Re: Joe Smith

[Warwick Janetzki <giants@icplus.net.au>]

Alden Brosseau wrote:
> 
> For those of you who still fancy Joe Smith as a Celtic, check out these
> extracts from an item in today's San Francisco Examiner:
> 
> "Word of the Joe Smith fraud is starting to spread around the league.
> 
> "People who see him for the first time regularly ask what happened to him,
> wondering what happened to the player who was picked first in the 1995
> draft.
> 
> "His offensive game is a mess, his rebounding has declined, and his defense
> . . . well, the topic is usually avoided in polite conversation.
> 
> "If Smith were a hockey player, his plus-minus differential would have
> gotten him sent down to the minors.
> 
> "He is now averaging 15.2 points, 7.5 rebounds and 41.5 percent shooting.
> 
> "But numbers don't begin to tell the story of Smith's season-long
> inefectiveness.  Watching him let a perfect pass in the lane go through his
> legs for a turnover, committing a lane violation and failing to hustle
> after a loose ball, that presents a more accurate picture.
> 
> "Scouts from teams that at one point might have been interested in trading
> for the free-agent-to-be have surely picked up on it.  And they can't help
> but notice that the guy going on a scoring spree against the Warriors is
> usually the one Smith is supposed to defend."
> 
> Alden

I never said I liked the guy. I dont think he is worthy of Chauncey. If
you're going to trade for Joe Smith, make sure you trade some of your
garbage and get someone whose going to fit into your system. If the C's
do that, then it'd be okay.

I'd suggest

Billups + Minor  for Smith + Delk. They'd never do it though.

Warwick
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