Re: Tidbits from Sean Deveney

[Kestas <kkv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:25 PM 5/21/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> I think it was Kestas who wrote that he was afraid
> all the other gm's in the league might now what we all know about Antoine.
> Kestas...again, my pet, let's be reasonable. If it's obvious to you...and
> Mark....and Way...and so many others on this list, then, my little fountain
> of joy....the gm's know it too.
Here comes another believer in the infinite wisdom of the NBA GMs. Puppy, 
haven't you learned anything from observing Chris Wallace? Here's a guy who 
thought he could resuscitate Baker's career!  Vin Frigging Baker's!!!! 
Walker is like the love child of John Havlicek and Tim Duncan, compared to 
Baker.
The love of my life, I don't mean to sound haughty, but if's obvious to me, 
it's far from certain that it's obvious to some NBA GM. It was obvious to 
at least 95% of this list that Baker should not be traded for under any 
circumstances, yet Wallace went ahead and did it anyway. And now Wallace 
apparently is a hot commodity on the GM job market after the bang-up job he 
did here. While there are undoubtedly some smart individuals in the ranks 
of the NBA GMs, there are also colllege-dropouts who were still living in 
their parents' basement in their 30s, believers in "brain doctors", tooth 
fairies, and God knows what else, guys who think a probability of .35 
GUARANTEES them the first pick in the draft, and Dan Issels.
I'm not saying we can get the moon and the stars for Toine, but like Mark 
said, it's not out of the realm of possibility that some Coach/GM type 
decides that Toine can be saved and that he's the guy to do it. I could 
totally see someone like Riles attempting that (and he might actually pull 
it off). If Vin Baker and Juwan Howard can be traded (the latter, multiple 
times!), so can Walker. It may not be for as much as we think (because your 
sarcastic appraisal of Toine is pretty much right on), but it can be done.
Kestas