That 94-95 team seems very similar to this years team. No superstars but a lot of good talent. I forgot how deep their frontcourt was..Wesley, Fox, Xman, Minor was not that bad of a bench. Montross had such a good first year too...too bad he never panned out.
http://www.celticstats.com/season/9495.php
PTS ?
COLUMNS:SWIPE
Player GP MIN PTS REB AST STL BLK TOV
Dominique Wilkins 77 31.5 17.8 5.2 2.2 0.8 0.2 2.2
Dee Brown 79 35.3 15.6 3.2 3.8 1.4 0.6 1.8
Dino Radja 66 32.5 17.2 8.7 1.7 0.9 1.3 2.4
Sherman Douglas 65 31.5 14.7 2.6 6.9 1.2 0.0 2.5
Eric Montross 78 29.7 10.0 7.3 0.5 0.4 0.8 1.4
Xavier McDaniel 68 21.0 8.6 4.4 1.6 0.4 0.3 1.3
Rick Fox 53 19.6 8.8 2.9 2.6 1.0 0.4 1.5
Derek Strong 70 19.2 6.3 5.4 0.6 0.3 0.2 1.1
David Wesley 51 27.1 7.4 2.3 5.2 1.6 0.2 1.7
Greg Minor 63 15.0 6.0 2.2 1.0 0.5 0.3 0.7
Pervis Ellison 55 19.7 6.8 5.6 0.6 0.4 1.0 1.4
Blue Edwards 31 16.4 7.1 2.1 1.5 0.6 0.3 1.3
Acie Earl 30 6.9 2.2 1.5 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.5
James Blackwell 9 6.8 1.6 0.9 0.7 0.3 0.0 0.3
Tony Harris 3 6.0 4.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3
Jay Humphries 6 8.7 1.7 0.5 1.7 0.3 0.0 0.8
Tony Dawson 2 6.5 4.0 1.5 0.5 0.0 0.0 1.0
I like the comparison to those mid-90s teams because it was a collection of guys who clearly were not the "answer," but there were some dudes who could score and give you an entertaining game (Dominique, Dino, Dee, and later Sherman Douglas, Dana Barros . . . lots of D names).
As for the age thing, it's an ad hominem that I've never really understood. I tend to assume when somebody is not very articulate or posts in an impulsive and excessively emotional way that they are on the younger side of 20. That doesn't mean their ideas lack merit, of course.
Personally, I've found that really young people have a tendency to be
more emotionally attached to player and
more optimistic despite the evidence available. My youngest brother certainly is.
Generally speaking, I think older, more informed fans tend to have more moderate opinions, if only because they have more knowledge and experience to draw on to make caveats to any extreme position. Of course, what seems like an extreme position is in the eye of the beholder.
The exception for me is my dad, who is in his late 50s and is a stereotypical pessimistic New England fan. He tends to play up the pessimism just to get a rise out of my brothers and I, though.
My point, I guess, is that the validity of an opinion, in my experience, has a lot more to do with how much time and effort you put into knowing the state of the game now and the history of the league in general, and a lot less to do with how old you are, or how long you happened to have been turning the games on in your living room while eating dinner or drinking a beer.
