Re: Mark Blount

[Way Of The Ray <wayray@ix.netcom.com>]

Little Joe here has brought up a good point.
With the excommunication of Fortson, and
the addition of string beans Moiso and
Blount, the C's motto will soon be: "Where's the Beef?"

Who exactly is going to rebound on this team or
provide any physicality besides the limited Vitaly?
Ray 


--- Joe Hironaka <j.hironaka@unesco.org> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:48:02 +0200
> From: Joe Hironaka <j.hironaka@unesco.org>
> To: OzerskyJA <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>
> CC: "'celtics@igtc.com'" <celtics@igtc.com>
> Subject: Re: Mark Blount
> 
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> OzerskyJA wrote:
> 
> > One interesting thing about Blount's
> obscurity is how it
> > highlights how lazy sportswriters are.  The
> guy not only
> > has grown three inches since his NBA
> measuring at 6 10,
> > but if he is 220 pounds than I am Johnny
> Depp.  Blount
> > is 250 if he is a pound.  Even Walter weighs
> 235!
> > ,
> 
> List eye-witnesseses, please kindly clarify!! 
> If this guy Blount truly
> has truly slimmed down to the 220 pound, 7-0
> weight class in order to
> regain his previously thoroughly invisible
> lateral mobility (as now
> hyped by Head Coach Spin-Retardino and also
> widely lapped up by the
> local media), won't Blount and Moi-So-what?
> eventually slide into the
> identical " 'tweener" space that McCarty,
> Battie and Frog Man alrready
> ineptly occupy at a combined multimillion
> dollars per year, in order to
> satisfy Pitino's dillusions? All four of these
> "a weight room away"
> Spintino star recruits are creepily identical
> in size and build.
> 
> Now more than ever, it is meaningful to salve
> the dignity of Boston
> Celtics fans that we actually have just one
> spirited guy over 230 pounds
> (Potapenko) who noticeably endeavors to body-up
> on the Shaqs of the
> league. May the player's who care last until
> the next coaching regime.
> 
> I still say let's stay serenely calm and
> patient and treat this latest
> joke play as a mere coincidence until Pitino
> finally gets fired, just
> as  he squandered Fortson's 11.6 pure-guts
> rebounds per game in order to
> emphatically prove a point that his monkey
> outbreak was simply the worst
> defensive system in the league, and further
> demonstrate that it was
> progressively even more hopeless as NBA
> veterans became familiar with
> it.
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