RE: And why the Clippers

[John Lyell <Jlyell@concentric.net>]

If have to disagree with you if you put Mercer, Walker and Pierce in the 
league with Shaq, Hakeem & Duncan.  None except Pierce in his brief stint, 
 has really shown any consistency, and Paul's come down to earth lately. 
 One night they score 30, the next can't throw it in the ocean. AW's as bad 
as Shaq from the free throw line which will cost you a lot of close games, 
if we have any.  Toronto has kicked our butts twice this season. As for a 
real 5, we are not going to land a Duncan, Mutombo, or any decent big man 
for nothing. With stiffs making $8M-$10M a year, we are going to have to 
move one of the big 4, or live with the likes of Riley, Schintzius, Nwoso, 
Vrankovic, Kite, Kleine, etc getting killed nightly even by mediocre teams. 
 Serviceable 2's and 3's are abundant, 4's and 5's are not. We are a .500 
team at the best , even with these 3 .

Someone mentioned Marbury not resigning, if there is any truth to this 
Pitino should be offering Anderson & ? for him right now. Mchale shouldn't 
let him walk without getting anything, and Anderson would probably be the 
closest for kevin, unless someone else would be able to part with an 
Iverson, Kidd, or comparable player. Make him sign an extension of course. 




On Saturday, March 06, 1999 8:22 PM, R. Bentz Kirby [SMTP:bocelts@usit.net] 
wrote:
> John:
>
> Even if what you say is true, that doesn't mean that we should trade
> either Walker, Mercer or Pierce for anyone.  Patience is a virtue.  And
> we need to hold on.  If we could trade Anderson and someone else, then
> maybe yes, but not one of these three.  And we need a 5.  The real deal,
> not just someone with potential.  If we can't get the real deal, then we
> are better off to wait for draft or free agency later.
>
> But truthfully, who besides Shaq, Hakeem and Duncan are really worth
> trading any of these three for.  Those are the only ones I would
> consider and really not even for Hakeem as he is too old.  The fact is,
> we can't trade for any of those three so to talk about trading one of
> the 3 is not good basketball or other sense.
>
> If these guys were that good and we needed them to become a championship
> team, the Clippers would have won at least as many games as the Celtics
> by now.
>
> John Lyell wrote:
> >
> > Maybe because Taylor is and Wright are better at the 4 & 5 spot than 
anyone
> > we have,  and until we realize we don't have a good 4 or 5,  we will 
never
> > reach the upper echelon and continue to get beat by teams like Toronto 
&
> > killed by the Blazers, Jazz , Lakers who are not afraid to make moves 
to
> > improve their teams ?
> >
> > On Saturday, March 06, 1999 8:02 AM, R. Bentz Kirby 
[SMTP:bocelts@usit.net]
> > wrote:
> > > And why would we trade for two of the Clippers?  They haven't even 
won a
> > > game this year, have they?  What kind of talent do they have buried
> > > there?
> > > --
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> > >
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>
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