--- In Celticsstuffgroup@yahoogroups.com, labvision@... wrote:
>
> Hey, Harry. . .if you buy a six-year-old Pontiac, you expect it to
drive
> like a new Caddy?

No, I wouldn't. But then I'd buy the Caddy.


> The guys Danny drafted at their positions have overachieved.
Take Al's and
> Tony's injuries into account--pretty good players for the 15th and
25th
> picks. Orien and Gomes are technically irrelevant by being picked
50th and 53rd.

OK, take their injuries into account. They're still "ifs" in my
book. True dat. Third options on a good team, at best.
>
> Gerald Green has not been a disappointment--he's a long-term
investment.

Yeah, long term. I call that another "if".


> The sad fact that the team needed ready talent should not be put
on his
> shoulders, and all I blame Danny for is the Scal and Dickau
signings.

But not the Toine trade? That Raef has plenty "hop" right?

However, if
> you consider that Wyc, Slick and Nick probably said that unless
the team could
> contend THIS YEAR, they didn't want to pay anybody and wanted a
roster that
> would optimize the kids' development.

Haven't seen much of that.

> Danny knows more than he's saying, and he knows more than we do.
Too bad
> that nobody would have paid a decent price for Pierce a year ago
because we
> could have done something this season. . . .

Anybody who treasures the brain doc's advice is an idiot.

Harry
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