Fwd: [Celtics' Stuff Clippers want to bring Baron back home

[JB <jimmetz@xxxxxxx>]

We're constantly bringing in the Most Athletic guys, but we don't run
and these guys can't make it as shooters.  Silly.  EWill, gutsy as he
is, is not a reliable offensive contributer.  Great to have him to
"reestablish" a rhythm, but he's no longer a starter for a playoff
team.  This should be the year to move him out and Kedrick in.  But
where's the reliable shooter coming from?  Our Allen Houston/Ray Allen
type?  Without an inside threat, the Greg Minor of 2003 is an absolute
necessity.
 
Yet we've recycled so many picks just to find a capable shooter.  What's
with Forte?  Should the Celts just let him walk, or can he bulk up and
fake it at the 2-spot?  After all, Strick and Delk survive at that
height playing backup minutes at the SG.  Let's get this roster focused
on true "role players" that have a role to play.
 
It really bugs me that we'll be over the cap, and we only have three
guys that are solid NBA-level players--the captains and Kenny.  With the
ball going to the captains so much, why not just dump everybody else,
use Kenny's money on a big guy and take on 11 min salary players?  I'm
nearly serious here.  There's not a game in my recent memory where we
counted on anybody but our three scorers to get ANY points. 
Battie/EWill/Vitaly/Strick/Delk/Walter. . .who really cares WHAT happens
to them?
 Lance
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> Hmm. Interesting. It seems almost as when we have versatility, we feel
> we need specialists, and when we have specialists, we long for
> versatility. In my humble opinion all we need is, as Euro Coach (Hall
> of  Famer) Aza Nikolic used to say, someone who "puts the ball into the
> basket". Versatile? Role player? Specialist? Who cares as long as he
> gives us our third scorer and relieves some pressure from our two
> stars? When I used to play ball it was easier with good shooters on my
> side. The gave me more room to play one on one in the low post.....
>  Fabio 
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>> I  just want some big ass kicker under the boards who can rebound , 
>> if he can score that would a bonus. I want a guy who will knock the
>> teeth out of oppents mouths if they are crazy enough to drive the
>> lane .  Of course we still do need a third option  but I want my bully
>> first and then you guys can get your finesse player next . Call me old
>> fashioned but when I was a little kid playing b-ball my coach used to
>> tell me John you get 5 fouls , use 4 of them. A guy like cornbread
>> would be cool or say a younger Oakley or a Rick Mahorn type . I also
>> think we missed V against Jersey more than anybody cares to admit ,
>> I'll even go as far as to say if we had Vitaly we might have won the
>> series.
>>
> 	JSJS33
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> 	I think we found our third scorer in Rogers. In fact, that's why
> the "trade" was made. We thought we were getting two of them.
> Unfortunately, Delk never lived up to his resume.
> 	Regarding JS' lament over the absence of interior defense, it was
> odd, but in order to find playing time for Rogers, Battie had to sit.
> Why would it have been any different if we had Vitaly? I thought Tony
> more than held his own, after the first game adjustments. Would Vitaly
> have been down the floor fast enough, or in the air high enough, to
> stop the layup drill when Jason Kidd had them running?
> 	We've wondered for a long time why Walker can't/won't play the
> three, even for spot minutes, even when we had exactly the consummate,
> "ass-kicking," power forward, in Fortson.
> 	 I've sorted out the feelings, of his possible comprehension, that
> he can't make the all-star team at that spot. I've looked at his body
> shape, I've screamed at the TV. Whatever the reason, it seems as if we
> are going to improve in rebounding or shot blocking, it has to come
> from the center position and if we are going to have a reliable third
> scorer, he can't play the four.
> 	As for our role players being versatile, as opposed to being
> specialists, I agree with Fabio, "much ado about nothing." I think we
> did just fine off the bench, against Philadelphia and Detroit.
> 	Against New Jersey, which was the only team who could get easy
> baskets off us and constantly put us in a hole, our entire offense was
> exposed as plodding and reliant on the long ball.
> 	Kenny Anderson, who had hit big shots in the prior two series, was
> way over matched against Kidd and the rest of them, except Strickland,
> became tentative, in the face of Walker and Pierce, fading, as the
> series wore on. We made some runs, but we had to work a lot harder than
> N.J. for our points and it caught up with us.
> 	I think, we need help underneath and at the point, in that order,
> but we need to learn how to run, now that we've learned how to walk. We
> already have the players to do it, if they will.
> 	Remember, there were two things Pitino wanted the team to do.  One
> was the trapping, stifling defense, the other was the fast break.
> O'Brien has got them to buy into a very intense defensive mind set, can
> he get them to run the floor at the other end?
> 	All we know about O'Bie's offensive adjustments, is that he
> brought in some unknown coach, from some unknown place, that allegedly
> teaches post play. There is more than one way to get easy baskets, post
> play is one of them, although I'm hesitant to say that we have the
> personnel for that. This Gallagher better be the real deal, not another
> Newton, with an apple on his head!
>
> 		JB
>
>
> 			Unchain My Heart!