Re: Happy anniversary

["jeppes" <jeppes@watkins.dillingham.com>]

I do believe Mercer is going to be worth a whole lot more on the market than
McCarty ever dreamed of!
----- Original Message -----
From: Way Of The Ray <wayray@ix.netcom.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: Happy anniversary


>
>
> > Subject: Happy anniversary
> > Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 10:47:45 -0800
> > From: peter delevett <pdelevett@amcity.com>
> > To: Celtics <Celtics@igtc.com>
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> Two things he can execute better than Mercer are three point shooting
> and
> defense.
>
>
> > Jesus -- Larry Johnson,
>
> LJ has two year left on his contract, and then a $12 M slot to sign a
> quality
> free agent becomes available.
>
>  Rodney Rogers, Lorenzen Wright ... What have any of
> > those guys won?
>
> What have any of the Celtics won on the NBA level?
>
> Will you folks LOOK at the teams that keep making these
> > "multi-player/multi-team blockbusters?" How about the Knicks?
>
> Camby is finally being used right and Ewing has been injured.
>
> The Suns?
>
> The Suns are playing very well as of late.
>
>
> 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.
>
> And I'm sure after they're eliminated in the playoffs,
>  he'll try to make another blockbuster deal.
>
>
> > 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.
>
>
> The skids are being greased for a Mercer deal.  It's funny, I didn't
> hear anything
> about budgetary considerations when they handed out the contract to
> Walker.
> Add in Pitino's desire for a big forward; the inability to bring one of
> the three
> young players off the bench; the fact that base salary compensation
> makes Walker
> extremely hard to trade; Pitino's unhappiness with Battie's defense...
> and all
> that leaves you with one out: To deal Mercer for a quality power forward
> - probably
> packaged with Battie; perhaps Kenny included too.
> Ray
>