Re: Larry Brown

[Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com>]

The equivalent of trading Keith Van Horn for Matt
Geiger and Tim Thomas is not what I'm hoping for,
personally.

--- Alex Wang <awang@mit.edu> wrote:
> Larry Brown has definitely done a good job building
> the 76ers, 
> because I think he had a straightforward concept in
> mind. 
> Build a tough defensive team and give the ball to
> Iverson on
> offense. And he traded youth for veterans, just like
> Pitino
> is now thinking. He traded Van Horn for Tim Thomas
> and the future
> cap space to sign Matt Geiger, essentially. He
> benched Thomas in
> favor of George Lynch, another veteran with less
> gaudy stats and
> "potential", and then traded Thomas for Tyrone Hill,
> another 
> veteran. And the Stackhouse for Ratliff trade was
> possibly the
> steal of the year. I'm sure that Pitino's hoping to
> pull something
> similar off with Mercer.
> 
> Alex
> 
> 

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