Re: The Boston Celtics Mailing List Digest V11 #168

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah your such a round ball brain Josh. Well it's my opinion and I'll stick
to it. If and when Hunter moves up I'll eat my words.

DanF


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh Ozersky"

> 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