tbg@apollo.uucp (Tom Gross) (03/19/86)
> By the way Tom, when you talk about Dallas needing a guy like Greg Kite, > do you do so with a straight face? > ... I'm as big a Celtics fan as anyone, > but I recognize a stiff when I see one. > Let's just say I have only Boston's interest in mind. I take it you think such a deal would be good for the Celtics? > It would take Boston's first-round pick > (the one they got from Seattle, which will be a top-seven lottery pick) > to extract Schrempf. The Globe's Bob Ryan has been advocating such a move, > but I would wait to see what the lottery turns up. If they're in a position > to grab Len Bias, for example, that's the thing to do. If they draft > sixth or seventh, I'd trade the pick for Scrempf in a second. I don't follow college ball enough (or at all) to really comment (I would be interested in hearing more about this Bias fellow). In general though I think one has to admire Auerbach's tendency to trade stiffs like Rick Robey and Gerald Henderson (yes, I think they are both stiffs, Gerald could at least jump but that's about it). In a lot of ways I think he is profitting from what I would say was his WORST deal (one shouldn't blame him for getting Mcadoo), namely trading Paul Westphal for Charlie Scott, although at the time I thought it was a great trade. Anyway, what I mean is I think other teams might be hoping to duplicate Phoenix's good fortune in that trade. This is actually a possible new topic: blunders Red Auerbach has made. I WOULD blame Auerbach for getting SIDNEY WICKS (in effect for Paul Silas. Does anyone remember the details of that deal?). Picking up Curtis Rowe just compounded the mistake. Come to think of it I would say getting Wicks was his biggest mistake. I suppose one could point to any number of 1st round draft picks that didn't work out. For a number of years it irked me to see Philly pick up guys like Maurice Cheeks in the second round while the Celts were picking stiffs who were "coachable and fundamentally sound", like Greg Kite or Greg Mcdonald. Indeed, I think Bill Fitch deserves a LOT of credit for the current Celtics team. According to Fitch (as I recall reading), he takes credit for coming up with the Parish/Mchale deal. If the Celtics end up with the 6th or 7th pick I will be VERY interested to see how they use it. It should tell us something about how they evaluate talent these days. Tom Gross Apollo Computer, Inc. Chelmsford, MA