Re: We Don't NEED a Center!

["Richard & Cynthia Davies" <davies.design@worldnet.att.net>]

Amen!

Rich D.

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>From: Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com>
>To: celtics@igtc.com
>Subject: We Don't NEED a Center!
>Date: Mon, Mar 1, 1999, 11:54 AM
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> 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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