Re: I Hope You're Right Josh O

[David A Wickerham <aw623@freenet.buffalo.edu>]

It may be true that Kenny, helter-skelter defense, and McCarty are going
to be a problem for the C's this year, but you couldn't prove it from last
nights game.  Kenny shot extremely well (and confidently) and had at least
two brilliant assists that I remember.  The "helter-skelter" defense
didn't yield any open dunks like last year, at least not in the three
quarters of the game I watched.  Walter came into the game and stuck 2 Js
that looked much better than last year's shots.  

I'm not sold on the Celtics yet, but I'm tired of hearing people blame
everything on Kenny.  The only player who was awful yesterday was Cheaney.  

On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Way Of The Ray wrote:

> I would like to see my comments turn out to be ludicrous and
> intemperate, but until the C's get the point guard situation
> straightened out -- as in remove Kenny -- and solve the major
> problem with the club as defined by Mark E.:
> 
>  "a team that plays helter-skelter P-Ball has to have a 
> shot blocking center to defend under the rim when the trap 
> is defeated."
> 
> Until those two problems are solved, more losses are on the 
> way. Now, perhaps Battie can serve that function as the shot-blocking
> center type since he'll be alongside two beefy guys in Fort and
> Pot. Since it appears that both Pot and Fort are going to be in constant
> foul trouble, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to play them
> together,
> rather they're probably best served as substitutes for one another. Of
> course, Il Duce has to cooperate by keeping Toine at the 3 instead of
> the 4.
> 
> I suppose, when Pitino makes the inevitable trade, the C's could pick
> up a shotblocker. I like Shawn Bradley, but the rest of you apparently
> view him as Travis Knight on growth hormones. The two upcoming drafts
> should have some potential defensive/shotblocking types available,
> and you never know when the next Kelvin - 7 blocks and 11 rebounds in
> twenty 
> minutes last night - Cato could arise. 
> 
> However Josh, you're out to lunch and way out in left field on McCarty.
> I doubt if any other team would have given him more than the $1.1
> million exception, cetainly not the 3 year, $8 million deal that the
> C's are paying him. And as far as his defense goes, sure he's a pretty 
> good team/peripheral defender, but his man-to-man D is bad. And then
> there's
> the mistakes he makes and his horrible shooting percentage.
> Ray
> 
> 

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	  Dave Wickerham
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