RE: Los Angeles Box Score

["Niles, Shawn" <SNiles@vanderweil.com>]

Mercer would not have signed here after this year anyway. So even if Fortson
goes, we still have williams, which is more than we would have had without
the trade.

Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: John Lyell [mailto:jlyell@concentric.net]
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 3:40 PM
To: 'Ken Kokubo'; celtics@igtc.com
Subject: RE: Los Angeles Box Score


If Fortson continues to underperform he likely won't be resigned making the
Mercer trade Mercer for Eric Williams !  yikes .



-----Original Message-----
From:	Ken Kokubo [SMTP:klist@harvard.edu]
Sent:	Thursday, January 13, 2000 8:48 AM
To:	celtics@igtc.com
Subject:	Re: Los Angeles Box Score

RE: Fortson
>a half years.  As he walked to the sidelines in the ensuing timeout, he 
>looked to me like he was going to puke.  He was probably only in there for 
>four or five minutes, tops.

I was going to post the same thing. For those that don't watch games, I 
want to make sure it doesn't fuel unwarranted Pitino criticism (timeouts 
and rotations are another story ;^)

When Fortson went down I told myself I would wait until after the all-star 
break to really judge the team. I figured they would need that much time to 
gel and get in sync.

I still really, really, really want to see a few extended minutes of Kenny, 
Pierce, Walker, Fortson, and V on the floor at once...like I said I'll wait.


k

PS We are currently in 10th place in the east, the 6 teams immediately 
ahead of us have an average record of only .529. It's not a cakewalk, but 
certainly encouraging.