La gran temporada Celtics is going to go off without our buddy ESTEBAN!
The Boston Celtics waived center Esteban Batista on Tuesday as they trimmed their training camp roster to 16.
Batista signed as a free agent last month and appearaed in one preseason game, scoring seven points with five rebounds.
Well… I’m Sorprendido (I hope these google translations are accurate. I don’t want to be coming out of the closet when I’m trying to express I’m surprised at this decsion… that’s for another time.). As Scott Souza explains… The C’s are completely lacking size.
But then Steve Bulpett makes this little mention in the Herald blog entry reporting the Batista move:
From all indications, Jackie Manuel and Dahntay Jones remain the most likely to go, barring any other moves (read: trades) the club could make
Trades? It might have been just an off-hand comment… but one has to wonder what the C’s are going to do to add some size to the roster. Maybe they’ll just go with Pollard, Powe and Davis. If that’s the case, Perk had better learn to exercise some discipline against bigger players.
One more note from Souza’s piece… this regarding Tony Allen:
Tony Allen has been deemed doubtful for tomorrow’s exhibition game against the Knicks at the Garden after being poked in the eye during Monday’s practice. He did not participate in today’s workout.
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Guess I was wrong………………… Doc and Danny are Stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just like last year dumb cuts
Doesn’t seem to make sense to me either…. but then again… I’m not seeing what they see in practice.
Just because someone dominates a FIBA tourney… doesn’t mean they’ll do well in the NBA. He’ll latch on with someone else… so we’ll see if we made a mistake or not.
Any chance to get that great picture on the redsarmy site is ok by me.
Look at Batista’s stats from last season and you’ll understand why he was cut. I’m not worried about the lack of height…