Re: Marbury = Walker

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

yes yes yes and yes. Celts can't have their cake and eat it, at least for
now until we give a chance for development of the new players. This may come
at some point in the season when things don't improve. McCarty is not as bad
as he looks. He's just not being used correctly. It takes time to create a
puzzle but the pieces must be moved around a bit to fit.

DanF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Giovanello"

> If he were truly looking to the future, the young guys would be playing
> (25 for Banks, 15-20 for Perkins, 5-10 for Hunter).  If he truly liked
> OB, he would have discussed with him that his job is safe and to play
> the young guys and ignore the win loss record so we can see how these
> guys shape up for next year and start implementing our new offense.
> Further, OB would know his job was secure.  My sense (all along) is that
> Ainge has tried to have his cake and eat it too.  He has claimed to be
> building for the future but cant keep his eyes off the present.  Under
> this line of reasoning, instead of waiting and dumping Toines contract
> around this time of year for cap space and a pick he takes on the mighty
> expensive and oft-injured Raef.   He extends OB to squeeze the most
> possible wins out this year (who cares about the draft) and maybe eke
> into the playoffs rather than bringing in a coach with a real offensive
> system and giving him time to develop it.
>
> Regardless of his skills as a coach, I detest OB for the way he threw
> Antoine under the bus.  I know many of you do not like Antoine, but OB
> saying they were forced to play this terrible 3 all the time offense
> because of Antoine's control of the locker room is a joke.  This is the
> closest thing to an offense that OB brings to the table.  Hopefully,
> next year OB will be back under Pitino's wing in Louisville...