Re: Defense

["hironaka@xxxxxxxxx"<hironaka@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kim. One thing to add, those analyses were a year old. 
Baker played marginally better last year.

If Baker could get you 7+ rebounds per game, his true 
market value might be around 8 million per year...not 
THAT far from his current figure (60% of it). After all, 
don't non-starting NBA centers average just over 5 
million in salary according to Chad Ford? 

BTW, I liked Potapenko a lot and enjoyed his play while 
he was a Celtic. My wife is going to be sad to see him go 
too. But this trade wasn't some unidirectional salary 
dump either. Boston got out of a potential 
Geiger/Zydrunas type quagmire by moving VP's contract. 

I think we can consider that as an achievement, although 
had we kept Vitaly I still think he would have better 
future trade value than Eric Williams, given the nature 
of his position.

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> From    : owner-celtics@igtc.com
> To      : "hironaka@nomade.fr"<hironaka@nomade.fr>, 
celtics@igtc.com
> Cc      : 
> Date    : Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:30:44 -0400
> Subject : Re: Defense
> 
> At 09:49 PM 7/22/02 +0200, hironaka@nomade.fr wrote:
> >On the face of it, Shammond and Vinnie seem like
> >potential coach killers. I guess some would argue 
that's
> >not a bad thing in our case.
> >
> >What stands out most is their poor defense, if
> >sonicscentral.com is to be believed. How will Chris
> >Wallace justify adding guys who get "D"s and "F"s on
> >defense?
> 
> Yeah but the same could be -and was- said about the 
entire existing Cs team 
> before last year when O'B brought Harter in. When 
cripes, they even got KA 
> played defense, probably for the first time in his 
career. While Vinnie 
> will have the advantage here of mostly having to try to 
play D vs eastern 
> centers.
> 
> Kim
> 
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