Piece on KA from the Atlanta paper

[Mark Estepp <EsteppJM@appstate.edu>]

This is probably pretty "cut up" Sorry for that.  But it is interesting to 
see what someone else is writing about Kenny.
Of course in Atlanta, he was a god.


>HAWKS NOTEBOOK
>                      Jeffrey Denberg - Staff
>                      Tuesday, October 26, 1999
>
>                      Biloxi, Miss. -- You wouldn't know it looking at him 
> in a warm-up but Kenny Anderson is no longer the scrawny guy he was at 
> Georgia Tech.   Anderson worked out over the summer, hit the weight 
> mahines and got bigger and stronger.
>
>                      He sort of dances around that concept in the way New 
> York City guys have of minimizing things, but you can see the difference 
> when he puts on his Celtics game jersey.
>
>                      "I put on a little weight," he said. "You know, you 
> get a little older, you put on a little weight."
>
>                      Anderson is a little older, reaching his 29th 
> birthday a few weeks ago. Known as a player who was set in his ways, 
> there has been a question of his ability to hold up in the pressing, 
> trapping defensive game that Rick Pitino favors.
>
>                      This month Anderson appears on the way to answering 
> those questions. He's averaging 10.8 points per game in only 26 minutes 
> per night heading into Monday's preseason game with the Hawks. He's 
> getting inside for easy scores, shooting 55 percent and stepping up 
> defensively.
>
>                      "I think Kenny Anderson's been a joy," Pitino said. 
> "I mean, in (the first) two games he had 13 deflections on that chart 
> that we keep. Four per game would be a lot. And he went to the floor 11 
> times in two games, beating his man to the floor diving for a ball. He's 
> been great. I never thought I'd see the day when he would concentrate so 
> much on defense,
>and that's wonderful."
>
>                      Anderson concedes his new-found strength has helped.
>
>                      "You know, you got to survive. They try to tell us 
> that it's not going to be as physical this year, but when we played Utah 
> (Saturday night) I didn't notice  any difference in (John Stockton). He 
> still bangs into you because he wants you to bang him back so the refs 
> will get you with the call. That hasn't changed."
>
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