With Clanks and Perktross, Red Flags and Ainge Roast

[Way Of The Ray <wayray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A week has passed and still the Celtics draft bewilders.

But let's look towards the future.

The 2004 playoffs to be exact. It's the Nets against the Celtics once
anew and
it's a re-signed Jason Kidd versus the Celtics very own Marcus Clanks.

Due to the Nets continued rebounding and defensive advantage,
the Celtics have been onced again forced into a half-court game,
with Pierce doubled, Walker singled, and the ball kicked out
on the perimeter to Banks, who can't penetrate as Kidd is playing off
him and the Nets have the paint clogged.

BANKS MUST SHOOT!

CLANK!

BANKS MUST SHOOT!

CLANK!

BANKS MUST SHOOT!

CLANK!

Meanwhile back in the present, Dick Vitale who never badmouths college
hoopsters
(foreign players aren't so lucky) and would say nice things about Jack
the Ripper
if he played for Tark the Shark at Fresno Reformatory State has blasted
Marcus Banks with words to the effect that he has no perimeter game!

RED FLAG ALERT!


And then there's Kendrick Perkins, who Leo Papile has gleefully told us
would
be the second pick in the upcoming draft or is it the third?  Whatever
the case,
anytime Leo makes such a pronouncement:

RED FLAG ALERT!

It's not that Perkins will be a bad player, it's just, that he's likely
to be an average player,
as he's undersized for center and lacks the nimbleness of the Shaq's and
Curry's
and the quickness of the hybrid C/PFs like Duncan and Milicic.  And
while it's nice that he
has long arms, unfortunately, so do most of the other NBA Big Men and
they're all
taller than he is.  His biggest saving grace is that he has excellent
low post moves
and perhaps can be a low post option on offense. And perhaps he might
grow.

But this past draft seems similar to the O'Brien extension.  In two
years time,
Ainge will dump O'Brien and may do the same with these draft choices.
Ray