Great quote by Doc..

[Mark Piotrowski]

I'm a fairly consistent Ainge supporter, but this -- and the 
associated rumblings that we don't have an advance Pro Scouting 
departement do worry me a little bit.

I think you still do the Davis trade (though i think Ainge 
underestimated how important Eric Williams was to this team in the 
lockeroom and on the court).  And maybe once you've used teh Davis 
deal to upgrade your talent and he's worn thin you do the Wally deal 
just to rid us of Ricky.

But that was my fear of Wally to begin with ... he's one of those 
guys who might be nice, but who is grating on the nerves (don't know 
if I'd go so far as calling him a cancer, but certainly not the 
easiest teammate to coexist with).  He didn't do much on the court to 
counteract me feeling that way about him.  He seems almost like A 
Bill Laimbeer type -- but on your own team.

I'm glad Wally is gone, i never thought he was that great a fit for 
this team.  Allen just feels like a much better fit.  I'm excited to 
see what #20 does in green!

(the other) mark


>I would take that as Doc being classy. Wally has a reputation as a
>jerk and a locker room cancer. Doc is saying in a roundabout way that
>we greatly improved our locker room by getting rid of Wally and
>getting Allen.
>
>Noah
>
>On 6/30/07, Nathan Arneal <drivenkick43 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  > Man this guy knows his stuff. This from the offical
>  > press release on the trade on Celtics.com:
>  >
>  > "I think they (the younger players) can benefit more
>  > from just watching Ray Allen, his actions," Rivers
>  > said. "One of the things that we struggled with [by]
>  > having all the young guys was that they didn't have a
>  > lot of guys in their locker room showing them the
>  > professional way, you know, besides Paul and Wally."
>  >
>  > Ummm. Ok. He then followed up by saying: "And now we
>  > have way more veteran guys in the locker room, by
>  > which I mean Paul and Ray."