Re: Some Depressing News From Peter May

[Way Of The Ray <wayray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Re: Brown vs Gaston:

John Y Brown was a short term phenomenon. Gaston has had a much longer
affect, disrupting the franchise for over a decade. Brown made the
Celtics
awful, from which they were able to acquire the impact players they
needed,
rebuild, and win championships.

Gaston's policies have ensured a decade of prolonged mediocrity, which
they
still haven't recovered from, and have robbed them from being a
contending
team.

Why Brown almost ran off Red, Gaston has run off Bird, and plagued
the franchise with ML Carr and Rick Pitino, a far worse crime and
setback, with far longer negative effects.

Don't be fooled by this past season.


Re: Olowokandi: Better chance of swapping Walker for him.
Ray



JB wrote:

> On Sunday, June 16, 2002, at 12:01 PM, Way Of The Ray wrote:
>
>      Eeny meeny Nene Hillario has measured out at 6-11 and can play center.
>      Add that to his 7-4 wingspan, his 265 pounds, and the fact
>      that May indicates that he may be the best athlete in the draft, and
>      one has to question why Wallace lacked the patience to wait
>      on the Denver pick?
>
>      A pick that would have put the Celtics in
>      position to get a Nene or a Wilcox, or a dropping Caron Butler,
>      or perhaps a trade up for a franchise PG like Williams. Either way,
>      the choice would have brought the Celtics a better prospect than
>      Kedrick Brown.
>      Ray
>      ************************
>
> Absolutely, a good point.
> While, the theory was sound, until McDyess went down, that the Nuggets would not be a lottery team, what in the world did we think we would do with three rookies? Don't even mention the fact that none of them were point guards or centers. I'll never get over that. On the other hand, we didn't even want our own pick this year, although it was 10 places up from the Denver pick we could have had.
> Ray, in another post, you mentioned that Gaston is the worst C's owner, ever. I don't know if Gov. Brown and wife Phyllis George, were not worse, trading three first round picks for MacAdoo, because wifey thought he was cute, but I do have fear that we won't be able to build on the only benefit of gambling away the future, for the taste of winning, that the playoff run gave us, because Gaston won't spend, even the extra cash he took in from the playoff games, not to mention the million here and the three million there, he got from some of Pitino's last few trades.
> I look at this team and love the effort they put out, becoming one of the better defensive teams, but know it's time to focus on rebounding and passing. If we lose Walter, Strickland and/or Rogers; I wouldn't mind, if we filled the holes at point and center.
> If I were GM, I'd make a list of all of the centers and point guards that are available and better than what we have and I'd do whatever I could to try and get one or both. Maybe it's not possible, but at least I'd be trying. I don't like the drift I'm hearing, about keeping the core we have and not spending even more than a million for Rogers. Hopefully, that's negotiation talk, but as I said, I'd not sign Rogers, if I could get help at those other positions.
> Back to your point; my opinion is that most (like 8 out 0f 10) draft picks are never worth more than on draft night. Since you are the ultimate authority (TIC) on trade worthiness, what would you think, hypothetically, of course, about; Anderson, Vitaly and the Denver pick; for Olowakandi and McGinnis?
>
> JB
>
> Unchain My Heart!