Re: post player

[Jim Metz <JBMetzEA@aol.com>]

Title: Re: post player

on 12/12/00 12:47 AM, John Lyell at johnlyell@hotmail.com wrote:

> Lorenzen could help us in the low post but is he really any upgrade from VP
> or Battie ? He has shown he can put up some big rebounding numbers at times,
> but he has had some pretty disappointing years and is not really an
> offensive threat.
>         *****************
> Wright has a huge contract. Worse than Vitaly's. Right now I'd take Battie over Lorenzen, but if we could trade Vitaly and Walter and some other, perhaps Eric Williams' big contract would be needed, I'd do it.
> I don't think Atlanta is thinking along these lines though. They should be wanting to trade Mutombo while he still has value and building around Wright.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ellie Cutler" <ellie@oreilly.com>
> To: "Celtics @ igtc.com" <Celtics@igtc.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 7:08 AM
> Subject: post player
>
>
> > We should get Lorenzen Wright from the Hawks.  His situation reminds me of
> > Parish at Golden State. He's a good player, but with a head case rap. In
> > Wright's case, I don't think the label is warranted.  Any time he gets the
> > minutes, he produces points, rebounds, and blocks, and he can run the
> floor.
> >
> >   --Ellie
> >
> > At 04:17 PM 12/9/2000 -0500, Jim Metz wrote:
> >
> > >Are there any post scorers out there with defensive abilities on teams
> > >that want to rebuild and would like a draft pick? People have mentioned
> > >Mutombo, but he was never a scorer. What about Olajawon? He might be just
> > >what the doctor ordered and just like Mutombo, when he retires, we get
> his
> > >cap room.
> > >JB
> > >--
>

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