RE: center possibility

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

You know as much as some here wanted to take me to task on being so high on
McCullough from Washington, and did not play as well against Stanford as he
had in a career game 2 days earlier versus Cal, Young certainly wasn't the
reason for it, nor his teams ultimate close win over a underclassed Wash
team at home.  With all due respect, maybe Todd Mc is not going to make it
int the NBA, but any respect given to Young making it is very premature.
The times I have seen him play, most notably against Todd Mc on Saturday he
has got a lot more real problems than Todd Mc or others by a long stretch.
Todd dominated on the boards and most importantly in this game in
foul/position battle.  Young played as uncontrolled guy for many minutes,
though they were few given this fact.  His true colors will be born out in
the UConn game to come. Being center on a top ranked, final 4 team does not
make you great, just remind yourself of one Eric Montross if you doubt the
basis of that. 

It just goes to show you how few top notch, class, NBA centers are out
there.  I found some substance to the analysis earlier that Kandi could be a
star in some years to come, and this has much more upside given the shortage
of centers, and is why the Slippers took as big of a chance on him as they
did.

Ode

-----Original Message-----
From: mberry@journalink.com [mailto:mberry@journalink.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 11:59 AM
To: celtics@igtc.com
Subject: center possibility


Not really looking ahead to draft time already, but since everyone has been 
tossing around names, thought I'd provide some stats on Northwestern's 6-11,

255-pound Evan Eschmeyer. He is the only 20-10 guy in Div. I, averaging 20.6

points, 10.4 rebounds and 2.6 assists. (MacCullough is 17.9 - 10.7 - 0.7 and

Young [ugh] is 9.0 - 6.5 - 1.9.
Eschmeyer had a triple double against Indiana, scoring 27 points with 12 
rebounds and 10 assists. He shoots 56 percent from the field.

I've never seen him play, but I received a flyer promoting him for player of
the 
year. That's how I got all the stats. 

Just FYI.

Mark