RE: Why did we spend the $ on a center?

[John Lyell <Jlyell@concentric.net>]

I agree.  I think Pitino's decision not to go after a veteran big $ FA like 
Sam Cassell and take some younger lower priced players has failed.  As 
stated, this team is in drastic need for some veteran leadership in some 
position,  the point would probably be the best.  It would have been nice 
to keep Fox at a decent price, he has been playing excelent for L.A.  We 
really need to lose some bodies and make a deal for  a Michael Williams, 
Terry Porter, Bimbo Coles, or even Pooh Richardson to get some veteran 
floor leadership. I believe this would open up the game for Travis & A.W. 
and at least let Billups learn from a veteran instead of trial & error. It 
really is the chicken or the egg, Billups can't get a lot of assist when 
few others can put it in the hoop, and others have trouble if the points 
can't break down defenses and make the passes for easy layups.


With the possibility of Phoenix not signing McDyess and pursuing Ike Austin 
how about a 3 way there ?

Here are some ideas

Nash & McDyess to Boston
Austin and Billups to Phoenix
Knight & Bowen to Miami

Or

Nash & McDyess to Boston
Billups & Knight to Phoenix

Or

Billups, Knight and Barros or Bowen to G.S
Smith, Coles and  Spencer to Boston

























-----Original Message-----
From:	Nault [SMTP:rnault@ptialaska.net]
Sent:	Sunday, January 11, 1998 2:11 PM
To:	celtics@igtc.COM
Subject:	Re: Why did we spend the $ on a center?

>Why did we spend so much on Travis if he can't give us more than 20 mins a
>>game, you'd think that Andrew was the big money guy. We've gone
>to a center-by-comittee offense like the bulls used to play but I don't
>think >they paid Longley 20 Mill a year.

I often wonder myself why the heck they are paying Travis Knight as much as
they are.  Seems to me if they really wanted a good center through free
agency they could have gotten Brian Williams, look at the kinda year he is
having in Detroit.  Personally though I wish they had drafted Kelvin Cato
as their sixth pick and Mercer as their third because frankly Billups is
not impressing me and he doesn't seem to be getting any better. I can
understand that he would not be good right of the bat, but by the all star
game I expect to have seen at least some improvement, which I haven't with
Billups.

Tim


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