Re: Bad Salary Cap News

["Orion" <johnlyell@hotmail.com>]

Two bad signings were Blount an Palacio. Josh you should run this by Chris
Wallace for some inside info. We still need to cut Blount loose, he just
plain sucks. I'd take a chance on the Bison!

2002 could be deep for points so maybe they think they have a chance at a
Frank Williams, Troy Bell, Dan Dickau or Juan Dixon all of which probably
have better scoring ability than Parker and Tinsley.

But that still does not support the decision for taking Forte unless they
feel he has trade value. Maybe we will take one of the guards mentioned
above and move him and Forte to Charlotte for Baron Davis. Baron Davis could
change the Celtics like Kidd has changed Jersey.

We still have to solve the low post problem and Haywood would have helped.

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh O." <igtcjosh@yahoo.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: Bad Salary Cap News


> To me, this is really the crux of criticizing this
> year's draft.  I'm fine with the first two picks.
> They wanted to add the best scorer possible, so they
> got JJ, and he delivered before turning overnight into
> a voodoo zombie.  He'll be OK, i'm guessing.  In any
> case, it's a highly defensible pick, given his
> sky-high skill level.  Brown gives us a VC type
> athlete with a great attitude and huge upside.
> Another great move for the future, which I applaud.
> Potential moves for Eddie Griffin or Pau Gasol amount
> to speculative fiction.  And I can even see passing on
> Tony Parker and Jamal Tinsley, since they have had an
> opportunity to play and Joe Forte hasn't.  (I would
> have taken either over Joe, but the jury is still
> out.)
>
> With that having been said, though, we absolutely
> should have tried to swap places with whoever it was
> that drafted Haywood at 20.  This guy is a legit big
> man, and everybody knew it.  And I think you have to
> believe that we passed on him because Chris Wallace
> believed in his center committee.  And Chris Wallace
> didn't think of his center committee as Tony Battie
> and Vitaly Potapenko; he thought of Mark Blount as a
> legit big man.  I'm thinking that it was the
> overestimation of Blount that cost us Haywood.  If
> Wallace had known how bad Blount is, he would have at
> least tried to work a deal for Haywood, or even Loren
> Woods.  It's almost unheard-of to get a legitimate
> starting center at the 20th pick; we really struck out
> there.  I believe Joe Forte will show himself as a
> skilled and heady player, a clutch scorer who will
> distinguish himself in the league; but big men are a
> far more precious commodity, and Haywood is big,
> atheltic, fundamentally sound, and comes to play.
> Washington is in a great situation, with two terrific
> young centers on their roster.  I wish we had either
> of them, with all due respect to mssrs. Battie,
> Potapenko, and Blount.
>
> Josh
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Way Of The Ray <wayray@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > According to Peter May -- who's the husband of a
> > Pulitzer Prize winner
> > --
> > in Sunday's Globe, the salary cap will be going down
> > next season for the
> >
> > first time in awhile. Right now it's at $42.5, but
> > even with the new TV
> > contract,
> > it's expected to drop. And teams expect a luxury tax
> > for the 2002 - 2003
> >
> > season. May says "that doesn't bode well for the
> > Celtics...", and it
> > certainly
> > doesn't, as it restricts the Celtics to either
> > trading for or drafting a
> > Big Man.
> >
> > Where the Celtics are going to be drafting for the
> > next few years,
> > they're
> > going to need a lucky break or a right evaluation on
> > a foriegn player to
> >
> > find a Big Man.
> >
> > Via a trade, you gotta have something other teams
> > would want in a deal,
> > and as always, shooting guards are a dime a dozen.
> > It's a lot easier to
> > trade a
> > big man for a smaller man, than vice versa, as you
> > have to overpay for
> > size.
> >
> > Ray
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