Re: a center

["Witch Craft" <witchcraft1998@hotmail.com>]

Milwaukee offered to switch picks with the Celtics about a month before 
the draft, if the C's picked up Andrew Lang's contract.
Pitino obviously didn't want to compromise any of the C's salary cap 
flexibility so the deal didn't go through.

Miles Simon - Questions about his shooting/overall skill level.
WC

>From: "Greg Davis" <remy@bigpond.com>
>To: <Celtics@igtc.COM>
>Subject: Re: a center
>Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 21:43:15 +1000
>
>Having lived in Boston from '91 to '96 I became a big fan of the 
Celtics.
>I'm now living back home in Australia and I really enjoy keeping up to 
date
>with the latest news with the Celtics that's provided by this 
newsgroup.  I
>would like to contribute to the on going discussion, but just bear in 
mind
>that being so far removed from the basketball scene in the United 
States I
>don't know the players as initimately as most of you do. A lot of the 
talk
>is about the need for a center. I read earlier that Milwalkee was 
offering
>Andrew Lang to any takers. Wouldn't he be a serviceable veteran center 
with
>a bit of size that would fill the Celtics void in that position? Also, 
how
>come Miles Simon fell so far in the draft? The Ultimate Sports 
basketball
>year books for 96-97 and 97-98 had him rated quite high in both 
editions. I
>haven't seen Ben Pepper play too much, but to give you some sort of
>perspective of the National Basketball League in Australia his 
replacement
>when he changed teams last year was the ex Celtic Todd Mundt who proved 
to
>be more than serviceable.
>Greg
>
>
>
>


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