Eric Williams, Linton Johnson working out for Celts

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    Bring Back Eric Williams !</p>
     
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    I loved Eric Williams.</p>

    Does he have anything left in the tank?</p>
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ly_yng)</div><div class='quotemain'></p>

    I loved Eric Williams.</p>

    Does he have anything left in the tank?</p>

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    If he does, it sure doesn't look like it.</p>
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ToddMacCulloch11)</div><div class='quotemain'></p>

    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ly_yng)</div><div class='quotemain'></p>

    I loved Eric Williams.</p>

    Does he have anything left in the tank?</p>

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    If he does, it sure doesn't look like it.</p>

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    actually, on a per-minute basis, he was pretty good last year, for whatever that's worth.</p>
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ToddMacCulloch11)</div><div class='quotemain'></p>

    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ly_yng)</div><div class='quotemain'></p>

    I loved Eric Williams.</p>

    Does he have anything left in the tank?</p>

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    If he does, it sure doesn't look like it.</p>

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    He's 35 years old. He played for three very different coaches in Toronto, San Antonio and Charlotte and none of them wanted to play him. The Spurs traded him in a salary dump...thats how much they thought he could help them.</p>

    His defense even with the Nets had dropped off. He averaged 4 PF per game in the 21 games he played for the Nets. That should tell you something about him getting beaten to the basket.</p>

    He is a gentleman, a great man of the community, but it's likely over for him, at least in the NBA.</p>

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    I love Eric Williams but he's done.</p>

    Linton Johnson I remember two years ago somebody in the media said he could be MIP. But so far he hasn't done too much.</p>
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Real)</div><div class='quotemain'></p>

    I love Eric Williams but he's done.</p>

    Linton Johnson I remember two years ago somebody in the media said he could be MIP. But so far he hasn't done too much.</p>

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    i still wonder what he could do if he was given a really big chance. it looked like he could be really good with his first season in chicago. he's such a disappointment.</p>
     
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    He got about 20 mpg in his first year in TO but he was kinda useless after that.</p>
     
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    Eric Williams was pretty big for us, when Martin was gone, and Kidd was injured. I grew to like him, but now I don't see a point at even glancing at him.</p>

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    As for Linton Johnson, it shouldn't even be recorded that he was with the Nets.</p>
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Kidd)</div><div class='quotemain'></p>

    Eric Williams was pretty big for us, when Martin was gone, and Kidd was injured. I grew to like him, but now I don't see a point at even glancing at him.</p>

    As for Linton Johnson, it shouldn't even be recorded that he was with the Nets.</p>

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    he didn't really do much for me. all i saw with eric williams was a guy who would eat up playing time, since there was pretty much no one else to play.</p>

    what i'd like to know is what happened to the other Eric Williams, the young big man.</p>

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ToddMacCulloch11)</div><div class='quotemain'></p>

    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (peg182)</div><div class='quotemain'></p>


    what i'd like to know is what happened to the other Eric Williams, the young big man.</p>

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Williams_%28Basketball%29</p>

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    USBL? what is that?</p>
     
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    Jumaine Jones is a better choice than Eric Williams. Linton Johnson is interesting though.</p>

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    Linton Johnson was interesting, but I'd say the best impact he had on the Nets is when he POOF turned himself into Boki Nachbar</p>
     
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    He just didn't get the playing time. I remember he played quite well in New Orleans after the trade while Nachbar did a BRobon the bench. Of course, it'sobvious now that Nachbar is the better player.But it wouldn't surprise me if Linton Johnson show in a couple of yearsthe stuff that made the managements of New Jersey and San Antonio interested in him.</p>
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Kidd)</div><div class='quotemain'></p>

    Eric Williams was pretty big for us, when Martin was gone, and Kidd was injured. I grew to like him, but now I don't see a point at even glancing at him.</p>

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    As for Linton Johnson, it shouldn't even be recorded that he was with the Nets.</p>

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    No he wasn't. He played decently for a terrible team. That's all. People treat him like he was a great, long time Nets fixture. He played 21 games with the team.</p>

    And the Celtics have passed on Williams and Johnson, signing Dahntay Jones and Estaban Batista instead.</p>

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    Celtics are adding those players that can quite possibly give them the depth they need to add around their Big 3. Batista is a very good banger, dirty work, blue collar guy whom you love if he's on our side and hate if he's on the other. This should be a better pickup than the Pollard signing.</p>
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Kidd Karma)</div><div class='quotemain'></p>

    Celtics are adding those players that can quite possibly give them the depth they need to add around their Big 3. Batista is a very good banger, dirty work, blue collar guy whom you love if he's on our side and hate if he's on the other. This should be a better pickup than the Pollard signing.</p>

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    The Pollard signing still confuses me. These past 2 signings make much more sense, hell, i'd love to have either on the Nets, if there was any room.</p>
     

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