FW: Trades and ships and planes.

[OzerskyJA <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>]

> interesting post, but you're wrong about franchise centers coming
> along...the last one game alone in 97, two came in 92 i think, w/ Shaq AND
> Mourning, Robinson a few years before that, Ewing a few years before that,
> and that's not counting Mutumbo.  And that's just centers.  Look at the
> top
> three players taken in the last five or six drafts, and tell me that none
> of
> them would change our fortunes dramatically.
> 
> The top of the draft is EVERYTHING in building a team.  Especially for a
> franchise like ours.
> 
> Josh Ozersky	
> Marketing Communications Specialist 
> Corning Museum of Glass
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Jim Metz [SMTP:JBMetzEA@aol.com]
> > Sent:	Monday, December 18, 2000 6:30 PM
> > To:	Celtics Pride; Celtics @ igtc.com
> > Subject:	Trades and ships and planes.
> > 
> > There are two ways to go. 
> >    1. Trade our players with a contender, ie the Knicks who would use
> > Pierce and/ or whoever, to  get Mutombo, while we get Camby and Houston.
> > This will deplete the roster we have. No one will want the players we
> > don't want, so how do we get better, trading players for players? Is
> Chris
> > Childs any better than Kenny Anderson? Battie much less than Camby(who
> is
> > damaged goods) and Houston is quite one-dimensional compared to Pierce.
> > This is what we would be looking  at, trading with a contender.
> >    2. Trade our draft picks to a team that is out of the playoffs and
> > wants a chance to rebuild. Here's where we could improve dramaticly.
> This
> > is the kind of trade that gets us a Mobley or a Taylor or Olawakandi and
> > Odum, for nothing, that hurts us today. What would we really be giving
> up?
> > A chace to draft the next franchise center. Note the word; "chance."
> > These guys come along every 15 years. Russ/Wilt, Kareem/Walton,
> > Olajuwon/Ewing, Shaq/Duncan .  What are the odds that we get the right
> > one, even if there are one or two in this years group? Remember, none of
> > the above came right from high school.
> >    My move? Let Rick push himself upstairs, O'brien coach from the bench
> > for the rest of the season and trade those draft picks for the best two
> > players we can get. I don't have the patience to watch another lottery
> > thinking that "fools gold" will be the next answer.
> > --
> > 
> >      Unchain My Heart! 
> > 
> >