Telfair - glowing quotes from another coach (from RealGM)

Mon Jul 3 11:36:32 CDT 2006

Wow, that's awesome!  I'm more convinced than ever
that we shouldn't go after Iverson.  This guy needs to
have the keys.  An Iverson / Pierce team would (yet again)
make the PG an afterthought.

Josh

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Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 12:30 PM
Subject: RE: Telfair - glowing quotes from another coach (from RealGM)

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> [mailto:Celticsstuffgroup at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of JB
> Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 8:38 AM
> To: Celtics Stuff
> Subject: [Celtics' Stuff ] "The losing ends now. He is
> special."-CelticsGreen
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> Bill Simmons the Sports Guy posted this on CelticsBlog and I thought it 
> was
> worth sharing.  I agree with the Sports Guy... I am a little excited to 
> see
> him play.
>
>
> Hey everyone...
>
> Thought you guys would enjoy this email I received from a reader
> about Telfair yesterday... it definitely got me a little more excited
> for the Telfair Era.
>
> --Simmons
>
> *************
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> subj = Sports Guy mail
> comment = I coach Varsity Basketball in New York State. This does not
> qualify me as a super NBA scout, but I do have a pretty good
> knowledge of basketball. I just wanted to share with you a few
> incidents regarding Sebastian Telfair that most people probably have
> never heard about. Every year the New York City champions travel to
> Upstate New York and play for the Federation title at the Glens Falls
> Civic Center. Three years in a row Sebastian Telfair led his team to
> New York City Public School titles. This is something that has never
> happened before and likely never will again. He also won a Federation
> title as a junior and then lost as a senior in his last high school
> game vs Mount Vernon, a team featuring five division one players.
>
> Three different occurances at the Federation Tourney sum up what type
> of kid Sebastian Telfair is and how different he is from 99% of the
> McDonald's All american types we see nowadays.
>
> A) In his Junior year Telfair led his team to the Federation title
> and was awarded the MVP trophy during the ceremonies. This is the
> biggest honor you can receive in New York basketball other than the
> Mr. Basketball award (Which he won his senior year). However in the
> championship game the hero in overtime had been his teammate Antonio
> Pena. After Telfair was handed the MVP trophy, he walked over to
> Pena, gave him a hug, and then presented him with the MVP trophy,
> which to this day Pena still has. The place erupted in applause.
>
> B) As a Senior Telfair was absolutely mobbed with young autograph
> seekers(two of them my children) on the floor of the Civic Center
> after a semifinal win. I would estimate there were about 50 young
> kids all hoping for an autograph. It was after 9PM and these were all
> young kids needing to get home soon. MSG network approaches Telfair
> just as he had begun to sign autographs. They request he begin a
> interview which would be seen on the network that night. Now the
> scene was what interested me. You had a 17 year old being asked to go
> on TV and have himself shown to a huge audience, while he pondered
> turning away or delaying signing for 50 kids. Telfair took the
> gentleman from MSG aside and told him that he would love to do the
> interview, but ONLY after every child who wanted to get an autograph
> had received one. He then proceeded for a good twenty minutes to sign
> every single autograph. And I don't mean just a quick signature. This
> kid looks the children in the eye, asks them how old they are, if
> they are doing well in school, do they listen to their parents, who
> is their favorite player, etc? I was stunned. NO ONE does this at age
> 17, NO ONE.
>
> C) In his final game ever in High school Mount Vernon High school
> badly outplays Lincoln and Telfair loses his chance at repeating as
> Federation Champions.
>
> The next day he will fly to the McDonalds All american game. He
> already seems a lock to go to the NBA draft and is close to signing a
> million dollar sneaker contract. He already has won three straight
> city titles, was named NY state Mr. Basketball, set the Alltime New
> York state scoring record and is on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
> I would think that most kids in this situation would be disapointed
> they lost, but more than ready to move on to all these other great
> things.
>
> Not Telfair. He was absolutely inconsolable after the game.
> Devastated, in tears he clearly could not stand the fact that his
> team had lost. All he cared about was winning. All he does care about
> is winning. People knock kids who cry after losing. I remember Bird
> after losing to Magic in the 79 finals sobbing into a towel. I love
> kids who cry after a loss, because it tells you where their
> priorities lie. With Telfair, Bird and probably the Morrison kid
> everyone is laughing at. At least with these kids you know winning is
> number one on their list.
>
> If Sebastian Telfair does not make it big in the NBA, It will not be
> due to a lack of heart, smarts, class, court vision or love for the
> game. I am quite sure if he had gone to Louisville for two years and
> was in this draft, there is a great chance he would have been picked
> by Toronto at number one, they badly wanted a point guard. At the
> absolute worst he would have been a top five pick.
>
> I have to laugh when people like Jay Bilas and (censored) Vitale are
> saying Marcus Williams or Randy Foye are better. I would bet
> anything, if Sebastian was leading either UCONN or Villanova this
> past year, they wouldn't have been teams that missed the final four.
> And I seriously doubt either Marcus Williams or Randy Foye would have
> won three straight New York city titles like Telfair did. He is a
> winner like no one else who has ever come out of New York City. He
> led them to three straight city titles when numerous alltime greats
> have failed to do so. Alcindor, Hawkins, Erving, Anderson, Mullin,
> Mashburn, etc, have all tried, and no one ever did it.
>
> This is the first pure point guard in Boston since Sherman Douglass.
> But he is much more talented than Sherman ever was.
>
> I have been watching New York City point guards for the past 25
> years. Kenny Smith, Kenny Anderson, Derrick Phelps, Rod Strickland,
> King Rice, Adrian Autry, Pearl Washington and several others. Not one
> of these kids was close to Telfair as far a pure god given court
> vision and awareness. Not even close.
>
> This is a case of a kid who was forced financially to come out early.
> He then goes to the WORST team he could have possibly gone to and far
> away from home no less. He is just 18 years old and still shows
> several early flashes for a young kid with no one to dish to. His
> role models/go to guys on that team are Zach Randolph and Darius Miles?
>
> If he had gone to college for two years, which he couldn't afford to
> do financially, it would be obvious how good he is. I don't think
> anyone in Boston has any idea what is about to happen. Basketball is
> about to be fun again. Get ready for an array of thread the needle
> passes, penetration and winning plays. An absolute non stop motor
> from end to end. The losing ends now. He is special. Ask Lebron James
> what he thinks of this kid. Ask Shawn Livingston or Dwight Howard.
> They all know how good he is. It is just a matter of this year or
> next, it is about to happen. How the Celtics finally had something
> good happen is beyond my comprehension. But NBA ticket will now have
> to be purchased in my household. The Celtics are about to be back in
> a big (or 5' 11&quot;) way and I actually want to see it. [/size][/
> quote]
> **END**
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: celtics-bounces at igtc.com [mailto:celtics-bounces at igtc.com] On Behalf
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> Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 5:37 PM
> Subject: Telfair - glowing quotes from another coach (from RealGM)
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>> Since this was from another team's high school coach, it may be more
>> believeable than from his own coach  - or not :-)  But it sure makes me
>> more
>> comfortable about him not being another Starbury self-centerd type.  And
>> it sounds like
>> he's a 'team first' type that's driven to win.  It may be hype, but at
>> least
>> it's good hype.
>>
>> Can't wait till I get to see him next week in Vegas Baby!'
>>
>> Hank M.
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