Re: Team is balanced now.

[JB <jimmetz@xxxxxxx>]

>> It seems to me, that for this team to be balanced,
>> there has to be a trade for another point guard. I'm convinced that
>> Ainge acquired Jones to trade either Brown or Williams, or maybe both,
>> just as he acquired James, in order to trade Bremer.
	JB
> ******************
> Why? Can't Delk be a third string point guard?  It's not like he will 
> ever
> see time there. We have three guys at every position. I think the 
> roster is good
> to go as is. We had one extra little guy and we traded him for the more
> versatile Jumaine Jones.
>> GuyClinch
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	1st, I think Delk will be the back up point guard and James the third 
stringer, but that's not the point.
	My position and longstanding kvetch with this team is that unless we 
have 48 minutes of "pure" point guard play, Antoine Walker will take 
over as the distributor  and in the present scenario will have about 
half the game to undo, with "O'Bie ball," what Ainge hath wrought.
	I'm just catching up on a weeks, past, posts and noticed some reaction 
to my quote of Ainge in this regard. To preface it; I sidled up to 
Ainge as he was finishing some autographs and just stuck my hand in his 
direction, to shake, which he took and told him that I was a fan from 
the fifties, who learned the game from watching Cousy and wanted to 
thank him for trying to bring that style back. He said, almost jokingly 
and without hesitation; hence my defense of him as being too 
spontaneous to be a "mendacious SOB," as someone else was charging, 
that he still had to convince Antoine and O'Bie.
	I think Danny has tried very hard to get O'Brien on his page, 
offensively and has had long talks with him about it. I also think he 
has listened to O'Bie's concerns about having veterans at every 
position and not losing the defensive intensity O'Bie took so long to 
install.
	It should be interesting, no doubt. I'm not convinced it won't work, 
especially with Walker having to be a bit humble, for once, needing to 
perform well to get his next contract, near the level of his present 
one, especially if he wants to stay in Boston, as previously stated.
	It's  also telling that Paul was in town, watching Banks with rapt 
attention and being enthusiastic over "a few easy baskets per game," 
but without another point guard, I see real trouble. They have to 
either run a point guard directed offense or forget it and neither Delk 
or James is capable.
	I still think we are going to see the move to bring in another point. 
Ainge told me that day, he was and I don't think, he thinks, that James 
is the answer either. Only if he brings in his style of player, can he 
lobby O'Brien to play them.
		
		JB

Unchain My Heart!
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On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 09:53  PM, GuyClinch@xxxxxxx wrote:

>> It seems to me, that for this team to be balanced,
>> there has to be a trade for another point guard. I'm convinced that
>> Ainge acquired Jones to trade either Brown or Williams, or maybe both,
>> just as he acquired James, in order to trade Bremer.
>>
>
> Why? Can't Delk be a third string point guard?  It's not like he will 
> ever
> see time there. We have three guys at every position. I think the 
> roster is good
> to go as is. We had one extra little guy and we traded him for the more
> versatile Jumaine Jones.
>
> Back then everyone said we had too many short guys..now we have too 
> many
> SF's?
> Now you think we should add another little guy? Huh?
>
> You have to have too many of one kinda of player...the SF is the most
> versatile postion.
>
> McCarty, Jones and Kedrick could play a few minutes at PF so those 
> guys can
> handle three postions.. That gives us more versatility then another 
> small guy.
>
> Pete