25 GCoAT Discussions

[Casperian]

If you want to discuss your votes, do it here.

[Eja117]

Personally I think we should rank every Celtic of all time at every position.

It's easy to rank best guys but what about mid tier or worst guys? Like Eric Williams and Montross. Does Acie Earl beat Jerome Moiso? This kept me up for hours the other night

[Redz]

Personally I think we should rank every Celtic of all time at every position.

It's easy to rank best guys but what about mid tier or worst guys? Like Eric Williams and Montross. Does Acie Earl beat Jerome Moiso? This kept me up for hours the other night

Hell yeh...Acie Earl over Moiso in a heartbeat!  Kite over Montross...and Kandi Man over Szabo

In fact if I'm ranking those six:

Kite
Montross
Kandi
Earl
Moiso
Szabo

ugghhh...anyone care to debate ranking those 6?

[Roy Hobbs]

So, we had our first (serious) poster rank somebody other than Russell and Bird in the top two.

Cowens over Larry?  Really?  I know that Cowens is a little underrated, but on what planet was he a better player than Larry Bird?

[Eja117]

Personally I think we should rank every Celtic of all time at every position.

It's easy to rank best guys but what about mid tier or worst guys? Like Eric Williams and Montross. Does Acie Earl beat Jerome Moiso? This kept me up for hours the other night

Hell yeh...Acie Earl over Moiso in a heartbeat!  Kite over Montross...and Kandi Man over Szabo

In fact if I'm ranking those six:

Kite
Montross
Kandi
Earl
Moiso
Szabo

ugghhh...anyone care to debate ranking those 6?

Good question. I mena Kandi kind of played better than Earl and didn't complain, but you got the feeling that basketball was something he did cause he could make money and Earl seemed to want it way more.

Montross had a good rookie year at a time we needed it, whereas Kite did little when they had a great team so it's tough to say. 

I think we need to get Chris Mihm, Potapenko, and Travis Knight into this discussion, and we haven't even gotten to Thomas Hamilton yet. Maybe playing a full year should be a requirement.

To be fair Mosio didn't play the same position so he'd be on the pf list, not the center list

[Casperian]

So, we had our first (serious) poster rank somebody other than Russell and Bird in the top two.

Cowens over Larry?  Really?  I know that Cowens is a little underrated, but on what planet was he a better player than Larry Bird?

Well, maybe he was one of the guys who partied with Cowens in 1974? 
I`m a huge fan of Dave Cowens (in retrospect), and can understand if people vote him for #1. These votes are good to get a different view on the topic, imo.

I can also understand if people vote Tommy Heinsohn for #1, it depends on how you weigh off-the-court contributions. Personally, I`ve had a hard time leaving him off of my top 3 for exactly this reason, but I think that Russell, Havlicek and Bird are just iconic faces of three (or four) decades of Celtic basketball, and you canīt put them lower.

I was also inclined to put Bird above Russell, since Bird was one of my childhood heroes, and Iīm still defending his GOAT-status against Magic and Jordan groupies from time to time. But realistically, Russell has to be the #1 Celtic, because everything else just followed and mirrored what he has accomplished.

[Casperian]

Cousy
Hondo
Scali

That`s a slap in the face for Will Solomon.

[wdleehi]

Cousy
Hondo
Scali

That`s a slap in the face for Will Solomon.

Scali beat him out just because of the ring.