Re:

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

The league has enough centers to play the offense mentioned, the problem is
they don't have the guards capable of getting it to them and don't know
what to do with the ball when they get it. It's still the simplest and most
effective way to run an offense if there is basketball savvy around. 

At 12:42 PM 6/14/99 -0400, you wrote:
><<I seem to remember a team dumping it in every play down floor. To either 
>the Chief or McHale. Think they were the Boston Celtics of past. It was 
>extremely effective, although Ewing is neither a Chief or McHale talent 
>wise. Ewing doesn't like to mix it up with the big boys much, mostly a 
>perimeter game which is one reason he never won a ring.>>
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>But that is not the point.  Of course the C's dumped it in.  But who was
>the MAN? Bird of course.  My point is that it has been a very long time
>since a team has as the #1 option, every time down the court, a center, and
>been successful at it.
>Oh wait, now I can remember one...  The L. A. Shaqers....
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