Re: Sonics game

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

Right, I'm not giving up on JJ. Just that he'd be better in college playing
than shining benches. His young bones are going to get very rusty here.
Summer camp will do him a world of good.

L8ter
DanF
----- Original Message -----
From: "Orion" <johnlyell@hotmail.com>
To: "Dan Forant" <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>; "Celtics Emai List"
<Celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: Sonics game


> I would not give up on Johnson yet. Maybe it's just McCarty and Williams
are
> the ones being showcased for a trade? I would make the Van Exel move
> regardless of the last year of his contract and give JJ and Kedrick time
at
> the 3 spot, and move Paul back to the 2 guard.
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> When Pierce and Walker are off like last night we just don't have another
go
> to guy. I think people are dreaming if they think Battie can be anything
> close to Parish for more then a couple of games. Although I expected a lot
> more of him out of college this guy just has not shown he can bring it
> nightly and too frequently gets abused by more physical players because he
> really is a 4. Maybe we just move Antoine to the 3 spot, battie to the 4
and
> try like hell to get Marc Jackson to fill the middle. yeah AW has his
> weaknesses but we will have to live with them. Maybe we can swap V for Ike
> Austin? He can't be that much worse can he?  We still need to dump Palacio
&
> Blount 2 useless players.
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> Pierce
> Walker Johnson
> Battie
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Forant" <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>
> To: "Celtics Emai List" <Celtics@igtc.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 3:23 AM
> Subject: Re: Sonics game
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> > Although the chemistry may be off for a few games, I would make the
trade.
> > Anderson has been having a good year but XL would ad the fire power we
> need.
> > Johnson isn't getting playing time lately because he sucks and we can't
> > afford to build up his mind and confidence in games we need to win. He
> can't
> > be showing signs of recovery in practice or he'd be getting time. He
> should
> > have stayed in College and on the teat for another year.
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> > L8ter
> > DanF
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Orion" <johnlyell@hotmail.com>
> > To: <celtics@igtc.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 1:14 AM
> > Subject: Sonics game
> >
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> > > An ugly game we were dominated by the 2nd and 3rd string centers. This
> > > Drobnjak guy looked decent running the floor well at something like
260.
> > Much
> > > more athletic than V. Why do these no-name big guys always put up
> numbers
> > > against the C's?
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> > > Pull the trigger on Van Exel deal.  We need a third scoring option
bad.
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> > > is up with Johnson getting no playing time?
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> > > John