Re: Keep Antoine

[Elgin W Booth <ewbooth@cisunix.unh.edu>]

I'm just going on what I've seen head to head. Shareef killed us when we
played them last year. I view him as a top all-around player. He totally
outplayed Antoine in every way last year. I'm not sure how selfish he is,
but he seems fine when I've seen him play. I would take him any day over
Walker, too bad he's stuck in Vancouver.

As for Van Horn, I think Walker is outplaying him this year. I don't know
what happened, but Van Horn's lost his shooting touch and also his
confidence possibly. Another who shoots the set shot (a la Walker). Both
these guys are very inconcistent shooters to put it bluntly. I don't think
I would do the Walker for Van Horn trade.

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Jim Meninno wrote:

> >From: Dan Forant <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>
> >
> >Two reason why Walker's not going anywhere.....he's too expensive and not 
> >worth it.
> 
> That's one reason, not two.
> 
> >His 19 points per game come at the expense of 42% shooting, 6.6
> >rebounds and 68% foul shooting. If he were listed on the market he'd be 
> >listed as a don't buy, overvalued.
> 
> Several people have pointed out that virtually all young stars not named Tim 
> Duncan come with this kind of baggage.  We get to see them occaisionally and 
> watch them doing some marvelous stuff on highlight films, but guys like 
> Shareef and Van Horn are no more consistent than Antoine.  The difference 
> seems to be, this year anyway, that Antoine has done what his coach has 
> asked and ignored his statistics.  He doesn't insist that he scores 20 
> points a game because it looks better than 18.  He's playing fewer minutes 
> than ever, and not complaining about it like a lot of other players would.  
> There are no statistics in the Celtics locker room this year, and for a very 
> good reason.  Let's just hope the fans don't teach these players that unless 
> you put up flashy stats, you're going to get run out of town.  We're 
> supposed to be smarter than that, remember?
> 
> Jim
> 
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