RE: Chris Worthless And The Foreign Market: A Recipe For Celtics Disaster

[David A Wickerham <aw623@xxxxxxx>]

I believe the pick was sent in 1997, and Miami used it to take Mark
Sanford (Who??), a 6'9" Forward from Washington.

Other players taken after him included Alvin Williams, Mark Blount, and
Marc Jackson.  Although each had a modicom of success, none are with the
teams that originally drafted them.

Second round picks are overrated.



On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, jlyell wrote:

> Some hard facts to argue with.
> 
> Has the Wolkowyski signing been confirmed?  We have heard a few other names
> tossed around.
> 
> Don't forget we gave up a high second round pick for Wallace. It would be
> interesting to see who was available with that pick.
> 
> John
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-celtics@igtc.com [mailto:owner-celtics@igtc.com]On Behalf Of
> Way Of The Ray
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> Subject: Chris Worthless And The Foreign Market: A Recipe For Celtics
> Disaster
> 
> 
> When it comes to International Players, Chris Wallace has been
> Chris Worthless.....
> 
> Where did it all go wrong?
> 
> At one time, the Celtics had one of the better
> foreign players in the form of Dino Radja.
> 
> And then the Pitino/Wallace putsch descended upon Celtic Nation like
> a black plague of death and destruction,
> and Dino Radja was soon gone, tossed out in the trash heap of an
> organizational
> cleaning, that also saw Rick Fox, David Wesley, and a slew of  usable
> players jettisoned without much in return.
> 
> And it was all downhill from there.
> 
> Especially in the International Market, where a phalanx of other NBA
> teams have
> been able to add quality or even All-Star type players, but not the
> Celtics.
> 
> This debacle rests heavily on the shoulders of one man, and that is
> Head of Basketball Operations/GM Chris
> Wallace, who is the major constant, in terms of  talent acquisition and
> evaluation,
> in both the Pitino and post-Pitino eras.
> 
> Come, let us look at the error of Little Chrissy's foreign ways:
> 
> - Dallas out-maneuvers the Celtics by trading up to get Nowitzki, whom
> both
> Wallace and Pitino thought they had secretly locked up.
> 
> - C's trade an unprotected draft choice (which becomes the eighth pick
> and the selection of All Star PG Andre Miller) for Vitaly Potapenko.
> 
> C's Draft Australian Big Man Ben Pepper, who was last seen riding on a
> surfboard
> to New Guinea.
> 
> - C's select the immortal Kris Cluck, errr Chris Craft, or whatever
> his rapidly anonymous name is, two spots ahead of  Emmanuel
> Ginobilli in the 1999 draft.
> 
> - C's trade two second round picks for Josip Sesar, whom everyone and
> even
> Josip Sesar's mother knew, couldn't play NBA defense, and has yet to
> even
> be invited to a Celtics training camp.
> 
> - The Celtics draft Frenchman Jerome Moiso. That's all that needs to be
> said
> as we all pray for collective amnesia.
> 
> - In the disaster of a disastrous Space Odyssey 2001 NBA Draft,
> the Celtics are hot for Pau Gasol. So hot, they're practicaly drooling,
> and they are discussing trade scenarios with other clubs that involves
> them packaging picks 10 and 11 to move up in the draft to take
> Gasol. Then, they get a brain fart. They fall in love with a Juco player
> 
> by the name of  Kedrick Brown, and cut a deal with his agent to reserve
> the 11th pick for him, thus preventing the team from dealing up for
> Gasol.
> What's worse is that they should have drafted Richard Jefferson with the
> 
> 11th choice.
> 
> - In the same disaster of a disastrous 2001 draft, the Celtics have the
> 21st pick, and are in desperate need of a PG with Kenny Anderson,
> in the tank at the time. Tony Parker is available. Wallace and his
> assistant
> in decrepitude: Head Scout Leo Papile totaly mis-evaluate Parker,
> writing
> him off as not that good/second round material, and instead, take their
> third
> shooting guard in the draft in Joseph Forte, who basically sits for the
> entire
> 2001-2002 season, eating popcorn, wearing Lakers jerseys, pissing off
> the
> coaching staff, and then is soon traded during the off-season,
> after lighting up the Shaw's Summer League.
> 
> - In the past draft, the Celtics with the 50th or so pick, select
> Darius Songaila, who quickly is told by Boston management to
> head overseas, because you're not making the club, and will be cut.
> Meanwhile, selected after Songaila are two better foreign players:
> high-flying
> Argentian combo forward Frederico Kammerichs, and the sweet shooting
> Mladen Secularic, who Dallas steals away.
> 
> - In the past off-season, both the Celtics and Memphis Grizzlies are
> looking for foreign centers. The C's sign 7-3 Bruno Sundov, whom despite
> 
> being in the NBA for four years, has played a paltry number of games, is
> 
> ascribed to being defensively poor, and likes to play outside on the
> perimeter.
> Meanwhile, the great Jerry West, concocts another rabbit out of his hat
> for
> the Grizzlies by signing a sleeper Polish center Cezary Trybanski, who
> is
> defensively strong, plays on the inside, and can block shots.  Hmmm,
> which
> center do you think will be better, the guy signed by Wallace or West?
> 
> - This past offseason, the C's are looking for a foreign player to fill
> the twelfth and
> final spot on the roster. Yugo star and hero of the World Championships:
> Milan
> Gurovic announces that he would "love to play for the Celtics", instead
> the Celtics
> sign Argentinian third string backup center and the sixth best player on
> that team:
> Reuben Wolkowyski.
> 
> 
> And so the disaster goes on and on. Where it stops, only a new Celtics
> ownership knows....
> Ray
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