Williams

[peter delevett <pdelevett@amcity.com>]

What the hell are you talking about? An out of shape tweener? The bottom of
our depth chart? All Williams did was make the All Rookie team, average 15 ppg
the next year and start lighting it up for nearly 20 a game after he went to
Denver. From all reports, he's going to bust out this year. Pitino made this
trade, pure and simple, to show who's boss; the fact that he ended up using
Williams' money to sign Mills, then traded Mills for McCarty, doesn't say a
whole lot to me about Rick's acumen (in this instance, at least). I would much
rather have Williams on a team than Walter. The only thing that makes this
more palatable is that by a stroke of luck, we were able to draft PP.

mbyrnes@stanford.edu wrote:

Trading Eric Williams was not really stupid.  Williams was an out of shape
tweener.  To small to be the power forward, not good enough to be a small
forward.  Perhaps Pitino could have gotten more for Williams, but I'm not
all that broken up about losing a player who would be at the bottom of our
depth chart anyway.  I would much rather have had Rick Fox back, but even
he wouldn't be getting a lot of mintues with Pierce, Mercer and Walker
around.

Signing Chris Mills from the "slow it down Cavs" was stupid.  But, again
Pitino turned lead to gold by trading Mills for McCarty, and the useless
Dontae' Jones.  All we got was a role player out of the deal, but we
are stuck with the last year of Dontae's contract instead of 6 years of
Mills' contract.