RE: PG's

["Odegaard, Greg M." <GMOdegaa@RMC.com>]

Jason Kidd is easily the best choice to fill the bill per Peter's
specifications here.  He is playing very well most night's in Phoenix,
though when he is down he is really down and the Suns inevitably lose
easily.  What player in today's NBA has anything close to a 100% consistent
game anymore?   They all seem to take nights off occasionally.

Payton is a 10, but yes is getting up there, and wouldn't play for RP in an
OSU Beaver minute (this means 3 and out in local football terms).

Marbury would have been a 9 for sure, but alas he is gone home to the big
city.  

Stockton is not a 10 anymore for sure, but he was a 10+ because he truly
could do it, in fact made Magic look bad 100's of times late in his career,
when Stock couldn't be stopped on both ends.  His defense is grossly
underrated (steals leader and all).

I have always thought the world of Terry Porter (playing in Portland for
years) who was also a great all around PG.  His duels with Stockton were
enough to make your eyes water, those and Kevin Johnson in the early 90's as
well.  Give Riley credit for picking Porter up.  Just think what value he
could have brought to our team this year and next? KJ is still home mowing
the lawn.

I feel with respect to the PG, we should draft here and let the right
project develop (project being a pure PG who can defend), without a likely
pick this year this becomes a challenge, though I am still high on Alvin
Williams, who like Yogi hasn't gotten much of a shake in Toronto to develop.
He has a near complete game and could be had this summer out of his one year
exemption deal.

Have a nice spring day folks,
Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: peter delevett [mailto:pdelevett@amcity.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 3:03 PM
To: hartleyo@ix.netcom.com
Cc: celtics@igtc.com
Subject: Re: this team sucks/but will change


You know, there has been an awful lot of discussion about this, both on the
list and in the press. But I can't think of a whole lot of defensive-minded
point guards out there who could also run the team the way it needs to be
run
and who could be available in a trade or via free agency. People have kicked
around Payton's name but that is a pipe dream, plus he is, what, 31 years
old?
(3 years older than Kenny.) So what other guards are out there who could
make
this mystery scenario work? (Don't say Wayne Turner; I mean a veteran who
could step in and run the team right now.) I can only come up with names
like
Corey Beck, Greg Anthony, Derek Fisher, Jacque Vaughn ... not too exciting,
any of them.



Sherry & Hart wrote:
> 
> I do believe that Pitino will most likely try to trade Minor somewhere
> for almost anything if he can. I also think that if he could get a
> defensive minded point guard for KA, he would do it in a heartbeat.