Re: Re: Summer League player bios

["Jaime S Castillo, Jr." <jaimsite@edsamail.com.ph>]

Hello, Joe and Thndrblt.  I am happy to see Silas Mills(two time Philippine Basketball Assoc. import reinforcement..he was supposed to get back here until the Celts called him up) got invited to the celtics current camps.  I would be more delighted to see his name on the roster because I know this player can play tough basketball.  He is a 3 and could play 2 and even the point.  I could compare this guy to a Doug Christie but with tremendous intensity and desire to win.  He has range and can really soar.  All avid PBA watchers wouldn't forget his thunderous dunks, especially everyones favorite where he took off one foot after the free throw line and jammed the ball with TWO HANDS against another import player(Chris King- a former Grizzly) and ONE! One aspect he's also remembered here in the Philippines,because of his intensity, is his picking up technical fouls every game.  He didn't back off any fights against defending players who got his goat...   He use to average 40pts a game in his first tour of duty here and when he came back his scoring dipped to a 32pts/g due to the fact that all the teams playing against him double team on him whenever he receives the ball at half court or on post ups.  

But the one thing I really like about this guy was his ability to lead and inspire his teammates.  One time in the semifinal round, he sufferred a severe ankle sprain and so the physician told him to sit out the next game.  But come the crucial game, he suited up and played his heart out despite runnin around with a fresh 2 day old sprain!  His team ended up winning the game and he tallied 37 points 8rebs and 4 assists. We could only hope Pervis...(and Pierce? ----- 2-3 weeks disabled due to sprain) had this attitude in them!

This admiration of mine would turn to waste though if he'd turn into a Tony Harris(remember him,guys???), a former celtic free agent acquisition.  For the people in this list who already forgot about Tony "the Hurricane" Harris, Tony Harris was a historic figure here in Philippine Basketball.  He is most remembered for his 105pts explosion in one game.  His career average here in the Philippines in points is around 50/g. Filipino bkball fans were very excited after he got a 2nd week contract signing with the Celtics because all of us thought he'd do all the scoring he'd done here...but he only became a scrub time player.  Averaged only 2pts/g and 1asst/g and if i can remember he wasn't given the next contract til the end of the season, cutting short his dream.  What a bummer for Filipino fans too!!!  


So now, all of bkball fans are holding their breaths and wouldn't count the chicks before they're hatched for Silas Mills.  We just hope he'd make the cut into the final roster and also hope he'd help the team to WIN...a word celtics players, coach, and fans are foreign of now...strange but true.

Thanks for the bios and camp update ThndrBolt.


Jaims

owner-celtics@igtc.com wrote:

>    Thanks TBolt, I loved reading the player bios.
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>    These guys have been all around the world, but the most unique team names
>have to be "Athlon Leper" in Belgium (Pitt's Rodney Elliot) and the "Magic City
>Snowbears" of the IBA (Utah State's Silas Mills). Or how about them Tuborg Spor
>Kulubu Izmirs from Turkey (Maryland's Bobby Martin)? Or the Iraklio OAA Kritis of
>Greece (Georgia Tech's James Forrest)? Do they have such a thing as "Kritis
>Pride"? What do the Leper cheerleaders look like?
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>    James Forrest--a two time first team ACC All Star in 1994 and 1995-- is Mr
>Frequent Flyer. He alone has played professionally in five countries on three
>continents: Spain (C.B. Huelva), Israel (Hapoel Eilat), Italy (Olimpia Basket
>Pistoia),Venezuela (Cocodrilos de Caracas) and Greece (Iraklio OAA Kritis ).
>Silas Mills played professionally in both Estonia and the Philippines (two very
>different climates). David Vanterpool--Silas Mills' teammate last season on the
>CBA champion Yakima Sun Kings--played two whole seasons for the Jilin Tigers in
>China.
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>    Go Celts!
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>    Joe
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>>Celtics Set Roster for Summer League
>>The Boston Celtics announced on July 9 that its top draft selections from
>>each of the past two seasons, Jerome Moiso and Kris Clack, as well as current
>>roster player Tony Battie, are tentatively set to play for the Celtics when
>>the 2000 Shaw's Pro Summer League tips off on July 17 at Umass-Boston. etc
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