Re: The Boston Celtics Mailing List Digest V10 #100

["Berry, Mark S" <berrym@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with everything you say here. But they won't trade Walker and they
won't fire Obie. They should, but they won't.

Mark

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You wrote:

I would suggest a core of Pierce, Battie, Kedrick, Walter, Bremer, Blount, 
Delk.
T.J. Ford (or some good point) and a (PF/C (Walker replacement - draft
pick). 
We will be stuck with Baker...

Walker is a good/great player but..
IMHO.. He likes to control the ball too much and doesn't pass as well as he 
could.
He plays matador defense and sometimes fails to run the court at all. He 
takes too many threes pulling the team out of the offense. He does rebound 
like a PF because of his penchant for three pointers.

We should:
Trade Walker and EWill and one of our picks to move up the draft and get the

best PF/C available..and use our Philly draft pick to get T.J. Ford (I
rather 
doubt a point will go in the top ten). You might have to use our first pick 
on the point...it all depends on how things shake out.

Both Walker and EWill don't really fit in with the rest of the roster and
are 
just OB favorites. EWill is tough guy and a nice half court scorer but he 
lacks the speed and quickness to play with the rest of the Celts lineup. 
Moreover Walker and EWill are older players. Why move young players with 
talent?

If your going to bring in real point guard you also should get rid of OB and

focus the Celts attack on the more higher percentage 2 point (Pierce,
Battie, 
Kedrick, Walter) with the occasional three from Delk/Bremer (our best three 
point shooters). 

Obviously it would be nice to bring in a rebounder/low post player who can 
also uptempo with the pick. But rebounding/speed should be the primary 
concern. In other words we need a modern PF/C. (Battie is really  a PF)..and

the top point to remake our team.

Of course this whole plan is premised on getting rid of OB...
Even if our team was temporarily worse with this plan...I think we would
play 
better B-Ball and have alot more hope for the future.