Re: More Fortson trade talk

[Shailendra Mishra <shailendra_mishra@yahoo.com>]

I am  terribly disappointed with this trade. Mercer had his
limitations, but he also had tremendous upside. I don't see the same
potential in the incumbents that we have got in return. With this trade
Pitino has proven to me he is clueless as far as the pro-game is
concerned. He is a poor evaluator of talent, he plays favourites and
has ruined this team. Mercer may have been asking more money but if
Pitino had not given that stupid contract to McCarty that money would
have been there to sign Mercer.

Just imagine with the 3rd and 6th pick in 1997 draft we have got
Anderson, Fortson and 1st round pick. I am not counting Eric Williams
because he was already there. I hated the Billups trade and I hate this
one and I am convinced we were much better with M.L.Carr at the
helm..Pitino is a joke. - Mishra

--- CeltsSteve <celtssteve@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Pitino is very familiar with Eric Washington, having
> coached against him
> while he was palying for Alabama. He's starting to
> come into his own and
> you're right: he is a 3-point shooter; much better
> than Mercer.
> 
> What would be interesting to see is how Eric
> Williams would fit into
> rotation.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alex Wang <awang@mit.edu>
> To: <celtics@igtc.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 12:51 AM
> Subject: More Fortson trade talk
> 
> 
> 
> 
> <<Eric Washington is entering the second year of his
> two year, $1.1M
> contract. He's 6'4" and 190 lbs but listed as a
> forward on NBA.com. 20.0
> mpg, 5.4 ppg (39.7% fg, 38.1% 3fg), 2.3 rpg, 0.8
> apg. I think he's a three
> point specialist shooting guard. Probably he's there
> just to make the
> salaries work out although Pitino would probably say
> lots of nice things
> about him at the press conference.>>
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 

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