Swingman Lovefest

[Berry, Mark S]

Who knows what might have happened with Sampson under different
circumstances? He was really good before injuries hit him.

I agree on the luck thing. It's uncanny. The only really good luck we've
had post-Bias is Pierce slipping to us in the draft. And even that, in
hindsight, isn't quite so lucky. We were going to draft Nowitzki ... 

This is why I'm convinced things are going to change with the upcoming
lottery. It's like all these years of bad luck have been focused into
this season -- Red, DJ, all the injuries -- and we're going through the
"always darkest before the dawn" period of Celtics history. And what
better player to break the string of bad luck than the next Bill
Russell?

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: celtics-bounces at igtc.com [mailto:celtics-bounces at igtc.com] On
Behalf Of Kim Malo
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 3:15 PM
To: The Boston Celtics Mailing List; The Boston Celtics Mailing List
Subject: RE: Swingman Lovefest

At 03:07 PM 3/1/2007, Berry, Mark  S wrote:
>The only guy on that list as highly regarded as Oden is Ralph Sampson.

Who Red wanted... BADLY, BTW. Went down to visit him and tried VERY 
hard to convince him to come out earlier so Cs could draft him before 
anyone else really caught on to him. Red was not only very good, he 
was also very, very lucky. And while we've had bad management since 
his glory days creating some of our problems, we've also had a 
complete absence of the luck that got him Cousy, didn't get him Sampson,
etc.

Kim 


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