Telfair - glowing quotes from another coach (from RealGM)

Mon Jul 3 12:10:19 CDT 2006

One more telfair story.  My brother is the head coach at a div 3 school in boston and NBA teams usually use his school's court to practice if they arrive in town early.  

I asked if the blazers and Telfair had been through and he said his team loves telfair.  he said his players were on the elevator, wearing shirts and ties preparing to go to an away game and the blazers had just finished practicing and telfair got on the elevator with his players.  he said telfair turned to one of the players whose tie was crooked, undid the guy's tie, straightened it out for him and wished him good luck.  Seems like a good guy, not sure if he is the player we need, but not sure we should be going after his character (gun charges excluded).

rmn

>From: Jon Duke <jonduke at verizon.net>
>Date: Mon Jul 03 11:30:07 CDT 2006
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>Subject: RE: Telfair - glowing quotes from another coach (from RealGM)

>This was posted on the Yahoo List...
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>-----Original Message-----
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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.
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>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") 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
>Of Josh Ozersky
>Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 12:15 PM
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>Subject: Re: Telfair - glowing quotes from another coach (from RealGM)
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>To: <celtics at igtc.com>
>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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