Re: Comments on 'Toine

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

Walker's problem is he isn't improving or working at it. A bad summer on
twinkies and lazy camp don't help.

At 08:28 AM 11/8/99 -0500, you wrote:
>This team can have a special kind of year (sort of like the Reds in 
>baseball) but only if AW gets it together.  It looks like no one ever told 
>this guy (or at least got him to listen) that he needs a "back to the 
>basket" inside game to compliment the outside shot if he is really going to 
>be a stud forward in the NBA.
>
>''Toine has very ineffective low post moves, such as:
>- The spin move off the baseline - He is quick enough to usually get around 
>the defender, but does not control the ball well enough to be in control 
>when he does get around the defender.  Also, he can't jump well enough to 
>overpower the defender.  Has anyone ever seen him DUNK off of this 
>move?!?  (The way Chief used to do)
>
>- The "half hook".  When he shoots this shot, he is totally unprepared.  He 
>is not sighting the basket, and the release is never the same.  He is lucky 
>when it ever goes in, and that's not often.  He takes this shot both from 
>the middle of the lane, and from the side of the lane.  Both are poorly 
>executed.
>
>He is in bad need of some low post tutoring.  I'm just not sure he would 
>listen to the tutor...
>
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