Re: The Boston Celtics Mailing List Digest V10 #145

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Welcome, sounds like a voice of wisdom and reason to me. What a waste it
would be if Pierce and or Twan don't get a chance in the near future to see
how far this team could go. We're 2-3 players short of that goal now. It
doesn't seem insurmountable. Will Boston clean house? I doubt it. Raising
ticket prices next season was their first official order. They've seen the
last of me out there till things change.

DanF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ADavis1031@AOL.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: The Boston Celtics Mailing List Digest V10 #145


> Newbie here. Long time lurker. 45 year Celts fan. Like many of you, I'm
happy
> to see our boys prevail in the last round and play their best bb of the
> season. However, also like many of you, it's not hard to see that this
team
> has limited upside. Clearly, the best this group can hope for is a bad
> whipping in the finals if we could ever made that far -- which I doubt.
> That's not enough. I don't want to be teased with hopeful but really
hopeless
> playoff appearances for the next n years. However, what to do with the Vin
> situation, luxury tax considerations, etc. to find away around this
> situation, IMHO, will take some bold and aggressive action.  Here's my
> antidote for hope.
>
> 1. Obviously, Wallace must go. If you have 3 draft choices in a critical
> draft year and arguably don't get 1 right with plenty of good choices
> available and then compound the situation with the worst trade in Boston
> sports history (except the Babe), you can't stay around no matter what
your
> other small finds, i.e., Bremer. We need someone to tackle this whole
> situation with a fresh eye and fresh approach, and has clout with the
owner.
> In short, we need someone like Larry Bird to take over the basketball
> operation. If he wants Obie, that's fine with me. If he doesn't so be it.
But
> what we don't need is keep Wallace and extend Obie's contract, or fire
> Wallace and not let the new guy, whoever he is, not hire his own coach.
> Either is a recipe for disaster.
>
> 2. This team needs either a superstar big or a dynamic distributing point
> guard to get to the next level. Realistically, we have no chance of
getting
> both. In my view the only chance of making this happen is thru the draft.
The
> chances of this happening with a 16th or 20th draft choice is small. I
think
> Kedrick could be a good, maybe even a fine player someday, but he plays
the
> wrong position, And if we keep Walter and continue to give Eric Williams
> minutes, he has no more chance of developing next year than this year, no
> matter his potential. Therefore, let's package Kedrick, 16 and 20 and see
> what we can get. I'm hoping its around 8-10 where there's some hope of
> getting a real player in a position of need.
>
> 3. The major fallout from the Vin Baker fiasco is that filling the
mid-level
> exception now has bitter luxury tax implications. However, Wyc et al need
to
> understand that the Celts are going nowhere unless we can fill the
mid-level
> exception next year. If he's willing to do that, he can bring all the
> relatives he wants into the locker room.