Yes, terrible trades, ego the size of the moon, an inability to change his coaching/play style for the NBA etc. KG 2013: P is original Celtic. He was a traditional point guard, unlike the score-first guard in Billups. "Meanwhile, the Raptors made out well leveraging Billups into even more assets after making the deal. Complicating matters further was the fact some of Boston’s top young talent came looking for paydays.
Bballcool 2012: Amazing how great Pierce has been for so long.
Not only did Boston fail to come close to a postseason berth in a lockout-shortened 1999 regular season (19-31 record), but Pitino had shipped away both of his draft picks in 1999 NBA Draft, including the No. ''The problem for Pitino? Walker was now getting max money. Keeping youth or acquiring more picks for youth was generally the smart way for rebuilding franchises to go like Toronto. He had already overextended on his future budget.
One year after seeing Walker get handed a six-year max deal by Pitino, While Walker made a strong case for himself in his second season to get a max deal with an All-Star campaign, Mercer's all-around performance was a few notches below that. Ultimately, the Blazers stepped up to the plate with a massive seven-year, $50 million deal that landed the New York native.Anderson was getting paid like an All-Star but he was anything but that already in the second year of his seven-year pact with Portland in 97-98. Pick up a good prospect or two with long-term control besides a bloated Anderson contract? This guy should never coach in the Nba again.
There was also the matter of the five years left on a sizable contract attached to the player that had been underperforming.“While it wasn’t a foregone conclusion that Kenny Anderson would be traded, and we were expecting to keep him even if that meant suspending him for reporting late to Toronto,” Raptors general manager Glen Grunwald told SI at the time. And this is one of the reasons the Cs sucked for so long.
Ultimately, they gave up Anderson and a couple picks to get the deal done, with Blazers owner Luckily for them, Pitino was on the other end of the phone line when they started shopping Anderson around. How he got the Celtics brass to hire the criminally inept Rick Pitino as Supreme Overlord of the Celtics, I'll never know. Donkeys do talk? "When the offense is not there, he'll be able to create a little bit, get in the lane a little bit more. He scored 20-plus points in five games, cementing himself as a starter in November.“I had finally started to play well,” Billups told Grantland in 2012 about his rookie year. Combine that with lackluster defense for a sub .500 team and Mercer’s agents were overplaying their hand quite a bit that summer when demanding a max extension.
[caption id="attachment_566120" align="alignnone" width="1024"]A quick look at the deals involved for the point guards"[caption id="attachment_566117" align="alignnone" width="1024"]So why the infatuation with Anderson from Pitino’s perspective? "When you have a chance to trade for a player like Vitaly Potapenko you have to do it..." All Rights Reserved.
''The problem for Pitino?
Thankee for the inspiration, EEasyA! Yeah having the potential to coach a core of Walker/Pierce/Billups/Johnson. 5 overall from Denver in the 1999 NBA Draft.
Billups wasn’t exactly doing it efficiently (39% FG) but there were plenty of signs of promise throughout his 25 minutes per game. Even if Pitino liked Anderson as a buy-low addition, the key term there for any deal had to be the buy-low part. I needed an avatar and ole Rick was just the perfect choice. August 16, 2000: As part of a 4-team trade, the Boston Celtics traded Danny Fortson to the Golden State Warriors; the Boston Celtics traded Dana Barros to the Dallas Mavericks; the Dallas Mavericks traded Robert Pack, Hot Rod Williams and cash to the Boston Celtics; the Dallas Mavericks traded Bruno Šundov to the Utah Jazz; the Golden State Warriors traded Bill Curley to the Dallas Mavericks; the Golden State … Rick Pitino now says he regrets leaving the college ranks to coach the Boston Celtics — and it’s all because the team didn’t get Tim Duncan. This is The Truth's house. "That may be true or untrue, but I could not ever come close to the numbers (he) wanted. That didn’t apply to the Pitino Celtics.It actually just looks worse here for Boston when other names get involved. One year after seeing Walker get handed a six-year max deal by Pitino, While Walker made a strong case for himself in his second season to get a max deal with an All-Star campaign, Mercer's all-around performance was a few notches below that.
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