RE: Look For Chris Wallace To Be Brought Up On Murder Charges

["James A. Hill" <jahill@leasingservice.com>]

Hindsight is always better, no question about it.  I mean who would you want
as your center, Pervis or Parrish?  Montross?, Earl? Moiso? etc... The
Celtics have not drafted well, in hindsight, for years.  They got lucky with
Pierce falling.

Character is very important I think.  It seems like we did get good
character guys this past draft.

>I  believe the jury is still out on Haywood btw.  Calling him potentially
>the best C in the east ain't zactly sayin much is it really?

Oh I don't know about that.  It's better then not having the best center in
our division.  Who would you rather have, a starting C or a non-starting
swing man or three?  It sure seems that the starters have more value to a
team then the bench guys.  I would think that Haywood would be starting on
the Celtics right now.  In hindsight, wouldn't you feel pretty darn good
about a potential starting lineup of: Haywood, Walker, KB, Pierce + Tinsley
in a couple years?  In hindsight, I sure would.  But this is just
conversation stuff.  We have who we have. We also could have picked three
guys, who like Moiso or Earl, will never contribute anything of value to the
team.  So we're ahead of many of our past drafts already.

As I have written in before, I think these guys will contribute to this
team.  Everybody saw what JJ can do.  I don't know why he is having his
troubles now but he seems to have the skills to play at this level.  We saw
glimpses of KB.  A couple of blocks he had showed some special skills.  Then
you have JF who's all around game may make him a great 6-7th guy for this
team in a couple years. Kind of like a Strickland or Williams today.

I personally felt the team need to gamble on a big man or a PG in the past
draft just because we had three picks.  A lot of teams management with more
knowledge then me passed on Tinsley and Parker so who knows what the inside
scoop was.  I would have taken Woods at 21, as a gamble, but JF may be in
the league longer.

We'll see what this draft class is in a couple years.  Right now Way has a
point, in hindsight of course.

<Jim


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-----Original Message-----
From: Cecil Wright [mailto:cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 2:18 PM
To: James A. Hill; Celtics (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Look For Chris Wallace To Be Brought Up On Murder Charges


I know that some selections after ours have performed better. thus far.  But
the draft is one big crapshoot anyway.  Stray mentioned something about
Kedrick possibly being injury-prone.  Didn't mention that about Tinsley
though.  Hasn't he been injured?

And as for the big man thing, harken back to when Portland selected Bowie
when they coulda had Jordan.  They needed a big man.  Therefore they made
the right choice right?

Not in hindsight...and that is my point...we need to give it more than a few
months before the final determination can be made.

I  believe the jury is still out on Haywood btw.  Calling him potentially
the best C in the east ain't zactly sayin much is it really?  That may be
why Wallace has chosen not to draft one yet, feeling that the right guy
wasn't there.  He may have another card up his sleeve pertaining to a draft
pick or a trade.  We just don't know unless Wallace speaks directly to
someone on this list other than Josh.

Thank God we are 26-17 or it would be unbearable.

Cecil


----- Original Message -----
From: "James A. Hill" <jahill@leasingservice.com>
To: "Celtics (E-mail)" <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 6:49 AM
Subject: Re: Look For Chris Wallace To Be Brought Up On Murder Charges


> Unfortunately there are a few players chosen after ours that are... One is
> going to be Rookie MVP, another potentially THE dominate center in the
east
> for a few years (after Mutombo).  Hence the questioning of Wallace's
> choices.
>
> I doubt they expected JJ to fall to 10.  They had pre-planed to take KB at
> 11.  Who was the projected 10 then?  A big guy maybe?
> <Jim
>
> Cecil rightfully pointed out:
> >You can't expect these guys to come in at 19-20 years of age and not
> >struggle for some time against the greatest players in the world.  There
> are
> >very few exceptions.
>
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Jim Hill
> mailto:jahill@leasingservice.com