Rick Fox...once and for all

["FRANK SINATRA: CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD" <diazj@merrimack.edu>]

To the list:

Rick Fox will NOT make any all defensive NBA team!  He is not that great of
a defensive player!  Be an NBA fan for a second and not a Celtic fan!  He is
really not very respected as an NBA veteran around the league.  There is a
reason why every single team that the Celtics play leave him, not just open,
but WIDE open for 18 foot shots.  He doesn't rotate on defense and is an 
average defensive player.  This is an overrated comment.

Fox just doesn't finish like Kemp or Karl Malone, he finishes about once every
three opportunities...not very impressive.  He scores 14 ppg because the 
Celtics have no one to score so they have to resort to the likes of him.

This player is the perfect example of why the Celtics need a general manager 
like Don Nelson or someone else who knows what they are doing.  They could
cut their losses...like Fox, Todd Day and other average players with huge
salaries like Dana Barros and start from scratch.  Who knows when that will
happen though.  

The key thing is that Rick Fox is not even close to the caliber of small 

forwards like Grant Hill of Detroit or Scottie Pippen of Chicago.  He isn't
really even close to someone like Derrick McKey of Indiana.  McKey WILL be
named to an NBA All-Defensive team.  He is a fantastic defensive player...
something Fox is not.  David Benoit of Utah is more of an efficient player
than Fox.  Benoit and McKey produce more in less minutes than Fox.  Fox is
among the third tier of small forwards in the NBA.  These include Donald
Royal of Orlando or Sean Higgins of New Jersey.  Even players that are way
past their prime like Sam Perkins of Seattle or Buck Williams of New York
are actually better assets to any team than Fox would be.  

My final comment is that in a duel of Robert Horry of the Lakers and Fox, two
pretty well matched up players...Horry is better in almost every way.  Just
look at Fox from a general standpoint and not as Celtic fans when analyzing
him.

John Diaz