I* had nothing to do 
with anything you mentioned -- other than following along.  Excitedly.  In 
admiration.  With great pride.  The normal fan stuff.  I *did* enjoy you 
on "The Brady Bunch", though, Greg -- you're a hoot what with the curly 
hair and bell bottoms and all!

> Walker is a point forward and until you realize that, teams with big
> lineups will continue to dominate us.  You give Way/Ray a lot of grief.
> However, I think his post are better than the ones you have posted
> lately.

Oooh, a zinger.  Then you, sir, are one whose opinion I couldn't care less 
about, if you enjoy the resident troll's posts.  Perhaps you'd care to 
expound on how the team "sucks"?  If *only* they'd done what you wanted in 
the last draft?  How's Ernest Brown doing for the Globetrotters .. er, 
Heat, is it?  Of course.  Perhaps you'd care to adopt a pseudonym and 
start posting only when the team's losing, er, that is, when you're not 
"busy"?  Yes, yes, feel free.

You might have realized, had you been around long enough and/or had cared 
to look through the archives, that I was one of the first to "harp" on 
Walker being best utilized at the small forward position, but, unlike 
others, I have the sentience to realize when something's not going to 
happen and act accordingly.  Others do not have the same ability, it seems.
   Constant pipe dreams about how, if we acquired a low-post power forward,
  we could *finally* move Antoine Walker to the three.  Guess what?  We had 
that guy - his name is Danny Fortson and he's among the league leaders in 
rebounding.  But, we tried to use him at center and then discarded him.  
Now, you might say, that is what Pitino did and we have a new regime.  
True, but has Jim O'Brien ever given the *slightest* hint that he'd want 
to move Walker to small forward?  Ever?  How about Wallace, what with 
drafting no big man and three guys who play (PG)/SG/SF?  Anyone in the 
organization *ever* once intimated that this (moving Walker to the three) 
was the master plan?  I mean, other than "come in to camp in Scottie 
Pippen shape"?  Ever *once*, Greg?  Tell it to me -- I'd love to hang it 
on my "Wish it would have happened, but never did" board.

I'm just sick of the constant pipe dreams, one of which ("let's move 
Walker to the three") really chaps my hide, because it's not going to 
happen.  (The others are the usual "let's trade Walter McCarty for Baron 
Davis" crap.)  Thank god it's only a five minute game, though.  That's 
what keeps me sane.  If you can't deal with the fact that no one in the 
Boston Celtics organization is thinking of moving Antoine Walker to the 
small forward position, then I don't know what to tell you.  I'd like to 
see that happen, myself, but I'm not foolish enough to design trades in 
which we would finally acquire that "bruiser power forward" because 
Antoine Walker is going to play 42 minutes at power forward for virtually 
every game, no matter how badly Mark Berry hates that -- and if Walker's 
out, we're screwed -- Paul Pierce notwithstanding.

By the way, is it really all about me realizing that Walker is a point 
forward?  Will teams with big lineups stop "dominating" us if I realize 
that?  I realize it!  I realize it!  Eureka!  Another 5-10 wins this year.
   Woo hoo!

Glad I could help.

Bird