Re: Walker

[Dan Forant <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

Maybe at these prices on another team.

Written by Matthew.J.Backus@state.me.us
At 12:46 PM 12/15/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Speaking for myself, I feel I over-evaluated AW after his first year.
>Looking for someone on the C's to pin my hopes of another championship to
>hang from the rafters, I grasped for the first potential starlike material I
>could find.  I began watching the C's in the mid-80's and got to see some
>fine play from the green.  I like most others thought we had a saviour in
>Lenny Bias and then Reggie Lewis.  So when AW came along, finally another
>star in the making.  All the physical tools and maybe soon the mental and
>leadership tools to go along with them.  But, it appears as though it may
>not happen.  Now he just looks overpaid.  Can AW play basketball, I think we
>all know he can.  Can he meet our expectations, maybe not.  Not to abuse a
>cliche "but some things you just can't teach".  Rather than running AW out
>of town for not being who we want him to be, I hope the C's find a role he
>can be comfortable with.
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