Re: Finally Some Coaching

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

It's a bit difficult comparing athletes from different era's. Mainly
because of development. 

At 12:15 PM 1/1/00 -0800, you wrote:
>It's not that West wasn't great; but Jordan at that
>position is an open and shut case, as everybody knows.
> Jordan was six inches taller, forty pounds stronger,
>and three times as fast.  West couldn't have covered
>him without a net, and Jordan would have made West's
>life miserable when West had the ball.
>
>--- Cecil Wright <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca> wrote:
>> Not looking to start anything here (who me?) but
>> Jerry West did not earn the
>> nickname "Mr. Clutch" for nothing.  He was a great
>> player at both ends of
>> the court, though he may not have been the most
>> athletic in terms of
>> vertical leap, etc.  Some others would argue that
>> omitting Kareem is also
>> crazy.
>> 
>> Cecil
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com>
>> To: <Georgek27@aol.com>; <celtics@igtc.com>
>> Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 4:53 PM
>> Subject: Re: Finally Some Coaching
>> 
>> 
>> > How can anyone actually say that Jerry West is
>> better
>> > than Michael Jordan?  And how about leaving Larry
>> Bird
>> > off the list?  Tommy is nuts.
>> >
>> > --- Georgek27@aol.com wrote:
>> > > In a message dated 12/31/99 8:36:47 AM Eastern
>> > > Standard Time,
>> > > dforant1@nycap.rr.com writes:
>> > >
>> > > << Heinsohn's Century team: West, Cous, Petit,
>> > > Baylor and Russell. What do you
>> > >  think?  >>
>> > > I thought it was both funny & amazing that he
>> left
>> > > Jordan (and Robertson) off
>> > > the list but I wasn't surprised that he chose
>> his
>> > > contemporaries.
>> > >
>> > > George
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
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