RE: Former Celtic Montross (and Stackhouse)

[John Lyell <Jlyell@concentric.net>]

Take a look at this Michael Stewart kid in Sacramento.  He got his first 
start last night and got 15 boards.  If Sacramento knows they won't be able 
to resign him I don't know if there is a way to trade for a guy and extend 
his contract.  He & Mashburn would be excellent.  I would give up anyone 
except Billups Mercer Bowen & Walker. All the others are expendable at the 
right price.  Corliss Williamson has been playing well also.




-----Original Message-----
From:	Shailendra K. Mishra [SMTP:skmishra@dlsun660.us.oracle.com]
Sent:	Thursday, December 18, 1997 2:47 PM
To:	skmishra@dlsun660.us.oracle.com; nocw1@nsh.library.ns.ca
Cc:	celtics@igtc.COM; leew@wadsworth.org
Subject:	Re: Former Celtic Montross (and Stackhouse)

> 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