celtics roundup

[Jaims]

mark, i'm with josh here.  (no pun) mark our words, telfair is the pg we've 
been looking for to run the team.  :)

delonte's good but very replaceable... pure pg's are very hard to find.  we 
have one now.  just sit tight and enjoy the show, man.


Jaims

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Berry, Mark S" <berrym at BATTELLE.ORG>
To: "The Boston Celtics Mailing List" <celtics at igtc.com>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 4:05 AM
Subject: RE: celtics roundup


> You're assuming Telfair is something he hasn't proven to be yet. There
> is a reason he was available. Portland liked Jarret Jack and Steve Blake
> at least as much. Jack and Blake both had better numbers than Telfair
> last year.
>
> I know he can make highlight reel passes. I don't know that he's a
> better player or point guard than Delonte West at this point. Delonte
> started 70-some games for a better team, put up excellent numbers and
> was the second most important player on the team last year. Telfair lost
> his starting job, put up bad numbers on a worse team and was deemed
> expendable.
>
> Now ... If Telfair reaches his full potential, he could be a great point
> guard. But just moving from Portland to Boston doesn't automatically do
> that. Believe me, I'm hoping he turns into that player. I really, really
> am. If he does, Delonte makes a great swing guard. But Telfair still has
> a ways to go to prove it to me.
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: celtics-bounces at igtc.com [mailto:celtics-bounces at igtc.com] On
> Behalf Of Josh Ozersky
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 3:57 PM
> To: The Boston Celtics Mailing List
> Subject: Re: celtics roundup
>
> Mark,
>
> I know you like Delonte and everything, but on the best day
> of his life he couldn't have beaten Telfair as an 8th grader.
> I am surprised that you are so skeptical about a player who
> nearly everyone regards as true born point guard, in a period
> when such players are as rare as plutonium.  I'd like to see
> how many minutes West gets at the 1 after Telfair has been
> in camp a week.  We've been needing this guy for ten years.
>
> Josh
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Berry, Mark S" <berrym at BATTELLE.ORG>
> To: "The Boston Celtics Mailing List" <celtics at igtc.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 1:27 PM
> Subject: RE: celtics roundup
>
>
>> Josh, he's a great passer. We know that. But there's a lot more to
> being
>> a great point guard than just that. Look at his numbers the last two
>> years -- not good. In fact, he really only had one good month last
>> season -- and the team was 1-10 that month.
>>
>> He might mature into the player Ainge thinks he can be, but it's far
>> from a sure thing. Yes, he came from a bad team but that cuts both
> ways.
>> Believe me, I'm not dismissing his talent. I do think he has a chance
> to
>> be good. But I'm not ready to say he's our starting point guard or
> ever
>> will be. He was a second-year guy, just like Delonte last year, and
>> couldn't hold Delonte's sneakers.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: celtics-bounces at igtc.com [mailto:celtics-bounces at igtc.com] On
>> Behalf Of jozersky at optonline.net
>> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:45 AM
>> To: The Boston Celtics Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: celtics roundup
>>
>> Flashy sideshow?  Are you kidding?  Telfair is one of the top five
>> natural point guards in the league right now.  I don't think you
>> appreciate what he is.  Check this out:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI9GATF5yLg
>>
>> I'm against the Iverson trade just because it would take the ball
>> out of his hands.
>>
>> Josh
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Berry, Mark  S" <berrym at BATTELLE.ORG>
>> Date: Thursday, July 13, 2006 10:49 am
>> Subject: celtics roundup
>>
>>> A few things today:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --- Pierce has agreed to his extension. That locks him up for the
> next
>>> five seasons. That's a perfect deal for the Celts. His deal will be
> up
>>> just as he starts to decline. At no point in that contract should
>>> he be
>>> untradeable. Good deal.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --- Big Al quietly got better every game in Vegas. He was buried
>>> prettyquickly out there, but I think it's reasonable to expect some
>>> rust from
>>> him after being off for so long. I'm still not willing to hinge
>>> everything on him, but he deserves some credit for improving
>>> throughoutthe week. He has taken some unfair shots this week.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --- Rondo has been the most pleasant surprise of Vegas for me. I
>>> wasn'ta fan of picking him up, but it sounds like he's playing
>>> well. I still
>>> question just how good he can be without even a Kidd-level outside
>>> shot,but it sounds like he has been impressive.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --- I hope Philly trades Iverson to someone else soon. I hate this.
>>> Simmons in his chat yesterday said he'd trade Ratliff, Green,
>>> Jeffersonand a No. 1 for Iverson. That deal would make me sick.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --- I said it before ... Ainge better be right about Telfair. If not,
>>> that trade could go down as a really, really bad one. Brandon Roy has
>>> been impressive by all accounts. If Telfair is just a flashy
> sideshow,
>>> Ainge will regret that move. I'm not saying that's the case, but
>>> I'm not
>>> convinced Telfair only needed a change of scenery.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
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