Re: It could be worse

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This team is not far from being a very good team. Remember guys named
Anderson and Rogers, Pots??

DanF

----- Original Message -----
From: <Celtic4Hire@AOL.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>; <Celticsstuffgroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 10:38 AM
Subject: It could be worse


> If we trade Walker, we better be sure that we solve our problems we what
we
> get back. As miserable as this team is right now, it sure could get a lot
> worse...
>
> DJessen33
>
> <Mutombo recalled how management "panicked" when he and his strikingly
slow
> and old teammates were run out of the 1999 playoffs by the New York
Knicks.
> After a purge of seasoned players, only Mutombo remained. Then came the
> Hawks' ongoing slide to oblivion, and Wilkens was ousted. Then Mutombo was
> traded to the Philadelphia 76ers in February of 2001.
>
> What should Hawks management have done?
>
> Learn the lessons of history," said Mutombo, ever the philosopher. "They
(the
> Hawks) made the same mistake as Chicago did. One day, the Bulls had
Michael
> Jordan, and the next, [Bulls general manager] Jerry Krause woke up and
said
> he wanted to start over. If you have talented, veteran players, and you
want
> to change, you need to add only a couple of young guys along the way to
make
> the transition.
>
> "The Bulls didn't do it, and the Hawks didn't do it, and they both ended
with
> a big vacuum." >