Re: Domon Jones

[Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com>]

yes, but unlike Todd Day they are probably good
practice players and locker-room influences.  Boston's
love of Marty Conlon couldn't hurt either in winning
over fans.  Overton is one of those guys who knows how
to play.  I'm not saying he's Adrian Griffin, but he
is a seasoned vet.  That's why he was hired.  He is
only an insurance policy, after all.  It's not like
this guy was the heir to the throne.

--- opi@unesco.org wrote:
> Hi Greg,  if I recall correctly Damon Jones didn't
> play in the Fila Summer Pro
> League, so the only way he could really protect his
> roster spot was for Turner
> (and Kevin Ollie, Marlon Garnett) to fall flat on
> his face out there.
> Unfortuanately for Damon Jones, Turner did play well
> enough out there against
> what in retrospect was weak competition. Eric
> Washington is another guy who
> didn't participate much this summer, and it seems to
> have cost him a fair
> chance to make the team also.
> 
> The real question for me is not "too bad about Damon
> Jones" but rather why
> Pitino would hand a guaranteed veteran salary to a
> Doug Overton -- with ZERO
> games worth of a tryout playing his system and a
> subpar NBA point guard
> resumé-- instead of a winner (Turner) who at least
> knows how to run the Pitino
> system since he was a teenager and had played fairly
> well through 22 summer
> and pre-season games. I'm not really criticizing
> Pitino. I know there MUST
> have been a good reason.
> 
> As far as I'm concerned, Overton and Conlon are
> scraping the bottom of the
> barrel in terms of "veteran" NBA talent. They seem
> less useful or promising
> than anything we had in the entire ML Carr and
> early-Pitino regime, including
> Todd Day.
> 
> Joe
> 
> -----
> Greg Davis wrote:
> 
> > Can someone tell me why Rick Pitino passed on
> Damon Jones for Wayne Turner
> > only to cut Turner at the beginning of the season?
> Wasn't Damon Jones
> > fairly impressive last year for the Celtics? It
> appears Jones' is now
> > playing well for Golden State. Surely Rick Pitino
> knew the capabilities of
> > Wayne Turner before he signed him? I just don't
> understand this one.
> > Greg
> 
> 


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