re: Bird vs Walker

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

Comparison's to Larry Bird. You got to be kidding. Not even close. Toine
has light years to go to even sniff Larry's resume. Who said, "how soon
they forget"?

At 02:57 PM 9/3/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>Joe and co.,
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>it's easy to get caught up in comparing Walker and Bird, and then
>comparing the fan and media's treatment of them.
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>But IMO, there's only 1 reason why Bird was treated as a king, and Walker
>is thrown to the wolves.
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>Bird's teams won, right from the beginning.
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>Walker's teams have never made the playoffs.
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>Granted Bird had lots of help, and it doesn't explain the good son/bad son
>of Mercer vs. Walker, but I gotta believe, if Bird's teams had sucked
>until 1985, he would've been crucified as well as a no-good hick that
>should be packed off to his farm in Indiana.  All kinds of sordid stories
>would have been printed about Bird, Parish, and eventually Johnson, if
>they lost, and lost often.
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>Winning forgives all.
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>-Jamey
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