Re: Finally Some Coaching

["Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>]

I didn't know Jordan was 6'9" :-)

Cecil

----- Original Message -----
From: Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com>
To: Cecil Wright <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>; <Georgek27@aol.com>;
<celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: Finally Some Coaching


> 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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