Will someone explain this need for a power forward to me?

[Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com>]

Why do we need a power forward?  We have our tough
guy/enforcer at center; a nonscoring shotblocker at 4;
and scorers at 2 and 3.  I could see the sense in a
point guard upgrade, or a sixth man, but I don't see
where we need this tough guy.  Keep Tony Battie! 
(Incidentally, has anyone heard anything about this
other than from bskball.com?)


--- j.hironaka@unesco.org wrote:
> 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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> 
> 
> 

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