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Re: see you in the fall
I think Kestas had his tongue in his cheek on that one.
Cecil
----- Original Message -----
From: Josh Ozersky <JOzersky@GEN.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 2:51 PM
Subject: re: see you in the fall
> Kestas, where did you hear that? Do you know why Pierce nixed it? IIT
> (interesting if true).
>
> Re Steve's point: I don't think you can go by whether other GMs would
covet
> our players.
> Who coveted Ben Wallace two years ago? Who coveted Antoine, for that
> matter? It doesn't
> even need to be that dramatic -- we're talking about marginal players,
other
> than Baker. Who
> wanted, or even knew about, Bruce Bowen or Adrian Griffin? It seems to me
> that the one area
> where the Wallace administration has proved itself is its ability to find
> low-level NBA guys who
> have flourished with greater roles. Everything will come down to Baker,
of
> course. He's the
> guy that has to produce. But even if he produces only as well as he did
for
> Seattle last year,
> that's still a huge upgrade over Rogers. And if, like me, you saw Kenny
as
> a liability overall,
> that means this team should be a lot better than last year's.
>
> Josh