Re: The VP Mystery

[Michael Joseph Byrnes <mbyrnes@leland.Stanford.EDU>]

On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Mister Ghost wrote:

> A couple of factors to consider - As a backup player [Potapenko's] stats
> would naturally be skewed: Lack of playing time; Consistency; Garbage
> Time appearances; Cleveland has backup point guard problems, so
> he may have not seen a lot of shots, etc. And Kemp and Ilgauskas
> gobble up the boards, so there wouldn't be as many rebounds
> available.  

But, for most of this year, Potapenko has been starting alongside the
heftier Sean Kemp, and his Cleveland numbers were still not very good.
Perhaps he does better with the Celtics because he is the C's main inside
threat, and the C's have better perimeter players?

Michael Byrnes
mbyrnes@stanford.edu