Re: The Boer/Boor Wars and the Charge of the Chickenshi-tees

["Josh Ozersky" <jozersky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Untrue; many teams rebuild on the run.  Look at Houston,
San Antonio, our own Celtics before Reggie Lewis died,
and of course Utah is also pretty good now.  Generally,
Ray is right:  teams don't get titles without a top lottery
pick.  But they can get good, and even become contenders.

Josh
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <wayray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <celtics@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 9:03 AM
Subject: rRe: The Boer/Boor Wars and the Charge of the Chickenshi-tees


> Pierce on the block, eh Egg, a good idea. When you're rebuilding,
> you can't be wishy-washy and do things half-way, which is what the
> Atkins trade was.  Took the Celtics right out of a sweet lottery pick
> and a possible franchise point, as you have to believe one of the Paul -
> Livingston - Telfair trio would have been available there.
>
> And it's hard to see a disgruntled Pierce wanting to stick around
> for the Ainge plan to reach fruition.  Picking up a piece there and
> a player here, just doesn't get the job done, unless you have
> owners willing to blow up their salary cap and/or are like the Knicks,
> very attractive to big time free agents.
>
> You simply can't rebuild halfway - you've got to be bad and hope
> you're bad in the draft years, where franchise players are available.
>
> Ray
>
>
> >
> > < You don't see anyone else claiming to have inside information.
>-Jessen
> >
> > Maybe they don't have any.
> >
> > < Just put up or shut up. At the end of the day, BS is still BS..... > -
> > Jessen
> >
> > Herebs another little trinket for you, Sir Redvers.   Pierce is on the
> > trading
> > block. He has been placed there by our own little Danny, the most
> > highly skilled market maker this side of George Soros.
> >
> > Remember when Danny single-handedly lowered Toinebs market value by
> > placing that full page add for him in the NY Times   "Point forward
> > available.
> > 50% off this week only," and then denied to Toine and all that he was
> > on the market?
> >
> > Fast forward/deja vu.   The ever-subtle Danny is now frenetically
rushing
> > hither and yon extending trade feelers on Paul thus lowering his market
> > value as well.   Of course this, too, will be denied all the way till
the
> > "surprise" trade day.
> >
> > In all fairness to Danny, I should note here that he is equally adept at
> > single-handedly RAISING MARKET VALUE.   Just ask Marcus Banks who was
> > responsible for his miraculous ascension from second-round nobody to
> > lottery wonderkind.
> >
> > No doubt about it, Ainge is a natural market maker.   We are lucky to
> > have him.
> >
> > Egg
>
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