RE: OK, now what do we do?

[Kai_Brunnen_G@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Popping your balloon, Papile said Baker will play 80 percent of the time 
at center. And you think O'Boring is going to take his love child Eric Williams
out of the starting lineup. But you're right about Walker being more suited to the 
SF position. And they could have done that, if they had gone after a big man in the
the last two drafts.
Ray

> ** Original Subject: RE: OK, now what do we do?
> ** Original Sender: Bob McChesney <rwmcches@uiuc.edu>
> ** Original Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 07:44:43 -0700 (PDT)

> ** Original Message follows... 

>
> OK, I am going to bury the deal for now. (I still wonder why Wallace didn't 
> get a no. 1 in 2004 tossed in. My God Seattle is so ecstatic to lose Baker 
> he might have gotten two no. 1 picks. But we will never know, since that is 
> the sort of question that would never cross the mind of the razor sharp 
> Boston beat writers.)
> 
> So what do we do?
> 
> I think the thing to do is start Baker at the 4 and slide Antoine to the 3. 
> (I'd have Baker play the 5 some and Walker play the 4 some, but those would 
> not be their main positions.) Give Baker gonzo starter minutes -- 35 mpg -- 
> and make him a big part of the team. The last thing this guy needs is the 
> yo-yo bench treatment that O'Brien served up to Strickland and Kedrick 
> Brown. If Baker does not produce big time, the Celtics season -- next four 
> seasons perhaps -- goes down the tubes.
> 
> I think Antoine's game is better suited for the 3, certainly on offense. On 
> D he will have to struggle at times, but that is the trade-off. With 
> Antoine at the 4 we suffered in defensive match-ups at times also. He is a 
> tweener. If Antoine gets the word this summer he can work on his quickness.
> 
> And truth be told, Antoine will never join the first tier of 4s in the 
> league: Duncan, Webber, Garnett, Nowitzki, etc. He isn't in their class. 
> But he can be in the first tier of 3s. That is where he can emerge as a 
> all-pro caliber player. Especially if he gets his assists in the 6 apg 
> range. Then this team has a chance to do some serious damage.
> 
> So, for our rotation:
> 
> 5: Battie
> 4: Baker
> 3: Walker
> 2: Pierce
> 1: Williams
> 
> Rotation players: Sundov, Williams, Brown, Delk
> 
> I wouldn't mind seeing us re-sign Blount for insurance if Sundov lays an 
> egg. I somehow suspect the "Shaq of the Summer League" is going to command 
> a low salary.
> 
> Me, I'd like to see Brown get a serious commitment of minutes backing up 
> the 3 and maybe the 2. I think Eric Williams should assume towel-waving 
> mode for the last two years on his contract, except for emergencies. But I 
> somehow doubt that O'Brien will do that.
> 
> Robert W. McChesney
> Your Man in Urbana
> Institute of Communications Research
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> www.robertmcchesney.com

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