Re: Trade Suggestions

["Greg Odegaard" <gmodegaa@longvred.rmc.com>]

Not to be overly critical, but there are many facts that need to be cleared
up on this faux trade with Phoenix and Chapman.  

As has been already noted, Chapman was at Kentucky before Pitino came to
UK.  

Maybe someone can correct me, but could we ever make a trade with all these
heavy contracts for a single player with a league minimum deal?  It is
often noted on trade ideas here, that "the deal can't work because the
salaries +/- 15% don't match".  This is why Montross was apparently thrown
into the Stackhouse trade.

Lastly it has been noted many times, that Chapman remained at Phoenix this
year, he could have made 2MM+ after last years strong performance, as a FA,
but stayed for the minimum, to get the BIG deal with the LB rules after
this season.  Now maybe the Suns would trade him for some unknown reason,
but if he is there after the season, he isn't going anywhere, because of
his impending BIG deal.  He would only have to start over somewhere else.

BTW, tonights game, what with playing Duncan's team, brings the post X-Mas
reality trip smack into our faces. We enjoyed the +.500 record for the
holidays.  I predict 6 wins out of the 19 games through the end of January
(I feel I likely am being very generous in this regard).  Any other guesses
for the next five weeks?

Ho Ho Ho!
Greg
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> From: NAME REDACTED <NAME REDACTED>
> To: Celtics@igtc.COM
> Subject: Trade Suggestions
> Date: Thursday, December 25, 1997 6:08 PM
> 
> As many of you have probably noticed, we have a logjam at the shooting
> guard position. We have Dee Brown, a way-overpaid, basically no-position
> player (too small to play shooting guard and lacking a consistent shot
and
> also lacking the playmaking/passing skills to play the point), Greg
Minor,
> an
> incredibly inconsistent mediocre player who will only settle for the
> short-range jumper (which comes and goes), plays suspect defense, and is
> trash at the free-throw line. He is also way-overpaid for a 12th man.
> Then we have Bruce Bowen, who is good, but doesn't help us much
> offensively. He's more of a defense/hustle/rebounding guard. This is a
> good thing, but we can get better.
> 
> I propose that we package Dee Brown, Greg Minor, and Bruce Bowen to the
> Phoenix Suns in exchange for a real shooting guard, Rex Chapman. Rex
> Chapman is a three-point sniper, who explodes in the playoffs and also
> provides offensive firepower during the season. He'd be an ideal backup
> for Mercer, since he comes cheap (league minimum in Phoenix) and he knows
> Rick's system (he went to Kentucky) and thrives in Rick's system. So
> instead of having 3 mediocre, overpaid shooting guards behind Mercer, why
> not have 1 decent one who won't hit us too hard in the pocketbook so we
> can use the money to re-sign Walker. Chapman would really help us a lot
> and I think that Pitino would maximize his potential to its fullest. The
> only problem with this trade is that salary cap. Obviously, you can't
just
> trade one player making the league minimum for 3 players with large
> contracts. Maybe Phoenix could throw in John "Hot Rod" Williams to
balance
> it out... You guys on this newsgroup have pretty good ideas, so think
> about this one and see if anything'd work.
> 
> Trade 2
> 
> We also have a logjam at power forward. Arguably, all of our
> so-calledcenters
>  are really power forwards, and so we might as well clear the
> logjam here as well. I propose that we package Andrew DeClercq, Roy
> Rogers, and the rights to Ben Pepper to the New Jersey Nets in exchange
> for Jayson Williams. Roy Rogers' knees are too much of a risk, and he's
> not that good to begin with (shot-blocking is the only skill he can hang
> his hat on, while defense and rebounding aren't exactly outstanding).
> DeClercq is cool, but he can play center it's a nicer deal for the Nets.
> They'd be giving up their starting center, Williams (who is really a
power
> forward), and we'd be giving them DeClercq, a young, rebounding
> center-power forward, Roy Rogers, another power forward, and the rights
to
> Ben Pepper, another center. They can keep their eye on him and if he ever
> develops in Australia they can bring him over and use him at center.
> Pitino and I both like Williams because of his tenacious rebounding,
> rebounding, and rebounding, and he would make a dangerous backup wither
> behind Walker or Knight. He is starting now at center for the Nets, so
> who's to say he couldn't be a backup for us. Also, Jayson is unhappy in
> Jersey and has been feuding with Calipari. Instead of having 2 mediocre
> power forwards, why not just have one decent one who leads the league in
> rebounds (or at least pretty damn close). I think he and Rodman are
> battling over the title constantly. Anyways Williams has the physical
> tools to thrive in our system. Defense and rebounding win champsionships,
> as they say, so why not use them as a boost to maybe grab us the 8th
> playoff spot.....
>