PG draft

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

I don't know where I read it exactly, but there was some 
talk from the Celts that 2003 could be a deep draft for 
point guards (right now it doesn't seem like a deep draft 
for anything).

Compared to recent years, I'm not convinced this will be 
the case. 

There is one guy with all the tools: 6-1 Chris Duhon at 
Duke. There's no reason to expect he'd be around into the 
mid-teens of round one. 

And there is 6-2 Luke Ridnour in the Pac 10, a guy I know 
nothing about. 6-3 Kirk Hinrich at Kansas.

In the Big East, you have two good scoring points in 6-2 
Troy Bell (BC) and 6-2 Marcus Hatten (St John's) plus 
little Chris Thomas at Notre Dame.

The Tarheals are reportedly bringing in the top HS 
pointguard in 6-0 Raymond Felton.

Not too exciting. Troy Bell is a winner in my book, but 
his shooting and turnovers and everything else were 
subpar last year.

Its not like we can trade our two picks for an 
established point guard either.

Trading Joe Forte's 1 million contract literally made the 
difference between being over or under the luxury tax 
line next year. But the scariest detail of all is that 
Boston is already at 54 million next summer, with only 
seven players still under contract. 

To say the Baker trade was a salary cap move is a gross 
distortion. It was spectacularly financially reckless.

Unless revenues increase markedly (please come back 
Michael Jordan!), Gaston will be forced to field a 9 man 
roster. In fact, he can't even afford to sign both first 
round draft picks without bringing the payroll over 56 
million. Should he stick to his tax pledge, he'll need to 
find five guys willing to take 350K minimum rookie 
contracts. That's the bind Chris Wallace has put Paul 
Gaston in, which is probably why everything needs to go 
100% perfectly this season or he is fired by next summer. 

Is 50 wins enough? 50 wins plus one playoff round enough? 

Hypothetically, a team could add a full 12-man roster of 
first round picks from next years draft (depending on 
where they were picked) at a combined payroll that would 
equal Baker's salary alone. 

That's possibly why a year ago, Leo and Wallace were 
boasting of how you needed rookies and their longterm, 
cheap contract in order to compete in the league these 
days. Sounded smart then. A year later, Joe Forte had to 
go because he would have counted as 1/52 of next year's 
luxury tax threshold.

Joe H.

Don't worry guys, I actually realize I've been spamming 
the list these past few days with possibly redundant or 
lame posts. At this rate I should apply for a freaking 
job with Hormel, or something. Anyway, I can say this 
IGTC list has more value to me by far than any of the 
local or national papers, Bill Simmons' column etc. 

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