RE: Trade Suggestions

[John Lyell <Jlyell@concentric.net>]

I believe Rex played with Eddie Sutton at Kentucky.  He was neighbors with 
Pitino though.  If I were Phoenix I sure as hell would not take 2 slugs & 
Bowen for Chapman.  The trade could be made either because Minor, Brown & 
Bowen make about $7M a year, and unless you are under the cap salaries have 
to be within 15% I believe.


Williams is a free agent next year so we could lose him for nothing, but I 
wouldn't mind that move, but doubt it would happen unless Jersey knows they 
will not resign him.   Is till think Phoenix is a big man away from being a 
real contender and Declercq or Rogers could help.  I would love to get say 
Nash & Bryant or Williams(salary swap) for Declercq & Edney, Brown or even 
Barros.







-----Original Message-----
From:	NAME REDACTED [SMTP:NAME REDACTED]
Sent:	Thursday, December 25, 1997 6:08 PM
To:	Celtics@igtc.COM
Subject:	Trade Suggestions

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.....