"need an impact player"

[Steve Ouellette]

---- Mark Piotrowski <markp at pop3.coe.ufl.edu> wrote: 
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> i agree that we need an impact player -- but am increasingly afraid 
> that we'll be picking between Foye, M. Williams, Splitter and S. 
> Williams.... none of whom excite me to the point of wanting to keep 
> the pick.
> 

I'm starting to get the same feeling. I would be perfectly content with Thomas, Bargnani, Aldridge, Gay or Roy (less so with Morrison, but I think he'll go top 3), but if those six go before them, I'm not as enamored with the next group of guys. Foye or Carney or Brewer or or Splitter one of the Williams boys could be fine, but I've got questions about all of them.

Hopefully someone will slip up ahead of the Celts. But I won't start stressing until after the draft lottery.


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> Telfair seems like the kind of "buy low, sell high" guy Ainge might 
> take a chance on and can develop into a true PG -- a backcourt of 
> Telfair and West might be the poor mans/2000s equivalent of 
> Thomas/Dumars -- undersized but very talented.
> 

I don't know if the No. 7 pick plus another first-rounder for a guy who hasn't done anything in two years since he was the No. 13 pick is buying low. I'd rather draft Marcus Williams than deal for Telfair.

Steve O