RE: Number of players on roster

[John Lyell <Jlyell@concentric.net>]

Why Pitino,  with no consistent outside scoring threat,  did not go after 
Sheppard who Atlanta is supposedly happy with, instead of Garnett perplexes 
me.  If you look at some of the second team backcourts in the league 
(especially Indiana) I think several players could start on the Celtics. 
 We still need some veteran leadership like a Kevin Johnson bad, and 
Anderson has not shown it.

We could have signed Sheppard, why we did not I don't know.  Atlanta is not 
going to take our trash.

We are set at the 3 & 4 spots time, with virtually no consistent outside 
scoring threat in the backcourt it could be a tough season.

We don't need both Popeye Jones & Battie,  one is expendable. I like Battie 
he just needs to beef up & get some more playing time. The Lakers need a 
rebounding 4, and with Fox & Horry & Jones they are deep at the 3, could we 
swap the Jones boys Popeye for Eddie ? Eddie can play the 2 & 3 spots.

I would also look to move Anderson and Barros for a bigger backcourt pla  
yer.  We are going to be killed by the big backcourt players.  I am not 
sure we have really progressed from the Wesley & Barros/Brown days where we 
had trouble due to their height.


On Sunday, February 07, 1999 2:57 PM, Dana Haven [SMTP:dhaven@ime.net] 
wrote:
> Is a team able to have 12 or 14 active players on a roster?
>
> Battie, Walker, Pierce, Mercer, Anderson, Riley, Jones, McCarty, Minor, 
Barros,
> Deqlerq, Schinznitch, Bowen, & Garnett.
>
> If it is only 12, how about this for a trade: Trade Schintzius, Minor &
> Garnett to Atlanta for Jeff Sheppard and one of Atlanta's first round 
draft
> picks (own, Sacramento's, Detroits or Portlands)?
>
>