credit for Wallace

["Thomas Murphy" <tfmiii@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>Also Wallace struck gold with J.R. Bremer... so he does deserve a few
points
for that.<<

Sure let's give Wallace a few points for Bremer...

...but let's also remember how it came to be that a third-stringer,
undrafted out of college, who has never played point guard full time became
the "savior" of the Celtics backcourt.

It could happen because the two fellows ahead of Bremer on the depth chart -
on a team crafted by Wallace - were so obviously and manifestly unsuited for
the position that three months into the season Bremer's modest skills could
seem like a godsend.

What a great plan!

Hey, look Wallace has done it again too - at the center position!

After four months of Baker, Sundov and Wolkowski...

...Blount is a veritable second-coming of Russell!

The point being - if we are going to give credit to Wallace for Bremer or
any of the other "around the edges" kind of pickups he has made (no offense
to Bremer but he really shouldn't be starting - although he should
definitely be getting time over the likes of Shammond and Delk) we should
also remember why it is that the team is in such desperate straights at the
given position to start with.

If Wallace hadn't bungled the team roster so badly to start with there
wouldn't be such a collective euphoria when someone like Bremer shows us
that he can actually play a little B-ball.

(Sure O'B has some culpability here as well - a whole other rant - but
Wallace is the one being paid good money to sit in the GM seat.)

So give Wallace a few brownie points for Bremer...

...but don't neglect to subtract a whole lot more points for the
"Delk/Shammond as PG experiment" he (with some help from O'B) foisted upon
the team to begin with.

cheers - TomM