RE: Happy anniversary

["Odegaard, Greg M." <GMOdegaa@RMC.com>]

Speaking of which is anyone on the list going to the great upcoming event
for Bill Russell.  If so let us know the details and highlights, and let me
know if you are interested in making a couple bucks picking up event only
souvenirs.  Always looking for Celtics stuff; right Hank?

Have a good one and might I add it is just too bad this "wealthy" franchise
can't figure out a way to pay all these boys, so as Mercer/Pierce could be
the Hondo type 6th man, thereby guaranteeing us championships ala the good
old years.  

Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: peter delevett [mailto:pdelevett@amcity.com]
Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 11:48 AM
To: Celtics
Subject: Happy anniversary


Paul M. wrote: >I
>think we're in for a multi-player/multi-team blockbuster that really shakes
>this roster up.

I think this would be a catastrophe. We will rue the day we let Ron Mercer
go.
It amazes me that people are so cavalier about moving him, as though we have
an equivalent talent at two guard just waiting in the wings. People seem to
think that just because someone is good at the 3 means he naturally can be
swung to the 2 without missing a beat. There are many different skill sets
to
playing the 2 guard that I don't know Paul Pierce has, or at least that I
doubt he can execute as well. 

Jesus -- Larry Johnson, Rodney Rogers, Lorenzen Wright ... What have any of
those guys won? Will you folks LOOK at the teams that keep making these
"multi-player/multi-team blockbusters?" How about the Knicks? The Suns? Pat
Riley failed in his efforts to "shake his roster up" this season, and look
where it got him: with a veteran core of players who are jelling at the
right time.

I would join those who say that instead of trading either Mercer or Pierce,
make one of them a 6th man elite, a la Hondo. IMO, Pierce's overall skills
would render him best suited for that position. Unfortunately, as we all
know
by now, that ain't gonna happen. That could be a function of the team's
youth
-- see my last post, re: the veterans on the Bucks' bench who are content,
if
not happy, to come off the bench and help the team win. It's too bad the
young
Celtics seem averse to that idea, considering what I heard on the radio this
morning: 31 years ago today, the Boston Celtics beat the L.A. Lakers to win
the NBA championship, and some guy named Havlicek scored 40 points. Happy
anniversary.