Re: New Comments from Boston Sports Guy

["Josh Ozersky" <jozersky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree completely.  Simmons has his head up his ass.
I see his point about keeping Walker another year, but
he dismisses LaFrentz as a guy with bad knees (which
he isn't) and totally ignores the fact that they also got
Jiri Welsch in the deal, who is practically a Havliczech.
(I just made that up, by the way -- feel free to use it.)
He's as bad in his way as Peter May...the Ricky Davis
trade was a home run, and Simmons should know it.

Josh

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Hill" <jahill199@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Celtics" <celtics@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: New Comments from Boston Sports Guy


> This is nonsense.  Keeping Walker and his whining would have been the
worst
> thing the Ainge could have done.  There is a reason no one would trade for
> Walker.  It's amazing that more teams claim to be interested in Baker and
> Wallace then in Walker!  Walker has skills and is at least a decent person
> from all accounts.
>
> The biggest mistake was Ainge believing OB saying he would/could change to
> coach the style of BB Ainge wanted.  He did for awhile, but when LaFrantz
> went out he reverted to his old style.
>
> <Jim
>
>
>
> >There was only one move: Stay the course, hope to get lucky in a crap
> conference again, then gear everything towards the
> >summer of 2004 with Williams coming off the cap (and hope Charlotte
claimed
> Walker). If that didn't happen, you head into
> >the following season knowing that you can easily trade Walker in the
final
> year of his contract, knowing Battie was coming
> >off, and knowing you have a nucleus of Pierce, Banks, Baker the albatross
> and cap space.
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