RE: This is the mentality of Celtics fans

[Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com>]

First:  LA WILL NOT GIVE US LORENZEN WRIGHT!  

Second:  Samaki does have one or two 20+ rebound games
to his credit, if I'm not mistaken.

yrs


--- John Lyell <Jlyell@concentric.net> wrote:
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> Did he ever put up the 18 & 20 + board games
> Lorenzen Wright has ?  If we 
> are going to give Mercer away I would prefer Wright
> unless the salary 
> differences are that major.
> 
> I am still waiting for Pitono to acquire a real
> player, not a role player. 
> Popeye for Walker makes more sense to me. And
> packaging anderson, Mercer & 
> anyone except AW and Pierce for a star.  I would
> think Anderson,  Mercer & 
> Barros or battie or next years #1 would be better
> than what some teams are 
> offering.
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> On Friday, July 30, 1999 6:01 AM,
> clittlefield@lycos.com 
> [SMTP:clittlefield@lycos.com] wrote:
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> > You forget that Samaki played 43 and 41 games in
> his first two 82 game 
> seasons,
> > and 39 last year.  Not exactly reliable...
> >
> > I agree that he did have a pretty good tear of
> strong games in his second
> > season, but Mercer's performance over his first
> two seasons is head and
> > shoulders above Walker's.  Do you really want to
> give up that much for so
> > little?
> >
> > Chris
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> > Alex Wang <awang@mit.edu> on 07/29/99 07:47:17 PM
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> >  To:      "Joshua Ozersky" <jozersky@stny.rr.com>,
> >           celtics@igtc.com
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> >  cc:      (bcc: Chris Littlefield/Lycos)
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> >  Subject: Re: This is the mentality of Celtics
> fans
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> > 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
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> > > Josh Ozersky
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> >  << File: att1.eml >>
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