Bye bye big intangible, we hardly knew thee

[Jeff White]

I was that "unnamed poster," and I stand by what I said then.  The fact that
the C's released Wallace yesterday doesn't give your evaluation any more
credibility in my eyes.

The C's are in a unique position.  I'm not sure what their expectations were
heading into the season, but the realize now they could very well contend
for the NBA title immediately, and so they're going to fire all their
ammo.  Another year, it might make sense to keep Wallace and invest the time
in developing him.  This season, it makes more sense to try to land a
veteran PG or big man to fill that spot.

As George Allen liked to say, The Future is Now.


Jeff White



On 12/19/07, ryan nelson <ryanmnelson at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> I hate to give myself a public pat on the back here, but a number of
> people questioned my credibility for saying Brandon "The big intangible"
> Wallace (and yes I came up with that nickname in response) was not an
> NBA player based solely on his summer league stats.  I was told I "had
> to see him play" and he "does all of the little things" (this is one of
> my favorite lines from an unnamed poster "I understand your point about
> stats, but you'd have more credibility, at least in my eyes, if you'd
> actually seen Wallace play once.").  However, I stand firm in my belief
> that you just don't score 6 points a game or put up marginal stats
> across the board in the summer league and make the NBA no matter how
> many intangibles you have.  Go back and read the e-mails from July 9th
> to about July 13th to see the abuse I took for pointing out the obvious.
> I guess I now have to question everyone's credibility who watched him
> put up pedestrian numbers in the summer league (where the all-stars
> included the immortal von wafer and javaris crittenton and an mvp of
> Nate robinson) and thought he would contribute.  I am all for debate,
> but the vitriol I took for my stance on Wallace was unnecessary.  On the
> bright side, at least Eric Macarthur now has another teammate for the
> historic didn't pan out celtic summer league future all-star team along
> with Brandon Hunter.
>
> Of course, I'll only give my self a one-handed pat on the back instead
> of two handed  because I am pretty sure I said the Celtics will never
> win anything with Danny Ainge as GM (and if I didn't say it, I meant
> to), so as always, what do I know?
>
> Is Al Jefferson an all-star yet (sorry mark berry, it's a joke),
>
> rmn
>
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