Re: The Boston Celtics Mailing List Digest V11 #168

["Josh Ozersky" <jozersky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The problem with project minutes is that they only
produce project numbers.  All players need minutes
to produce, and none more than young ones learning
to adapt to the NBA game.  Brandon Hunter will never
produce if given ten minutes a game behind Walter
McCarty.  Neither would Danny Fortson, Carlos Boozer,
or any other young power player.  Every minute Walter
plays is wasted developmental time for Hunter, who seems
to me to be a bigger, more explosive Clarence Weatherspoon
at the very worst.  Your attitude is short-sighted and
counter-productive.  There's no reason to believe that the
guy ahead of him is helping us win; quite the opposite.  And
he'll never give us anything if he isn't allowed to develop
in real-game situations.  Let me also mention something
else:  I don't give a shit how many of his shots are blocked,
or how many lanky 3s score on him.  We need his toughness,
physicality, box-outs, and attitude on this team desperately.
His rebounding, of course, speaks for itself.

Josh



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Celtics@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: The Boston Celtics Mailing List Digest V11 #168


> No sense going over the reasons he did well for 4-5 games. Just let us
know
> which 4-5 games next seasons he'll show up again. Patience isn't one of my
> virtues. It's what have you done for me lately that impresses me. We're
> trying to win games not nurse projects. Right now he's getting project
> minutes.
>
> DanF
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Shawn Niles"
>
> > I've been thinking about Hunter and some people's proclamation that he
is
> a
> > dud, most noticeably Forant.
> >
> > Think about it. Hunter basically did not play at all in the first half
of
> > the year. So throw that out. He finally gets a chance to start and show
> what
> > he has and he ends up with 4 or 5 real solid games in a row. We are
> talking
> > double-double type of games. The first game he sort of struggled in was
> the
> > Minnesota game. After that, Carroll seemed to lose all faith in him,
> because
> > of that one game. His minutes were drastically cut, to the point that he
> now
> > is receiving mostly dnp-cd's.
> >
> cut