Re: This is the mentality of Celtics fans

[Alex Wang <awang@mit.edu>]

The reason why fans always rip GMs so much for not making trades 
is because they have no clue what is realistically available.
I'd rather send Mercer to San Antonio for three first rounders
and Tim Duncan but that's completely irrelevant.

Another point - Samaki Walker's second year stats compare favorably
with Tony Battie's second year stats (except shotblocking). They both 
also played on teams with identical 19-31 records. 

T Battie: 22.4 mpg, 6.7 ppg (51.9% fg), 6.0 rpg, 1.42 bpg 
S Walker: 25.0 mpg, 8.9 ppg (48.6% fg), 7.4 rpg, 0.98 bpg

Admittedly Samaki regressed in his third year but that's the reason
that he's available, and probably he can be signed up long-term for 
relatively cheap. But many people feel that Battie has great potential
beyond what his stats would indicate; perhaps Samaki is a similar type
of player.

With more minutes, he might be a 12 ppg, 10 rpg, 1.5 bpg performer
which in my mind is easily worth giving up Mercer for.

Alex
 
> from the newsgroup:
> 
> If we give up one of our top scorers for two players who SUCK and a =
> draft
> pick,  how does that bring the C's any closer to the playoffs next =
> season?
> Pitino will be run out of town if they don't make the playoffs as he
> promised,  so I seriously doubt the Dallas trade would happen.
> I'd rather send Mercer to Denver for Fortson and a 1st round pick.
> 
> 1 Anderson
> 2 Pierce
> 3 Walker
> 4 Fortson
> 5 Potapenko
> 
> 
> 
> Josh Ozersky
>