Re: random things make you say Hmmmm

["Josh Ozersky" <jozersky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Just had a quick look at nbadraft.net....I can't remember the
last time I was this unexcited about a draft.  We already have
major development projects on this team who haven't gotten
enough minutes, and this draft seems top heavy with finesse
baby KG types and unproven point guards.  What I would like
to see is a Boozer-like animal, a tough-as-nails hungry, aggressive
player, with a ready made game.  A guard like this would be
good too, an Artest / Quentin Richardson type.  At the top,
Ekafor is the only prospect that turns me on, because a major
shotblocker is the one thing that could really turn the Celtics
around.  He's only 6 9" but so was Bill Russell.  As for the usual
crop of "next gasols" I think I'll pass.  Those guys need the ball
a lot to develop, and they won't get that in Boston.  Bring
me ready-made players at this stage, from good programs with
real coaches.  You can draft unskilled freak athletes with the 
low picks.

Josh

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Piotrowski" <markp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Celtics" <celtics@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 10:39 AM
Subject: random things make you say Hmmmm


> -- don't know if anyone caught Inside the NBA after the Warriors upset 
> of the Spurs, but they had John Thompson interviewing Yao Ming and 
> Patrick Ewing.  Ewing & Ming were sitting next to each other and it 
> demonstrated just how BIG Ming is.  Ewing looked like a guard sitting 
> next to Yao (imagine say Mark Jackson sitting next to Ewing) -- easily 
> a foot shorter than Ming.  It was incredible.  
> 
> 
> -- Its easy to forget that Ricky Davis is still so young and still 
> growing as a player -- which is scary.  In fact did you realize he's 
> only a year & 2 months older than Brandon Hunter? And only 4 months 
> older than Jiri Welsch? It's so sad that the national media just goes 
> on and on about Davis being a cancer -- as if people can never change.  
> Paul Silas was on PTI yesterday and "wouldn't touch" Bob Ryan's 
> question about sticking it to the Celts by trading them Davis.  
> 
> I love Davis' play since coming here, especially his passing, his 
> (vastly underrated) midrange game, his hustle and diving on the floor 
> and his sheer enthusiasm.  Ricky has a schtick.  He's part streetballer 
> (caught him on ESPN2 late Saturday playing a few years back with the 
> And1 crew), but all these media types (like Tony Kornheiser, Stephen A. 
> Smith, etc.) want to destroy him b/c of it -- as if they didn't have a 
> schtick and as if their's weren't more irritating.
> 
> I see no reason -- and I mean this sincerely -- that Ricky Davis can't, 
> given 32-36 mins a night, produce at the level of Antoine Walker's avg. 
> over his last 2 years here.  (21 pt, 8 reb, 5 asst, 1.5 stl).  Maybe 
> Davis could only get 6 reb a game, but he's as good -- if not better -- 
> a passer as Walker (though, ironically, less flashy), hustles more, and 
> shoots a much higher FG% (48.2 since coming to Boston).
> 
> 
> 
> -- current draft standings:  12, 24 (DAL), 25 (DET)
> 
> NBA Draft.net:
> 12 - Josh Childress (6-7 SG Stanford) though Kosta Perovic (7-2 C 
> Serbia) is at #13 (portland)
> 24 - Rashad McCants (6-3 SG, N. Carolina)
> 25 - Rafael Araujo (6-11 C, BYU)
> 
> Personally I couldn't see Ainge taking a SG at 24...I think he goes big 
> with both the 24 & 25 picks, unless there is a surprise slider.  7-3 Ha 
> Seung-Jin (S. Korea) is slated at 27 (San Antonio) and HS PF Al 
> Jefferson (6-8) at 30.
> 
> 42 - Timmy Bowers (6-2 PG, Miss. St.).