greenmachine_2849 wrote:celtxman wrote:That article seems a little too convenient for Wallace. Before you know it, we'll read that Gaston ordered the drafting of Moiso because his wife is part French. Drafting Kedrick Brown instead of waiting for Stoudemire? An official from another team? So the good moves were a combination of bailing his two owners out and skill and the bad ones ordered by the owners. I'll still go with he was terrible for the Celtics
And that is certainly your prerogative to do so. Frankly, I don't have strong enough opinions one way or the other on Chris Wallace to argue much more on the subject. At the end, though, I will go with my original conclusion that he was an average general manager whose team looked quite a bit worse than average due to a horrible owner. I mean, the Celtics were a couple of Pierce free throws away from going up 3-1 in the ECF and probably going back to the NBA Finals for the first time in 15 years, and Gaston couldn't throw a couple of extra million Rodney Rogers' way to bring the team back for a second try? Gaston can join John Y. Brown, Mark Blount, and a handful of others in Boston Celtic hell, as far as I am concerned.
No love for Gaston from me either. Don't foget the bogus foul call given to Lucious Harris when he ran into Tony Battie in that same game. It's just way too much of a stretch to say Wallace traded Joe Johnson (because he had to for salary reasons down the road) to then get Tony Delk and Rodney Rogers to help them on that ECF run, but then he found out he couldn't keep them and had to get Baker. You know what I mean? It reminds me of Jack Bauer on 24. Jack's always doing the right stuff behind the scenes and the darned government is screwing up, so he's gotta keep fixing things. It seems more like a TV show than reality.