RE: Gene, We Have To Be Merciless In Our Evaluation Of Ainge

["John Lyell" <jlyell@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe you are correct on the sign and trades. Brand is not likely to
happen, if he gets an FA offer Sterling will match it for one year. Bosh is
risky and a crap shoot. If San Antonio goes with Kidd or Brand that would
seem to limit o'neals destinations


I think Rahim is better suited for the 3 spot. Battie shifts to the 4 spot
then

I think battier is a Celtic type player. Swift although more athletic than
AW has not shown the offensive skills but them it took Jermaine O'neal a few
years.

I heard Aldridge say Miami I believe was after Vince Carter.

I may get out to the LA pro league tomorrow. Hope I can see Pietrus. I would
like us to go after him and Foyle. They seem to have too many 2/3's

I would consider Battie for kelvin Cato or Marc Jackson or Nesterovich. Cato
gives us an athletic shot blocker/rebounder Tony has not. If we can get a
decent rebounding physical 5 for battie or some bench players this lets us
go after 2/3/4 with Walker.

We need a Jefferson type slasher 3 Pavlovic would have given us.




John








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Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 3:41 PM
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Subject: Re: Gene, We Have To Be Merciless In Our Evaluation Of Ainge


In a message dated 7/5/03 12:29:19 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
jlyell@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> We should be on the phone working deals of Walker in a package for
Jermaine
> O'Neal, Elton Brand, Addur-Rahim, Battier &Swift etc, Bosh, etc. - John


John,

IF Walker is traded for one (or a combination of ) the above,  IMO JO and EB
are pretty unlikely are they would have to involve a sign and trade deal
meaning either guy would have to agree to sign with the C's.

Bosh has the proverbial and dreaded "upside" but I also read yesterday that
the Raptors are trying to sign him this weekend and if that happens, he
couldn't be traded until at least Dec. 15th.

Abdur-Rahim is not really an improvement over Antoine IMO. Granted, he might
be more suited  to play the SF spot than Antoine but I just don't see him
being an overall upgrade.

I do think that a deal with Memphis that yielded both Battier and Swift
would
improve the C's both athletically as well as depth wise. And it would also
most assuredly be a precursor to another deal involving E Will as Battier
would
likely be his successor just as Swift would or should be the starting "4".
Athletically, Swift is a HUGE upgrade over Antoine and the improvement in
rebounding and shot blocking would be enormous if Swift were given anything
close to
Antoine's minutes.

Steve