Re: you never know

[David A Wickerham <aw623@freenet.buffalo.edu>]

I think our two drafrt picks have natural nicknames:

Moiso becomes Moesha
and
Sipay becomes Kaiser Sozee

I particularly like Moesha after hearing Cous buther the name when he was
doing promos for Fox 25

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Joe Hironaka wrote:

>     But one thing for sure is I'm usually dead wrong in my first impression
> with uncanny accuracy, so in this sense the Moiso (eventual nickname: 'Zo II?)
> draft looks pretty great already. And based on my other comments, Marcus
> Viagra Pfizer and Keyon Drooling will also be NBA All Stars imminently.
> 
>     I think when Paul Pierce got drafted, my actual first impression was along
> the lines of "there MUST be a reason he fell this far" and "isn't he a 6-6
> tweener big forward from the land of Toto?"  And I was truly outraged that
> Pitino would even entertain the idea of trading our entire 1997 draft to
> rebuild around a 30-something guy like Scottie Pippen. And I thought Tim
> Duncan would be no better as a rookie savior than Marcus Camby the year
> before. I didn't think Larry Bird could or should be a coaching candidate for
> the Celtics other than as a publicity stunt for the guy he would replace, ML
> Carr. And last but not least, I thought signing Rick Pitino was the greatest
> coup in history. Doh!
> 
>     I don't know about you, but I'm starting to get pumped about next season.
> :-) You're absolutely right. Time will tell. It could all finally start to
> gell.
> 
> ****
> 
> "Berry, Mark S" wrote:
> 
> > Today I'm thanking my lucky stars that Portland turned down three No. 1
> > picks for Jermaine O'Neal, but three years from now, who knows? Jermaine
> > O'Neal may turn into Rasheed Wallace without the 'tude, Moiso could be a
> > bust and our picks the next couple of years could amount to nothing.
> > Remember when we all were furious that Pitino was considering trading 3&6
> > for Pippen? Would have been a good deal in hindsight. Then he was offering
> > Mercer and 10 for Olowokandi, which I completely endorsed at the time, but
> > as it turns out, it would have cost us Pierce for a project.
> >
> > The point is, we just don't know. Time will tell.
> >
> > Mark
> 
> 

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