2010 CelticsBlog Draft: Atlantic Division Press Conferences

[Edgar]

Press Conference Part 1.


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El Salvador, September 7, 2010.


Take yourself to Las Veraneras, Golf, Club and Villas over Sonsonate, El Salvador.

(you can hear, Marleys music....far away... and... Every little thing...gonna be AlRIGHT!!!)

Its a Warn Afternoon there, by the beach. With a just served Ice Cold Beer , Redz, Larry and Edgar just break into a massive hysterical triunfant laugh.

the scenary looks like this




The laugh its basically remembering and inmediate future dreaming
guess what... yes!!



All the way from La Union to Chatham, the 3 Amigos feel this is the time to shine,
they assembled a mean machine of talent and will.
Theyre ready to celebrate again this year..when season ends
at game 4 of NBA 2010-2011 finals.

this time Larry have a new Capitan to lead his team
and believe me

Hes


Ready!


Toronto AngryCrotorPickels

ROSTER





p.g. Jammer Nelson, Delonte West
s.g. Ray Allen, Wayne Ellington
s.f. Paul Pierce, Ime Udoka,Quincy Pondexter ( love the name)
p.f. David Lee, Brad Miller
c.   Kendrick Perkins, Joel anthony

overseas: Rasho Nesterovic.


or.







Overseas

Rasho.. hes just too ugly to ruin my preview.

Coach




THE LEGENDHimself.




Lets see the team..

and the drafting plan
A Championship team have to fit this all

All Star PG      Check  Jameer
All Star SG      Check  Ray
All Star SF      Check  Paul Pierce
All Star PF      Check  David Lee
Champion Center  Check  Perkins ( come on you all know he deserves to be an all Star too)



Defensive Starting Backup Center         Check  Joel Anthony
Range defense at Backup PF               Check  Brad Miller
Defensive Backup SF                      Check  Ime Udoka
Shooting at the bench for SG             Check  Delonte West
Young Scoring Legs from the bench        Check Quincy Pondexter
 
Add cool nicknames

The playaaa
Jesus
The Truth
Perkules
Legend.


Man this team is simply sick
Pick your poison


The Strategy


Its Raining 3s  Alleluya
and enough penetration to make you worried.
People who know how to deffend.
Simply too much shooting and BKB IQ for any team to handle
This team can simply outplay every team in every position

great rotation at guards...almost unbeatable

Jammer, Delonte, Ray all can play point from time to time
Paul, Udoka, the Surprise of this year will be Pondexter
A great Big man rotation in Lee, Miller, Perkins, Anthony


If you want to say Perkins is hurt and all of that dirty stuff
be our guest
This team have enough bodies to wait half a season and become champs
after that.
And hes the only legit injury concern in this team




Soon to come part 2.
Roster...Coach  and LOTS OF SCROLLING!!!!!!


P.S.  IF YOU HAVENT NOTICE WE HAVE 5 CELTICS IN OUR TEAM

DARE ANYONE TO HATE THAT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

[Roy H.]

Edgar, I've got to say:  you've got one of the uglier teams in the NBA.  Maybe it's the giant heads.

[Edgar]

Edgar, I've got to say:  you've got one of the uglier teams in the NBA.  Maybe it's the giant heads.

Thats why I took rasho out...lol

 

[jgod213]

Question for the Toronto AngryCrotorPickels:


Edgar, even though you'll be out Perk for a large chunk of the season, the rest of your starters are capable of masking the dropoff to Joel Anthony.  However, David Lee is a chucker, Jameer Nelson is a shoot-first point guard, and Ray/Paul also demand their share of looks - how does the shot distribution work on this team?  Are Lee/Nelson ready to sacrafice stats the way that paul/kg/and ray did in beantown?

Also, considering the above, does it concern you that you don't have a "pure" or "pass-first" point guard on your roster?

[Fafnir]

Question for the Toronto AngryCrotorPickels:


Edgar, even though you'll be out Perk for a large chunk of the season, the rest of your starters are capable of masking the dropoff to Joel Anthony.  However, David Lee is a chucker, Jameer Nelson is a shoot-first point guard, and Ray/Paul also demand their share of looks - how does the shot distribution work on this team?  Are Lee/Nelson ready to sacrafice stats the way that paul/kg/and ray did in beantown?

Also, considering the above, does it concern you that you don't have a "pure" or "pass-first" point guard on your roster?

Since when is David Lee a chucker?

His career usage is 18.4, his last three years have been 15.6, 19.2, and 23.8.

That's an upward trend, but it also coincided with him becoming more focal to the offense of the Knicks. I wouldn't categorize him as a chucker by any means.

[Edgar]

Question for the Toronto AngryCrotorPickels:


Edgar, even though you'll be out Perk for a large chunk of the season, the rest of your starters are capable of masking the dropoff to Joel Anthony.  However, David Lee is a chucker, Jameer Nelson is a shoot-first point guard, and Ray/Paul also demand their share of looks - how does the shot distribution work on this team?  Are Lee/Nelson ready to sacrafice stats the way that paul/kg/and ray did in beantown?

Also, considering the above, does it concern you that you don't have a "pure" or "pass-first" point guard on your roster?

Averaging almost 5 asist a game in a team where Dwight use to ask for the ball and ruin the stat and rely on heavy 3 pt shooting. i will call Jameer a pure PG.

Of couse Lee who isnt a chucker in any means, will drop his share of look, he started his carrer at NY being superstar Eddie Curry being his trash collector, Noah and Varejao style, he just proves he can be better than those guys offensively.

Paul and ray will ask a little less the ball, because Jammer covers what Rondo doesnt, mid range jumper.

I think this team covers every other player deficiences, and make up for what they lose in Rondo and KG if you talk about championship caliber celtics.

[nickagneta]

Okay, Toronto, it's pretty obvious you took the philosophy that drafting deep in the draft you didn't think you could put together a true contending team so your philosophy became "Let's get as many Celtics on the team as possible and try to hide the severe limitations of the team behind the loyalty the voters would have towards voting for a team with a lot of Celtics, whether that team was really very good or not".

Your starting center won't be playing until February at the earliest and if he follows a path similar to Leon Powe(which given the timing and types of injuries both had is not out of the question), he might not be a factor at all next year. That leaves you playing 34 year old Brad Miller huge minutes with your only viable big man to spell both Lee and Miller being Joel Anthony. Yes that would be the same Joel Anthony that averaged a whole 3 PPG and 3 RPG last year.

Then the rest of your bench, that will be needed to spell 33 year old Paul Pierce and 35 year old Ray Allen(2 players that got severely burned out two years ago when they were overplayed and 2 years younger) are Delonte, who can't play for the first 10 games of the year, Pondexter, a rookie I like but think shouldn't be anywhere near an 8 or 9 man rotation, Wayne Ellington, who was awful last year, and Ime Udoka, another 3 PPG, 3 RPG limited player.

I think what makes the real Celtics tick is Rondo, Garnett's defense and Perk's inside presence. Your team has a pretty steep step back from Rondo to Nelson, a PF that is a bad defender at best and no inside presence other than a 34 year old Miller who just won't be able to give you quality starters minutes for the whole year.

This Toronto team is not the Celtics and has no depth, a player that can't play because he's in Europe, another that can't play for ten games because he had a transgression, another player that can't play because he's injured and might not make it back and old starters who will have to log huge minutes for the team to be successful.

I see a 2nd or 3rd place Atlantic finish and no playoffs for the AngryCrotorPickles.

[Edgar]

Okay, Toronto, it's pretty obvious you took the philosophy that drafting deep in the draft you didn't think you could put together a true contending team so your philosophy became "Let's get as many Celtics on the team as possible and try to hide the severe limitations of the team behind the loyalty the voters would have towards voting for a team with a lot of Celtics, whether that team was really very good or not".

Well celtics team is very good ask 2008, 2009 and 2010.


Your starting center won't be playing until February at the earliest and if he follows a path similar to Leon Powe(which given the timing and types of injuries both had is not out of the question), he might not be a factor at all next year. That leaves you playing 34 year old Brad Miller huge minutes with your only viable big man to spell both Lee and Miller being Joel Anthony. Yes
that would be the same Joel Anthony that averaged a whole 3 PPG and 3 RPG last year.


I remember Joel Anthony is a Starting Center tooand Brad Miller is great at playoffs I will get a rookie or a NBDL dont worry, kandy is still available and Moore


Then the rest of your bench, that will be needed to spell 33 year old Paul Pierce and 35 year old Ray Allen(2 players that got severely burned out two years ago when they were overplayed and 2 years younger) are Delonte, who can't play for the first 10 games of the year, Pondexter, a rookie I like but think shouldn't be anywhere near an 8 or 9 man rotation, Wayne Ellington, who was awful last year, and Ime Udoka, another 3 PPG, 3 RPG limited player.


the same players who makes you reach finals just 3 month ago you say
and about Pondexter I think this is your quote nick

Quote from: nickagneta on August 26, 2010, 09:06:03 am
Quote from: Who on August 26, 2010, 09:02:39 am
Pick #7 Round 12 -- the Golden State Warriors select Quincy Pondexter

The Warriors have a trade agreed with Toronto pending league's approval.

TP Who. You took my 2 favorite SFs from this year's draft class. Both should be NBA ready players and able to contribute

back at your very own words nick, this makes all of your other claims not very faithfull to me... sorry


I am absolutely happy with a 11 man rotation in a 13 players draft

sadly i dont think an argument against Paul pierce and Ray allen will go anywhere in this blog
not to mention Larry bird
but yes..do your best.


ANGRYCROTORPICKELS ROCKS!!!!

[StartOrien]

Storms a brewin...

[StartOrien]

Question for Toronto

How many minutes do you expect out of Brad Miller per night during the period of time that Perk is out for?

[Who]

Question for Toronto

How many minutes do you expect out of Brad Miller per night during the period of time that Perk is out for?

I think Toronto should start Joel Anthony while Perkins is out. He is the better defender and that is what the rest of the starting lineup needs the most out of that position. Leave Brad Miller on the bench to play against backup big men (where his defense will be less hurtful).

Go with Joel Anthony for 28mpg and Brad Miller for 24mpg. Have David Lee play 36mpg as the starting PF and then 10 more minutes to be given to another big man.

Not sure if the roster has another big with Rasho in Europe. If not, play Quincy Pondexter as a four in the second unit for 8mpg. On nights where you need a little more muscle, bench Pondexter and extend Brad Miller's minutes.

[Who]

Trading Corey Maggette away because I like that fact that he was a scoring machine. I think an equally tough decision was taking Rondo when I did.

What was the Corey Maggette trade?

Maggette would have been very useful on this team as a sixth man.

[riah32]

Trading Corey Maggette away because I like that fact that he was a scoring machine. I think an equally tough decision was taking Rondo when I did.

What was the Corey Maggette trade?

Maggette would have been very useful on this team as a sixth man.

Maggette was traded to get Carl Landry to make up for my goof of a pick and drafted Al Harrington.

[StartOrien]

Question for Boston

How many minutes could we realistically expect out of an "offensive team" that includes Rondo, JR Smith/Rush, Kapono? Rondo's a pretty good defensive player, though he gambles a lot, and that might be harder to hide when JR Smith and Jason Kapono are inovlved in a defense.

Can you really outscore teams w/ that lineup?

[Roy H.]

. . . Wayne Ellington, who was awful last year

How was Ellington "awful"?  He was an elite 3PT shooter, he was a good defender, and he showed excellent fundamentals and instincts.  His Per-36 numbers are all about average for a SG.

I'm guessing you didn't watch Ellington play much last year*.  He was one of the pleasant surprises of the draft, putting up pretty good production for the 28th overall pick.

* (although, frankly, the harshness of your tone aimed against Edgar suggests that your analysis may be personal, rather than objective.  I mean, your entire critique of Edgar's team was one giant attack, starting with "Okay, Toronto, it's pretty obvious you took the philosophy that drafting deep in the draft you didn't think you could put together a true contending team . . ."  I don't think it's exactly fair to put words in Edgar's mouth.)