Re: IT'S (never) TOO EARLY (for Ricky)!!!!!!!!!!!

["Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.andara.com>]

I'd prefer to deal Kenny before the other three.

Cecil

-----Original Message-----
From: damekmo@teleport.com <damekmo@teleport.com>
To: celtics@igtc.com <celtics@igtc.com>
Date: Sunday, February 21, 1999 1:40 PM
Subject: IT'S (never) TOO EARLY (for Ricky)!!!!!!!!!!!


>>Please do not make a trade and we are still mediocre.  One never trades a
>>stud to make the other team better unless we become better also.  We were
>>not going to content for the championship this season anyway.  I say ride
>>the season out with the current team and then consider trades, free
>>agents, and the draft.  Unless we can make a steal of a trade, please do
>>not do anything stupid to make the team worse!!!!!!!
>>
>>
>>Greg
>>gh18@juno.com
>
>These are difficult, but very entertaining times. A thousand thoughts and
>moves race through the mind. The kids were gone all day yesterday so I
>spent hours cycling, thinking about this team, and coughing up phlegm.
>Here's the problem that Pitino has: Mercer, Walker, Pierce and Anderson(?)
>are the only assets on this team anybody wants. Well....they're the only
>assets anybody will want if they have to give up something that will
>actually help the Celtics get over "the hump." Now, I could be the one
>who's getting impatient, after preaching patience for weeks, but we all
>thought adding a good point and a scoring small forward would get this team
>into the playoffs. Well...the team apparently got both and.....500 at best.
>This team has, and continues to have a fatal flaw, and I mean "fatal" flaw
>and everybody Pitino's about to call knows it. (I'm going to ignore the
>possibility that Pitino is the fatal flaw, for now.) Pitino keeps tinkering
>with these idiotic projects and it's embarrassing. Every time we hear the
>words "project" or "weight room " cross Pitino's lips we should all think
>the words "failure" and ".500 at best." When Pitino starts making those
>phone calls you can bet the GM he's talking to is thinking "desperate."
>Now...I could be totally wrong about this but I just think we, on this
>list, think way too much of Barros. I think if Pitino could've moved Barros
>and the Number One for some serious frontcourt / rebounding help he
>would've done it. Barros is a backup point at best and people aren't
>jumping up and down to get him. He's not going to help a team with enough
>talent to spare get to the next level. A draft pick is always "iffy."
>Barros and Popeye, who I still think was a mediocre player "before" his
>injury, and the Number One? Look, I think if Pitino wants to actually
>upgrade this team, and not tinker around the edges, he's going to have to
>give up either Walker, Pierce, Mercer or Anderson. If it's me Pitino calls,
>and I have a player with enough talent to help him, I let him stew in
>desperation if he doesn't offer me one of those players. After looking at
>this team...it's Mercer. I agree with "Mister Ghost" that Pitino is looking
>for a home run here, and if he has to, and I think he does, give up one of
>his "core" assets, we're in for a three-way deal including Mercer, and the
>team's Number One or perhaps another player for some actual
>honest-to-goodness real legitimate NBA talent.  Pitino's had it with
>getting killed on the boards. I think he keeps Walker, Pierce and Anderson.
>I still believe Anderson is an asset with some inside help and a two who
>can hit a three (Otherwise Anderson's the only "outside" threat in the
>backcourt and with Pitino as his coach, he's gunning. Nobody wants to see
>that every night.) I think we're in for something big soon. But
>then...perhaps I'm just in a mood for a little more "list entertainment."
>
>Paul M.
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