Re: Ben Pepper

["Greg Davis" <pakpoy@one.net.au>]

Your last paragraph illustrates the point I was trying to make re Pepper's
potential for playing in the NBA. Even if his numbers rivalled that of King
and Bradtke (and therefore we could assume comparitive skill and ability),
you have two examples of  centres who failed to make any positive impact
whatsoever in the NBA.

I don't mean to denegrate Pepper as a basketballer, but simply wanted to
put his playing ability in perspective. You're quite right in pointing out
that Sydney has no depth at centre and this obviously inflates King's stats
to a degree.

Greg

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> From: Warwick <giants@eisa.net.au>
> To: Greg Davis <pakpoy@one.net.au>
> Cc: Celtics Mailing List <Celtics@igtc.com>
> Subject: Re: Ben Pepper
> Date: Monday,February 15,1999 15:27
> 
> That is massively understating the situation with Ben Pepper.
> 
> Acie Earl plays for a team that has absolutely no depth at big man while
Pepper
> has one of the deepest teams in the league around him and a fellow Boomer
> (Australian team) camper in Brett Wheeler backing him up at center and
remember
> the Australian team came the closest to beating the Dream Team at the
Atlanta
> Olympics so to say that having a fellow Boomer camper backing you up
isn't a
> big side would be wrong.
> 
> Earl's numbers should increase now that the Kings star player (Matt
Nielson)
> has gone down with a season ending injury.
> 
> I'm certain that Pepper's #s would rival Earl's and quite possibly Mark
> Bradtke's if given equal playing time.
> 
> Warwick
>