Re: Uh oh, now Paul is going to testy!

[William Lee <leew@wadsworth.org>]

Consistency is good.  Why would he lambast RP for not getting Stewart while
lauding his 2 blocks and Raptored rebounding while, in near the same sentence
blast RP for signing Dwayne and forget to mention that he led the Celts in the
same game (with more Rebounds than Stewart)?

Bill

At 12:37 PM 1/27/99 -0800, Ode wrote:
>This list of so called mistakes in the shortened acquisition has a most
>interesting item at the top.  Food for thought or fodder for the grist mill;
>you decide.
>
>Ode
>Bad Moves 
> <<...>> January 27, 1999, MattnSteve <mailto:mattnSteve@onhoops.com>. 
>       Chuck's Note: 
>We know it's been frantic, but just because everybody else is making free
>agent moves and the transaction wire is zinging in your ears, it doesn't
>mean you have to pull the trigger without thinking. ...
>Pitino or ML Carr?
>When Rick Pitino let Travis Knight jump back to the Lakers, he effectively
>confirmed all those rumors which had him eyeing up shot-blocking sensation
>Michael Stewart from the Kings. But instead, Pitino spent his last remaining
>cap space on a 3 year deal for tubby rebounder Popeye Jones, leaving him
>only the $1 mill exemption available for Stewart. Did he take it? No, he
>went to Toronto, where nobody ever goes out of choice, which shows you just
>how much Pitino under-estimated things. In tonight's game against the
>Celtics, Stewart blocked 2 shots and lead the Raptors in rebounding - plus
>the C's play Toronto again in the exhibitions and open their season by
>hosting Toronto on Feb 5th. This could be a costly miss. So, desperately in
>need of a center, Boston had to go after, get this, Dwayne Schintzius
>instead. Along with Pervis Ellison, the undersized Jones and the underbulked
>Andrew Declercq, this has gotto be the dead worst pivot rotation we've seen
>in a long time. This is a team which could have Acie Earl as their starting
>center, and they'd actually be better!...