Other side of the Wallace argument

["Enrile, Roy" <renrile@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Eggcentric wrote:

Can you think of any creditable moves Wallace has made aside from 
signing Strickland and trading JJ and a #1 for Rogers/Delk?  I cannot.  
And somehow he even managed to turn these  " best and brightest "
moves into bungled messes. 
  
Wallace is a coward and a fraud
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I disagree.  You could argue that every player from last years wildly
successful team (except Antoine) was aquired by Chris Wallace and that
he's not a coward/fraud of a GM.  Now that the team is on a losing
streak, he's getting insults that I definitely didn't hear last May.

My point is, He probably wants the Celts to succeed desperately, just
like us.

But he's fought through financial constraints, a coach/playingstyle that
wants specialist role players rather than some of the all around players
Wallace picked up at first.  His attempts at Pippin(in the beginning),
Jermaine Oneal, Nowitzki, Brown/Mashburn, Mercer, Rodgers,
Crawford/Robinson, were good ideas from a talent upgrade point of view.

If you're going to list all the bad moves (which I mostly agree with),
then also point out that our rotation of 7 defensive stoppers from last
year, and our decent defensive starters from this year were Wallace
guys.
Also, Bowen, Blount, Griffin and a bunch of successful players from his
Miami days, were other examples of good finds.