Re: Maybe Pitino Was Right

["John Lyell" <johnlyell@hotmail.com>]

In Pitino's  place would you have offered Ron Mercer an inconsistent shooter
the max? It is true maybe they could have agreed to a one year deal but who
knows. Derek Anderson is a guy who took less to go with San Antonio and
could possibly win a ring this year. Yeas they are few and far between but
Mercer had a chance to come back to the Celtics for a year and they
renegotiate a bigger deal but chose not to.


I am not sure we would have been better. Chauncy just could not handle the
point. Would he have been better than Brown, Carr, and Stith? That's
questionable. Maybe Brown and Carr but Stith has played well and we Denver's
draft pick also from the mercer trade.

As I said when the Anderson deal went down everyone was glad to welcome him
and move Chauncy out of town. Unfortunately he has not helped as expected.


Would you move Battie for Nazr Mohammed to shore up the inside game ? If the
Warriors can not make Marc Jackson and offer he can get elsewhere can we
move Battie or VP in a package for Jackson and Blaylock or Vonteego Cummings
?

If Ewing leaves Seattle which is likely, could we move VP or Battie for
Shammond Williams and Oyedeji ?



Who is going to coach the C's next year ?.

OB ?
Karl?
Ainge?
Westphal?
Tom Izzo ?

None of the above ?


----- Original Message -----
From: "I am. . . Anonymous" <ktoreed@yahoo.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 2:19 AM
Subject: Re: Maybe Pitino Was Right


> I find it incredible that you would fault Mercer for
> signing with the Bulls.  He signed with the team that
> offered the most money as well as the most playing
> time.  Although arm-chair quarterbacks like to fault
> players for signing big contracts with bad teams,
> there are probably very few people out there who
> wouldn't do the same.
>
> I think what Misha was trying to say was that if
> trader Rick had held onto Mercer and Billups, then
> right now we would be a better team, which I
> definitely agree with.  They would also give Wallace
> far tastier trade bait for the purpose of prying a
> true center from another team or moving up in the
> draft, overpaid or not.
>
>
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