Re: NBA Draft Machine 2000

["John Lyell" <johnlyell@hotmail.com>]

What does everyone think of Jason Hart as a point replacement for Anderson ?
Quick, defensive , decent size ?
----- Original Message -----
From: "kevin" <kevin.lok@lycosmail.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 8:31 PM
Subject: NBA Draft Machine 2000


> Hi everybody,
>
> found this site to be very informative on 2000 draft prospects, try it:
> http://www.totalaction.com/draftmachine/nba2000/top_seniors.htm
>
> cheers
> kevin/singapore
>
> MATEEN CLEAVES
> Michigan State - Point Guard
> 6'2", 195
> Cleaves comes into his senior season with a golden opportunity to
> establish himself as a high lottery pick................Cleaves led
> Michigan State into the Final Four with his solid brand of point guard
> play.................And Cleaves is more of a traditional point guard,
> choosing to set up teammates rather than concentrate on scoring, and
> playing solid defense on the other team's backcourt
> threat..................Cleaves is a great distributor of the ball, who
> may be the best pure penetrator among all the eligible
> guards.................He's not shy about putting himself into traffic
> near the basket if it means he can create a scoring
> opportunity.....................Although Charlie Bell, his backcourt
> mate, might be a slightly better defender, there is no doubt that
> Cleaves is very, very solid on the defensive
> end.......................Sure-handed playmaker whose assist-to-turnover
> ratio was nearly 2-1 as a junior..............His leadership inspires
> confidence among his teammates..................However, the package is
> not 100% complete. Cleaves still lacks an NBA-quality jump shot from the
> perimeter and will have his defender playing off of him at the next
> level unless he does something to develop it
> quickly...................But he was a very solid free throw shooter
> (80.2%).............For the 1998-99 season, averaged 11.7 points, 1.6
> rebounds, and 7.1 assists, shooting just 41% from the field and 29.6%
> from beyond the arc.........................Was one of the top assist
> men in the country...............Possesses nice intangibles on the
> floor, but intangibles which are not so nice are the minor legal scrapes
> he got into in the off-season...................Still, everyone in
> Lansing was very relieved that he chose to stay in school for another
> year rather than make himself available for the NBA Draft, where he
> would have added to the deep crop of high-quality point
> guards.............Made just about everybody's All-American team,
> including that of Total Action....... ................Was an
> All-American as a sophomore as well, and went into the 98-99 season as
> one fo the favorites to win the player of the year award.............But
> he went through a lull in December where he put together a series of
> lackluster performances, and took himself pretty much out of
> contention............Came on toward the end of the year, when it really
> counted..........A native of Flint, Michigan, where he played for Flint
> Northern High School and was a teammate of fellow Spartan Antonio Smith
>
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