RE: Good news for soaring celts/McDyess

[John Lyell <Jlyell@concentric.net>]

It may be outrageouus, but with the highly reported 3 way trade with Miami 
& Sacramento, RP does not think it is that outrageous, from reports if he 
did not have concerns with signing Austin, it mayhave already happened.

It is kind of funny with that Chris Mills , his very short stay and move 
for McCarty was enough time to tell he didn't fit, but for Billups it has 
not ?






-----Original Message-----
From:	Dorine Pratt [SMTP:norine@sover.net]
Sent:	Sunday, January 04, 1998 3:06 PM
To:	Mike Allen
Cc:	Celtics Mailing List
Subject:	Re: Good news for soaring celts/McDyess

I'm in total agreement with that.
Dorine

Mike Allen wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
>         It's been a while since I lasted posted and am feeling the need 
to.  This
> idea of trading Billups is outrageous, and to even have the notion of
> trading Mercer is just plain stupid.  We're talking about giving up two
> amazing young players who will definetly develop into all-stars, for 
what?
> Mashburn (who I like because of his Kentucky days) who is past his prime,
> injury prone and just not worth it, and Ike Austin who caught a big break
> by having 'Zo injured, and got to showcase himself.  I don't believe he 
can
> keep it up.  Let's just give these kids some more time to develop and 
learn
> the system better and before you know it, we'll be playoff bound and
> hopefully another banner will be raised.
>
>         As far as McDyess goes, he is not worth it!  He is plain and 
simple
> overrated and underacheiving.  Everyone was saying that it was because he
> was in Denver and wasn't happy, well now he's in Phoenix and he's still
> CRAP!  You'd think a guy playing for a contract would be making more 
noise
> and a bigger impact, I don't know about the rest of you but when I see 
Suns
> highlights on TV I see, Kidd, Nash, KJ, but no McDyess.  Leave him in the
> Desert, lets work with what we've got and be happy with it, quit with the
> quick fix and lets work for the future.  I don't remember who it was that
> said it on this list but they said that we should still try and improve,
> well sometimes, time is all you need.
>
> But that's just my opinon, anyone else?
>
> Mike