Fwd: Re: [Celtics' Stuff Fwd: Delk & Rogers

[JB <jbmetzea@yahoo.com>]

--- lancejacob@aol.com wrote:
> To: Celticsstuffgroup@yahoogroups.com
> From: lancejacob@aol.com
> Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 22:24:26 EST
> Subject: Re: [Celtics' Stuff Fwd: Delk & Rogers
> Reply-to: Celticsstuffgroup@yahoogroups.com
> ***************
> > > ThanksDad, can you pull your face away from your
> > > PeeWee Herman video 
> > > collection long enough to do the right thing?
> > > 
> > > Bob McChesney
> > 
> > ******************
> > 
> 
> Dear Professor:  You must be a student of history,
> because you're reciting 
> the events that have transpired and establishing the
> cause thereof.
> 
> I am angry at not having next year's pick.  I'm
> angry that JJ didn't fit the 
> system, and got worse with time.  I'm angry that we
> brought in two backups 
> who had contracts that were far from ideal for the
> Celtic plans--one too 
> long, one too short.
> 
> I'm just not going to blame Wallace for this.  Have
> Rogers and Delk struggled 
> like this in any previous trade?  Were their 2001
> stats in some way 
> deceiving?  Are these guys lazy or dumb?  
> 
> I say NO to all of the above.  It's absolutely coach
> NotRick's garbage 
> offensive system, coupled with clueless
> substitutions and matchups.  There 
> never was any team chemistry, only two captains, a
> worn-out, fan-unfriendly 
> point guard and a bunch of "happy to make millions"
> role players who found 
> the coach wouldn't yell at them in public, and let
> them play their game.  
> Anybody see an actual play called after a time out? 
> Notice that the only 
> clipboard is carried by the trainer?  We took a
> bright talent in JJ and 
> dimmed it.  Kedrick and Forte?  What evidence have
> they shown that they've 
> LEARNED A DAMNED THING here?  Now you take two guys,
> who's reps were solid, 
> if not exciting, and watch them struggle to find the
> ball on the wrong side 
> in a cut, get swamped in the middle, and receive no
> help or bailout in any 
> moves to the hoop?  Mr. O'Brien is a Talent Syphon,
> just draining it away, 
> all in guise of designing a game plan that creates
> pressured jump shots.
> 
> I don't agree, Dr. Bob, that Wallace is the culprit,
> although I was adamant 
> that the trade was a bad deal.  It has become a
> killer deal if the Celts are 
> giving up the 11th pick this summer.  It may also
> prove to be horrendous if 
> Rogers signs elsewhere for short money because he
> looks lousy here and 
> there's no team upside.  I won't accept that these
> guys are worse than their 
> Phoenix stats.  The coach is just making them that
> way.  Besides, I see Obie 
> as higher in the pecking order than the GM/scout. 
> He knew Delk; swore he was 
> a tremendous player and starting material.  
> 
> You can write a thesis on Wallace's failure, but I
> see it as much as a result 
> of Obie's trepidation at the rest of the season, as
> we've rarely had a 
> blowout and now the teams we squeaked by are healthy
> and serious.  I WILL 
> agree that the financial limits SUPPOSEDLY set by
> Gaston can impede some 
> deals, but I don't buy the fact that Gaston wouldn't
> want a pick at #20 or so 
> because it is a guaranteed three-year deal.  At the
> money that the rookie 
> would get, three years would be a bargain.  The
> problem is that he, like PP 
> (who was recovering from stab wounds last year and
> didn't play to his talent) 
> and JF and KB and JJ. . . . are just not going to
> get any better under this 
> regime.  What could be worse than a team that's no
> better than the sum of its 
> parts, and parts that don't improve with time and
> experience?
> 


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