Re: Lee Benson

[Ellie Cutler <ellie@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I haven't seen Benson show up in any of the mock drafts so he may well be 
available as a FA to sign for the summer league.

Wallace's quotes in the Globe this AM sounded like he didn't give two hoots 
about the #50 pick. And that they would NOT draft a PG because they are 
planning to stash the pick overseas for a few years and it's harder to do 
that with PGs (?) plus they were going to continue the Joe Forte at the 
point experiment next year plus they had Omar Cook.

I do agree that getting Cook is the same as having a low 1st rounder in 
this year's draft, so I'm content with that.

And money seems to be the ruling factor for Pond & co.  So we need to get 
lucky somewhere.  I was going to say that any big man still on the block at 
#50 must be a pretty bad player, so they should obviously go for the BPA, 
but then there was MacCulloch (?) and Jarron Collins, so who knows?  I'd be 
thrilled to see Lonny Baxter there. And Murray & Lorinza Harrington were 
top div II guards with good across the board stats (asst., steals, RB, and 
scoring) - even though Wallace said they wouldn't take a PG (which 
harrington is). We shall see...

It's a bit unrealistic to expect Kedrick to break out this year - most of 
the kids drafted take at least two years before blossoming. I'll be 
interested to see if Forte gets any time - will look forward to seeing him 
in the summer league.


At 01:58 PM 6/24/2002 , pete hunter wrote:

> Why not take Lee Benson?  We are always bemoaning the
> Celtics' youth.  That would be one way to get older.
> Also, we could use a 6'11" guy who is filled out and
> can shoot.  Some basketball coaches insist the best
> shooters they have ever seen have been inmates or
> ex-inmates.