Re: Offseason survey

[Alex Wang <awang@mit.edu>]

Good questions about Geiger. This is what the scouts get paid
to find out; I haven't seen him enough to know. Statistically,
Geiger is averaging a little over a block a game in 23 minutes.
He was an excellent shot-blocker in college. I imagine that he 
would be a significant improvement defensively over Knight or 
DeClercq, in any case.

The Globe and other sources seem to imply that Pitino has an
interest in Camby also. If we traded for Camby instead of a
free agent center, it would probably be feasible to keep Popeye
Jones also. I wonder what it would take to get him from Toronto;
maybe our first-round picks from 98 and 99.

Alex

> I think we have more in the five to seven million range, but my question is,
> Can Matt "the Hills Have Eyes" Geiger play defense?  I'm wary about him, give
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> the Travis experience.  He gets most of his points on flashing to the weak
> side and similiar garbage, much as travis did.  Can you give him the ball dow
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> low?  And more important, can he make things difficult for the good post up
> players, like (say) Mutumbo or Reeves?  The guy doesn't block shots at all.
> Does anybody know anything about this?  If he is a defensive liability, I'd
> rather have Stewart, and get my points elsewhere.
> 
> Josh