Re: Drafting

[ryan nelson <ryanmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have to disagree with statement that wallace has done an alright job of picking players and signing free agents.  I give him credit for bremer and strickland but he passed up quite a few decent players in taking jj and kedrick (i won't even go into forte, but wallace is the one making decisions, not red).  

First of all, kedrick can not play.  Walker was talking up vinny baker all year just as he was kedrick.  that scares me.  seems like kedrick has no confidence and no killer instinct.  Reminds me of a guy we had in training camp in about 1989 named eric macarthur.  Tons of athleticism but just can't play the game.  I won't fault wallace for joe johnson as it seemed like a good pick at the time.  What i do fault him for is exercising the right to use denver's pick to take kedrick instead of holding off until the next year when the pick was #4 I think.  That was just plain stupid.  Everybody said it at the time too.  Now that jerry krause is gone, wallace is officially the worst gm in basketball.  Other than signing bremer (after giving omar cook a guaranteed contract, nice job chris) he has made zero positive moves and if you take into account the baker idiocy, he has killed this franchise's chance of a world championshiip during the pierce-walker years (unless vin retires, gives us cap room, and wallace is fired).  Does anybody think the celtics can ever win it with wallace making deals? 


-------Original Message-------
From: GuyClinch@AOL.com
Sent: 04/30/03 10:56 PM
To: Celtics@igtc.com
Subject: Drafting

> 
> > Sure, the players would have a better idea what the potential draft picks 

> can do than Wallace, can't hurt to consult them. It also wouldn't hurt
to 
> compile a psychological profile on potential draftees so that we don't
pick 
> 
> someone as timid as Kedrick and JJ, or a pain in the ass troublemaker
like 
> Forte. At least talk to them at length, get to know them beyond their 
> vertical and wingspan numbers.
> 




Gee..you believe everything you read..dont ya.
Neither Kedrick or JJ are "timid", IMHO. You should try watching some Suns 

games.
J.J. is a perfectly normal player. He is perfectly willing to hoist up
shots. 
This 'timid" stuff is a bit of poetic license on the part of the local
media. 


Also who is to say that Wallace didn't get the coaches or players input 
before these choices? I wouldn't be surprised if they looked at his ACT 
scores or talked with his teachers or something like that as far as 
understanding his "psyche" too. 

That being said since the GM has endless time to seek out talent he is
going 
to do a better job then players and coaches who are involved with winning 
games. Thats why they don't often have coach/GM in basketball. It's too
much 
work to find talents and coach your team. 

Besides since both Walker and Pierce have publically plugged to for
Kedrick 
to get more time. So it seems that he does okay with them..<g> It's OB who 

doesn't want to play the guy...

Wallace has proven to be a horrible GM because of his Baker trade...but as 

far as picking players and signing free agents he has done alright. Strick 

can play..and he signed him last year. J.R. Bremer is pretty damn good for 
an 
undrafted guy. And Brown and JJ will be ten year NBA players if not for
the 
Celtics.

I wouldn't be the least bit surpised if Wallace got work with another team 

after the Celtics. Like I said before drafting is a gamble..sure Jerry
West 
picked Kobe Bryant but he has screwed up alot as well. Red picked Forte.
Its 
not senility...it was just a bad bet.

If your not drafting in the top three you might get someone good like
Pierce 
or Walker..but more often then not you will just get a serviceable NBA 
player. If you really screw up you might get a true bust like the
O'Bannons.


Pete