Re: We Don't NEED a Center!

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

Here, Here, well said. This needing a center stuff is a bunch of bull. All
we need is a big oaf that can block the middle on D and get some rebounds.
Look back through the records, there weren't many great centers capable of
carrying a team anywhere. It's a different game these days. 

At 08:54 AM 3/1/99 -0800, you wrote:
>When in the world are you guys are going disabused of the notion that
>a team can't win without a big star center?  We have three guys on the
>team who can post up and play defense and rebound (two if you say,
>with some justification, that Tony Battie isn't a center -- although
>we havent really seen what Schintzius brings to the table.).  You need
>something on the inside, and that's why we have great post up players
>in Antoine and Pierce -- the Center just needs to be able to receive
>passes out of double teams and offensive rebound.  If you put together
>Riley's and Drew's numbers, they compare to most hotshot centers, and
>unlike them, they don't turn the offense into a stagnant, in-and-out,
>23-second eating- quagmire.  Trading Ron Mercer for anybody other than
>a comparable talent is ludicrous, and Rick knows that very well.  Wake
>up!  This is the same kind of thinking that led the Trailblazers to
>draft Sam Bowie ahead of Michael Jordan.
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>Josh
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