The Boston Celtics Mailing List Digest, V14 #129

[steve knight]

gene, 

mark's got a point here. al is not better than jo now
or in the foreseeable future, but he sure could be.
let's check back in 3 years. 

that said, i'm not trading al right now. if i'm danny,
i'm not breaking up the kids until i know they're not
what i need, and he won't know that until the end of
next season. we got a great glimpse of what we had
last year, but we still need a longer look at perk,
al, greene and maybe even gomes before we start
trading our young talent. i think we know what we have
with delonte and allen, and i think we're all willing
to concede green can a special talent. it's just a
little too early on the others. 

in any case, anyone heard anything about what ainge
has up his sleeve for the draft? i'm hoping if someone
doesn't fall to him, he trades down and gets a veteran
point, scorer or big, plus a later draft pick.  



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Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 10:45:00 -0400
From: "Berry, Mark  S" <berrym at BATTELLE.ORG>
Subject: RE: Apples and Oranges
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Gene, if you want to argue Al will be better someday,
fine. But come 
on.
Al was a colossal disappointment this season, and part
of that is
because of his lack of desire. Al is going to have to
work very, very
hard to ever reach Jermaine O'Neal's level. 

I'm not sold on trading Al but if you do it, then a
guy like O'Neal is
exactly who they should be targeting. He's a sure
thing in the prime of
his career. A game-changer. 

Now, do I have questions about his injury history?
Sure. But that is 
the
extent of my concern on Jermaine O'Neal. He handled
the Artest stuff as
well as any player possibly could. He carried a bad
Indiana team last
season and this (when healthy). 

I'll in no way be disappointed if we start camp with
Al on the roster.
But to get this attached to anyone -- to the point
where you argue he's
better than Jermaine O'Neal (he wasn't better than
Raef LaFrentz!) -- 
is
counterproductive.

Mark

 

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