Re: No trades!

[gh18@juno.com]

Forston was could not defend.  Therefore, he does not fit the prototype
power forward to compliment Walker.  The power forward must be able to
defend not only in the post, but on the perimeter.  Again, I repeat
Mchale and Maxwell type power forwards.  Forston will give you 13
rebounds, but his man will score 20 or more points and have 10 rebounds

Do you remember the great trade "Vitaly for the eighth Pick in the
draft"?  You do not trade to slightly improve.  The trade must be
significant and the player must be able to come in and make a difference.
 






> 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
> 
> 


Greg
gh18@juno.com
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