Repeat after me Mr. Jessen: The Celtics are about to become "Jiriactic".
That's your second best player until either a trade is made or Perkins
starts. Don't be surprised if Ainge thinks that Jiri has much more upside than your man Kedrick.
As far as Brown goes, if he can't beat out an injured Jones for the starting assignment, then it makes no sense for Ainge to pick up his option year.
Better to package him in a deal with Battie, Williams, and the draft picks and
bring back a No. 2 guy and some toilet paper.
Good call on LaFrentz. He won't be great, but I can't see him not being good at least. Ray
** Original Subject: The word out of Big D
** Original Sender: Celtic4Hire@xxxxxxx
** Original Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:03:51 -0700 (PDT)
** Original Message follows...
Word out of Big D:
People concerned, and rightly so, that the Mavs didn't solve a weakness (center), got worse at center, helped a strength (small/power forward) and that the may not develop the low post option now with Jamison minutes being cut that they will need in the playoffs. Don't care that they lost LaFrenz or his big contract. Cuban talks about playing all those guys at the same time. (Who is going to rebound or at least foul the opposing center? )Think Walker is overrated. Bob Ryan, who was referred to the Godfather of basketball sport writers, got his article quoted as describing Walker perfectly in 100 words or less:
Say this about 'Toine: He is very lucky, because he could not have gone to a more comfortable place, or be hooked up with a more compatible coach. Dallas is the ultimate Basketball Worker's Paradise, a franchise where players are fawned over to a disgusting degree in the guise of creating a viable workplace. Mark Cuban is every athlete's fantasy owner.
The best part for Antoine, however, is that he has found the right coach. Don Nelson is the champion of the oddball player, and there is no more oddball player that Antoine Walker, a 6-foot-8-inch guy with a questionable body who can make threes but who shoots too many of them; who can dribble like any guard you can name but can't really handle the ball properly; who has post-up moves but can't get them off against any good athlete; and who can make sensational passes but can't be trusted to make them at the proper moment. If anyone can make sense of all this, it's our Nellie.
Conclusion: Nellie got bored and Cuban is like a little boy at Christmas....
BTW, take a look at LaFrenz's career numbers. Forget last year. He isn't going to be great. He won't win any games for you. But he will be consistant and above average. But someone is going to have to step up to be your second best player...
Do you really think Jones will step over Kedrick for the starting stop. He hasn't played at all. I can't imagine how Jones could have outplayed Kedrick to date this preseason if he hadn't been injured....
DJessen33
DJessen33
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