Re: Stop. Reverse.

[Kestutis.Kveraga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kestutis Kveraga)]

--- You wrote:
Danny basically says (a)
everybody--except him, the owners, and O'Brien--is
stupid 
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What he said was that most fans and sportswriters don't understand the internal
dynamics 
of his team as well as he does, which is hard to argue with. This is a list of
mostly hard-core fans, who  follow the team a lot closer and understand it a
lot better than the average fan (at least from my experience talking to other
Celtics fans).  Most sporstwriters, especially the out-of-town ones, similarly
have no idea what goes on in a particular team's locker room. In fact, a lot of
the syndicated columnists are not very competent at all, as far I'm concerned.
They tend to go mostly by stats, honors, and highlights. 


--- You wrote:
(b) both teams were improved by the trade (this
is what teams that got the short end of a trade always
say..."both teams will benefit".  Since when is that a
good thing?  I thought you made trades that helped
your team and hurt the other team...we compete with
every team in this league and we can't go around
making trades that improve another team...it only
lessens our ability to win a
championship...hypothetically, if we traded with every
team in the league and each trade "benefits each team"
then we would never get better, since better-ness is
measured against other teams....trades are made to
screw people and to make yourself better. 
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No, not necessarily. You don't seem to understand that getting better does not
ipso facto mean getting better BY AN EQUAL AMOUNT. Both teams may benefit from
a trade, but one may benefit more, and not necessarily by getting the "better"
player in the trade. The NBA, as any other league, has an imperfect
distribution of players across teams, meaning that not all players fit
optimally with their respective teams. Trades is one way to try to improve
that. It's entirely possible that both teams (or any number of teams involved)
benefit from the trade, but they don't all benefit equally. If we traded with
every team in the league and the trade benefitted every team involved, the
league as a whole would get better (because every team got better), but we
wouldn't necessarily be back where we started.  You're committing a logical
fallacy here. 


--- You wrote:
You know what he can wave hello to?  Championships, an
owner that likes him and rewards him for hard work,
and a GM that will work to get the best out of him. 
And you know what?  If somebody gets injured (say Dirk
or Finley) Antoine will be a All-Star on that team. 
And, depending on how well Dallas plays, Antoine could
be an all-star...it's not out of the realm of
possibility that Antoine could average 15 points, 10
boards, 7 assists as a small forward...plenty good to
be an All-Star.
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Well, even if that were to be the case (unlikely, IMO), so what? To rue the
loss of such a good player if he could become this type of player ONLY when
traded to Dallas is silly. It's crying over losing something we never could've
had. 
Kestas