Re: Power forwards

[j.hironaka@unesco.org]

DJessen33@aol.com wrote:

> We seemed to have reached the point of trading Mercer and possibly Anderson
> for a tough, solid power forward. The following guys have been mentioned and
> I have listed their reg. season stats. I have seen a site that projects stats
> for 48 minutes but don't remember where. If anybody does, please post the
> stats or link...
>
>                                               Rebounds
>                       G  Min  PPG  RPG  APG Off- Def- Tot  AST Stl BLK  To  PF
> Pj Brown             50 1611 11.4  6.8  1.3 115- 227- 342   66  46  48  69 166
> Dale Davis           50 1374  8.0  8.3  0.4 155- 261- 416   22  20  58  43 115
> Rasheed Wallace      49 1414 12.8  4.9  1.2  57- 184- 241   60  48  54  80 175
> Brian Grant          48 1525 11.5  9.8  1.4 173- 297- 470   67  21  34  96 136
> Charles Oakley       49 1593  6.9  7.5  3.3  94- 273- 367  161  46  21  93 179
>
> DJessen33

Hi:

I've never appreciated players with "power forward" bodies who don't crash the
boards or block shots, such as LA's Maurice Taylor and especially Rasheed Wallace
(not just in light of his huge contract, which is bigger than Antoine's).

In fact, I think Ben Wallace now has a bigger upside than Rasheed Wallace. I
frankly don't know much about the unheralded, undrafted Ben Wallace (6-9 240), but
he had his breakout season last year (at age 25) pulling down 8.3 rebounds per
game in just 26.8mpg for the Wiz.  Additionally, he shot .578 from the field and
finished 12th in the NBA in blocks with 1.96 bpg. Either these numbers are flukey,
or he is developing into a "best kept secret". As I recall, he had at least one
nice rebounding game against our Celtics. I don't know what his contract status
is.

Obviously, we would need to have a ton of faith in our other 4 guys to score
points. Ben Wallace averaged just 6ppg and sports a career .352FT%.

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