re: Re: Vecsey Details Ainge's Offer for Wells, Patterson, and McInnis

[wayray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Jessen,
I just got in from snowblowing and shoveling our quasi-blizzard. And I read this.
And it provides me with no sustenance of truth. Since the deal wasn't apparently
as Vecsey stated, the point will have to be conceded. And I'm breaking out with
snow hives. My nose is running. Williams and a first for Wells, as stated by Bulpett.
I'm not sure I liked that trade either. I'd rather they save their resources for Rasheed.
Any ways either Jimbo goes or Ainge makes a trade, something gots to give.
Ray


> ** Original Subject: Re: Vecsey Details Ainge's Offer for Wells, Patterson, and McInnis
> ** Original Sender: Celtic4Hire@xxxxxxx
> ** Original Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 22:16:02 -0800 (PST)


> Bonzi made some sense because of his expiring contract. This one doesn't 
> because we would be adding questionable character players and really extending the 
> contract lengths. I wouldn't have seen this one happening because of that. 
> Plus, I don't think James or Walter could have been traded until the 15th....
> 
> It is really questionable to chastise a GM for a trade that didn't happen.....
> 
> DJessen33
> 
> 
> > D.C. sources close to Bill Strickland, agent for Bonzi and Rasheed, among 
> > others (Allan Houston, for example; all his clients aren't potholes) says the 
> > Blazers gave him permission a while back to seek out desirable trades. 
> > He uncovered the following opportunity: Eric Williams, Tony Battie, Kedrick 
> > Brown, Walter McCarty and Mike James in exchange for Bonzi, Ruben Patterson 
> > and Jeff McInnis, yet another Strickland client. 
> > As badly as the Blazers are itching to dump Patterson, the five-for-three 
> > offer couldn't satisfy all the parameters fulfilled by the one-for-one swap 
> > with Memphis. Portland got Wesley Person, a quality guy (a lifetime 42 percent, 
> > 3-point shooter) on the last year of his contract; the talent disparity was 
> > evened up by the draft pick. 
> > In all fairness to Ainge, he has only just begun to get a feel for moving 
> > the Celtic chess pieces. Fact is, already he has managed to distinguish himself 
> > from his counterparts by falling below the bar in the east; that'll teach 
> > him (and Boston's new owners) to try to fix something that was battered and 
> > bent, but not necessarily broken.

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