RE: BSG Report on Walker Trade

[OzerskyJA <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>]

I like both these trades.  The Chicago one nets us, in effect,
Jamal Crawford and Austin Croshere.  I believe Crawford
to have very serious potential, as in Chris Webber/Penny 
Hardaway type potential.  Croshere is already a more dependable
offensive player than Antoine.  He obviously isn't as talented, can't
dribble and pass with Antoine, but in conjunction with Rose, he
would make us a much better team.  he could play the three and 
Moiso/Battie the four, giving us a very big front court with a shot
blocker to funnel smaller players into.  Also it would be more athletic,
allowing us to return to pressing.  The Detroit trade which gives us
Jerome Williams and a pick is a doozy.  We get Croshere and Williams,
and now we have most of Twon's scoring and more than his rebounding,
while adding in a sure lottery pick (making our total two or three) in next
year's
lottery, where we would stand an excellent chance of getting Shaq jr., or 
some other great young big man.  The Laettner trade is unacceptable.

Josh Ozersky	
Marketing Communications Specialist 
Corning Museum of Glass

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	GAllen@dhhs.state.nh.us [SMTP:GAllen@dhhs.state.nh.us]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 06, 2000 10:45 AM
> To:	celtics@igtc.com
> Subject:	RE: BSG Report on Walker Trade
> 
> First of all, I'd like to thank Josh for posting this report.  I doubt
> that
> anyone else on this list shares Mr. Odegaard's view regarding the post.
> That said here are my thoughts on BSG's speculations:
> 
> I'm against trading Walker unless we can improve our team.  If we can work
> out a deal with Chicago that gets us Jamal Crawford and enables us to sign
> Croshere (not Powers ;-)) and another free agent (Mercer?), I think that
> would be an improvement.  BSG's trade scenarios with Detroit, however,
> don't work for me.
> 
>