Fw: I think the C's take Foyle at #3

["Jeff Tepper" <jaytee@itasoft.com>]

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> From: Jeff Tepper <jaytee@itasoft.com>
> To: Geoff DuWors <gduwors@student.umass.edu>
> Subject: Re: I think the C's take Foyle at #3
> Date: Tuesday, May 20, 1997 3:31 PM
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> 
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> > From: Geoff DuWors <gduwors@student.umass.edu>
> > To: Adam Suchocki <Twilight@world.std.com>
> > Cc: rnault@ptialaska.net; chrisl@mjr.com; celtics@igtc.COM
> > Subject: Re: I think the C's take Foyle at #3
> > Date: Tuesday, May 20, 1997 6:58 PM
> > 
> > Why on Earth are all of you so high on Foyle? Sure, he blocked more
shots
> 
> > in three years than Duncan did in four, so what? The main difference in

> > that statement is this: the Patriot League and the ACC. One of my
former 
> > high school teammates, Chris Rojik, was a senior and the captain this
> past 
> > year at Holy Cross, one of Colgate's most formidable opponents in the 
> > Patriot League. Rojik is 6'7", and was the starting center and matched
up
> 
> > against Foyle. With all due respect to Rojik (he's still the best
player 
> > I've ever played with), it's a helluva lot easier to block the likes of

> > Chris Rojik compared to Rasheed Wallace, Joe Smith, or several other
ACC 
> > players Duncan has swatted. Not to mention that Wake Forest played out
of
> 
> > conference games against teams with players like Marcus Camby and Big 
> > Country Reeves, in which Duncan held his own. Obviously, Duncan is
better
> 
> > than Foyle, but that isn't even the point, the point is Foyle is
unproven
> 
> > and was unchallenged in the Patriot League. He wouldn't even be an 
> > issue as a lottery pick if he played in any respectable conference, let

> > alone the ACC. Plus, with the Patriot League being so weak, why
couldn't 
> > Foyle lead his team to the title and into the NCAA tournament this
year? 
> > Sounds like a bust to me. Let's just hope the Celtics shy away from him

> > and let somebody else make the mistake of the draft.
> 
> Geoff,  I go to a Patriot League school and i follow PL basketball.  You
do
> make some good points here, and obviously Foyle wouldn't have put up the
> same kinds of numbers that he did at Colgate if he chose to play at Duke
or
> Syracuse instead.  I also agree that Colgate should have had a better
> season than they did, but you can't blame all of that on Foyle.  Some of
> the other players on his team are at least partly responsible for that,
as
> is the Colgate coaching staff, because they failed to make adjustments
when
> the other Patriot league teams started realizing how to beat them.
> 
> But the reason why Foyle is so highly reguarded is because of his
> potential.  His best basketball is still ahed of him, and once he learns
> more of the game there's no telling how good he could be, and the celtics
> certainly have the time to develop him.  It's true that he could turn out
> to be a bust, but so could any other player in the draft. 
> 
> I'm not saying the celtics should definitely take him, but they should
> certainly keep him in consideration.
> 
> Jeff
>