Re: What what what?!?

["Josh Ozersky" <jozersky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ryan -- sarcasm alert!

josh

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ryan Lee" <rlee_at_channing@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <Celtics@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 1:26 PM
Subject: What what what?!?


> >>>Clearly, Ainge could have traded Antoine for Kobe or T-Mac or
> someone like that, but Ainge was determined to take the worst deal
> available. Or he could have held onto Antoine and let him opt out after
> this season to walk away for nothing, .. . .
>
>
> Mark B, did I read this right or did you actually mean what you wrote
here?  normally I agree with 99.9999 percent of what you write but this
statement seems a bit absurd.  Ainge was determined to make the worst deal?
I don't think anyone is that stupid because if we could have had Kobe or
T-Mac for Walker, then anyone would have pulled the trigger on that deal.
the rest of the league knew that Walker was not a true franchise player
worth franchise dollars and that his numbers on the Celtics (except for his
rebounding) were inflated so Danny took what he could get.  Hindsight is
always 20/20 because we probably could have got Abdur Rahim for Walker but
at the time, even the Hawks did not want Walker which tells you something
about Melonhead #8.  Frankly I think the Raef deal was a fair one because
the player stats do not tell how talented Raef really is in terms of skill
and hoops IQ.  On Dallas he hardly played a full game with that loaded
starting lineup and I would be w!
>  illing to
>  bet if Raef had as many touches on the ball as Toine or as many minutes,
his numbers would be comparable to Toine's.  I think people were too caught
up with Walkers stats and disliked the deal based on those numbers.  Anyway
this argument is old history so I won't rehash it.  As for Danny, I think
he's doing a fine job and that the team will get better as they make
adjustments.   Carroll is defintely a better in-game coach than Obie and if
they make the playoffs and upset someone in the first round, I wouldn't mind
seeing him stay for a little bit.
>
> Ryan
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