Re: Newest NBA superstar!/Auerbach

["Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>]

Good post John!!!!

Cecil


----- Original Message -----
From: "Orion" <johnlyell@hotmail.com>
To: <Georgek27@AOL.com>; <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: Newest NBA superstar!/Auerbach


> > I am absolutely shocked that the other organizations in the NBA are not
> begging the members of this list to come and run their organizations since
> we
> > are so much smarter than Red, Chris, etc. Hell, we're so smart that we
can
> judge NBA talent by watching TV and/or reading boxscores -- we don't even
> > have to travel that's another cost saving to an organization.
> >
> > Get a grip everyone.
> >
> > George
>
>
>
> Looking at the league, I think most of the other organizations have just
> about as good, or even worse luck at talent evaluation.  The Clippers went
> through years of having top 5 picks and still have not really fully moved
up
> significantly. I do like their last few drafts and the Brand acquisition.
I
> really like Quentin Richardson. Golden State has been pretty poor, as has
> Memphis and most others. Only a few like the Lakers and I think Indiana is
> on the right track have been able to take an old team and rebuild quickly
> through good decisions
>
> Wasn't just a short time ago that everyone was blasting Pitino for his
poor
> trade decisions?  At least he was not afraid to try to make deals to make
> them better. There is a lot more to it then just looking at box scores,
but
> these guys do get paid for this, and sorry to say, have done little to
> improve this team over the last decade of draft debacles. This is a fact
> that is difficult for anyone to argue. Little decisions like dumping key
> role players like David Wesley, trading what could have been Andre Miller
> for an unproven center,  have hurt this team.
>
> As Josh mentioned, Paul and Antoine are our franchise players. They task
> will be to put the right role players like a Wesley, Mario Elie, Jerry
> Sichting, around them
> to add value. This is where the winners are successful and always have
been.
>
>
> John.