Re: Trades...........

[Vinny Natale <vnatale@map.com>]

How does Penny not get to be the point guard?  I don't see you listing any
other than him!

Vinny


At 11:16 PM 5/31/99 +1000, Warwick wrote:
>All,
>
>Okay so we do the Penny Hardaway trade and then we're left with the
>possibility of having to add another point guard to the team...
>
>The Clippers are obviously keen to get Tony Battie and they also require
>a point guard. Would a trade of Battie and Dana Barros for Rodney Rogers
>and the #4 pick in the draft be out of the question??
>
>We could draft either Andre Miller, Baron Davis or perhaps hope that
>Steve Francis was still available. Either way they all seem to be pretty
>good quality point guards..
>
>If it did happen (both trades) we would be left with
>
>Center - Vitaly Potapenko
>Power Forward - Rodney Rogers
>Small Forward - Antoine Walker
>Shooting Guard - Paul Pierce
>Point Guard - Penny Hardaway
>Sixth Man - Our #4 pick rookie
>
>Second Unit
>
>Center - Popeye Jones? Pervis Ellison? Eric Riley? Free Agent?
>Forward - Rodney Rogers
>Forward - Walter McCarty
>Guard - Greg Minor
>Guard - Damon Jones [would play limited minutes due to the Rogers/#4
>substitutions]
>
>I see Penny liking this deal a lot as it would mean that he wouldn't
>have to play the point guard position on a full time basis. With Abudato
>having something to do with the Celtics, Penny would have a chance to go
>back to his best- much the same as Chris Webber in Sacramento this
>season with Steve Fisher (former Michigan head coach) an assistant.
>
>Rodney Rogers would really become a part of the second unit, but would
>be a starter and a substitution (depending on matchups) of Rogers for #4
>pick point guard taking place sometime from 4 minutes to 8 minutes gone
>in the first....
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Warwick
>