Re: looking for a pick-me-up?

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmmmm, nice post. To the point. Been lookin over the Celt's schedule and
picking games for tickets. May just ad a few more on. I think we're going to
do ok. Starting to get the fever again.

DanF


----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Ozersky" <JOzersky@GEN.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 3:45 PM
Subject: looking for a pick-me-up?


> Read Vin Baker's transcript at the Celtics site.  A long and encouraging
> chat.  You know, with all due respect to Mark Berry and others, I think
> a lot of people on this list have bugged out.  With the possible exception
> of the year we brought Pierce onboard, this is the best offseason of the
> past
> ten years.  What the hell did we really lose with Kenny and Rodney Rogers,
> anyway?  Both those guys are role players, and Kenny's not even a good
> role player.
>
> Shammond Williams is a mystery to me, and to the rest of us as well.  I'm
> sure he can run a pick and roll as well as any other professional,
however.
> But the main thing is Baker.  Unless he is a complete bust, we just added
a
> talented big man who can basically get us 18 and 9 in his sleep.  This is
> what
> a third scorer is, not some guy that makes 23 foot set shots!  Baker is a
> third
> guy who can create his own shot down low, as well as rebound and play some
> defense.  You would think, to read the way people are going on about the
end
> of
> the bench, that we had added another Mark Blount to the team.  I don't
give
> a
> shit about what went wrong in Seattle; this guy is a legitimate player.
> Even when
> underperforming, he is an immense upgrade over Vitaly Potapenko and Tony
> Battie.
>
> I will feel blue every time I think about Joe Johnson and Joe Forte, and
how
> Wallace
> screwed up the draft be giving those picks away.  And I don't believe that
> Kedrick
> Brown will be anything more than a live body on defense and a garbage man
on
>
> offense, at least this year.  And as I said before, I don't know thing one

> about Shammond
> Williams except that he will hit more open jumpers than Kenny did.
>
> But we added a third star in Baker, and from the sound of what he's saying
> in his chat,
> I think he's bound to put us over the top.  If Rodney Rogers was enough to
> push us to the
> conference finals, we have to be going farther with this guy.  I'm glad he
> was a disaster
> in Seattle.  Otherwise we would never have been able to acquire him in
> exchange for two
> players who, when all is said and done, added almost nothing to us on
> offense and little
> enough on defense.
>
> Josh