Re: Cheaney?

["Jim Meninno" <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>]

>From: Ellie Cutler <ellie@oreilly.com>
>
>Let's hope he can rekindle his 3-pt range. His attempts went
>from 154 (33.8%, in 95-96) to 30 (13%, the following season).

Not unless the NBA is going to move the line back to where it was, I 
suspect.  Although, his decline seems to have come before the line moved, 
which is odd.

>How many SFs does RP need, anyhow! You're right, maybe this glut is related 
>to moving Walker...  I have to assume that E.Washington is going and 
>Cheaney will play at 2.

I'm really sure he thinks of both of these guys, and Griffin too, as two's 
who can play three in a pinch (like Minor and Bowen).  Someone said this is 
the last year of Washington's contract.  If that's true, I'd expect him to 
be Dontae'd.  None of these guys is near as talented as Eric Williams, and 
then there's his boy Walter, in addition to, what's his name, oh yeah, 
Antoine.  If anyone was wondering if Minor would be back, I'd say this just 
about rules that out.  He must be hurt pretty bad, unfortunately.  And, have 
they cut Bowen yet, or what.  There's no way, though, that either of these 
players impacts Walker.

So why, as someone else asked, didn't Pitino spend he exception on a center? 
  Maybe he's expecting Fortson and Battie to share the backup minutes there. 
  You know, if Williams and McCarty are going to play at all, Walker's going 
to spend some time at power forward.  Maybe there's simply no one out there 
worth 2 mil.  They're all either better than that, or minimum wage stiffs.

Jim


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