Re: Mercer worth gamble Issel took in trade

["Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>]

I liked the part on what a good handle Mercer has.  They are in trouble if
they expect him to handle the ball in pressure situations.

Cecil

----- Original Message -----
From: KK <Kestutis.Kveraga@Dartmouth.EDU>
To: Celtics List <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 1999 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: Mercer worth gamble Issel took in trade


> DJessen33@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > How come we can't have any Boston writers who are as biased as this
Denver
> > newspaper writer?
>
> Because, to paraphrase Wesley Snipes in "White Men Can't Jump", it's not
easy
> being so bad. I could never understand why the Globe's sportswriters were
always
> considered to be some of the best in the nation, but now I'm beginning to.
It's
> not that they're so good, it's just that most of their colleagues could
> successfully audition for the cast of "Dumb and Dumber 2 1/2". This guy
makes
> Paul's crazy uncle look like a paragon of objectivity and fairness, as
well as a
> veritable basketball guru.
> Re: the basketball part, I guess with Denver's not being what you call a
> basketball town, and the Nuggets' (or Colorado) not exactly having a
winning
> tradition, it's harder to develop an understanding of what makes a winning
team.
> Thus it is perhaps little surprise that this so-called sports columnist is
a
> sucker for the superficial stuff (e.g., "Mercer, who at age 23 already has
> scored nearly 2,000 NBA points, could grow into Denver's sweetest,
smoothest
> scorer...")that *looks* good, and has no idea of the value of players like
> Fortson, who rebound, defend, intimidate, and generally do all the dirty
work
> that needs to be done for a team to win. This trade, as Josh Ozersky has
said,
> is a litmus test, and this guy fails it.
> Kestas
>