Re: Former Celtic Montross (and Stackhouse)

[skmishra@dlsun660.us.oracle.com (Shailendra K. Mishra)]

> From nocw1@nsh.library.ns.ca Thu Dec 18 14:02:11 1997
> 
> Ratliff is a shotblocker who can help any team.  Hid expendability is 
> only due to the play of Brian Williams.  I'm still glad the C's didn't 
> trade for Stackhouse.  What kind of blockbuster are you waiting for?  
> Obviously you are throwing the patient approach out the window.

I never bought into the "patient approach", because teams that subscribed to it 
never went anywhere e.g. Milwaukee, Washington, Dallas, Sacramento etc. I belive 
that any time you have a chance to add a quality player you should take it. We 
have 15 players out of which clearly 4 are expendable because either we have 
better players in our starting rotation with similiar skills or RP doesn't care 
for their skills. Like Detroit, we could have traded Roy Rogers + <some guard or 
forward> + a restricted draft pick for Stack.

Now regarding trades, here are players who I would be interested in and  think 
can improve the team:

Golden State: Joe Smith  

Portland: Gary Trent 

Clippers: Loy Vaught <depending on his injury status>

Charlotte: Matt Geiger, Dell Curry

Cleveland: Vitally Potapenko

Wizards: Terry Davis

                                  - Mishra