Re: Kenny missed

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

Time to break em up, and start all over again. Of course with a new coach
and direction. We have 2 players, Pierce and Walker. What's the solution?
How do we break the team up? Are we stuck with Pots and Battie? Side note:
I never saw a player with Batman's physical ability come along so slowly.
He's just completely lost. Will we break the Philly Express. I doubt it.
Here we go 2-4.

Dan

At 10:46 AM 11/11/00 -0900, you wrote:
>>We suck in the post and have for years.
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>Let me repeat these words of wisdom from John.
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>>>We suck in the post and have for years.
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>Everybody wants to know how anybody on list could pick this team to win
>fewer games this year than last? "We suck in the post and have for years."
>If this team can't stop semi-half-assed players from dominating inside,
>from 3-5 feet, they'll continue to lose more than they win. Semi-half-assed
>big men have been killing this team for years. They continually have
>"all-star" caliber games against the Celtics. Add a few real all-stars like
>Allan Houston and you get close losses, blowouts, and "moral victories"
>more than you'd like. Pots...Battie...Blount....just miserable. But they
>aren't the only ones.
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>I know it sounds way too simple and obvious, but sometimes the problem is
>just that. Everybody loves Adrian Griffin because he does all the little
>things well. The problem is that this team simply needs more players who do
>the "bigger" things well. I know...I'm an f'n genius. But a guy like Adrian
>Griffin is the problem. It's not his fault that he's just another player
>with very limited NBA skills on a team full of players with very limited
>NBA skills, but he is. Everybody likes him...he works hard...he's a nice
>guy...he's nice to his mother...but who cares? On a good/decent team he
>helps to make a difference in the win column "sometimes," and that's giving
>him the benefit of the doubt. But he still plays very limited minutes and
>gets a whole lot more DNPCD's. In fact, 10 out of 12 of these guys play
>very, very limited minutes every now and then on a decent playoff caliber
>NBA team, or simply get waived after a laughable workout. You can mix and
>match them any way you want; you can shuffle them in and out of the lineup
>any way you want; you can put them into whatever defensive or offensive
>schemes you want. It doesn't matter becasue 10 out of 12 guys simply have
>limited NBA skills and that's not going to change. And I'm including Kenny
>in that group of 10. Sure he's better than Brown and Brunson. Wow. This
>team is a 30-something win team with Kenny, just as they're a 30-something
>win team with Griffin, just as they're a 30-something win team with Herren
>at the point. All half-assed. Perhaps Herren at least brings a little
>energy to this half-assed lineup and they finish in the high 30's. "Way"
>thinks you tank and hope for a wildly talented "big kid" in the draft.
>Perhaps. Maybe you trade VP and Battie and Anderson and Griffin and any of
>the mediocre ten for a real player or players. I'm beginning to think that
>if that was possible it would've been done long ago. I just don't think any
>of those guys has any trade value even if all you want out of the deal is a
>first round draft pick. And if you're actually looking for a player with
>more than limited NBA skills, that is, if you're looking for more than a
>half-assed NBA talent who can make a difference, especially a big
>man....that gm that just hung up on you is still laughing weeks later.
>Ricky has three assets: Walker, Pierce, and draft picks. Everything else is
>worthless. Garbage in, garbage out.
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>It's not "The Punk's" fault this year. It's not Pierce's fault. I don't
>even believe it's "Ricky the Coach's" fault. Ricky the gm?
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>So how do you pick 32 wins when "this team is obviously more talented" this
>year? Here's how: The first time they go on a 5-6-7-8-? game losing streak
>Pitino starts talking about leaving, starts laying into his only two NBA
>players in the Herald and Globe, especially "The Punk," and the team calls
>it a season. Either that or he panics and trades either Walker or Pierce
>and gets taken for a ride because every gm realizes he's desperate....not
>to mention that he's been in way over his head as a gm from day 1. In any
>case...the time to move any of his real assets for anything that would've
>helped this year has come and gone.
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>32 wins guys. This team is "perhaps" better around the
>edges....maybe....but it just doesn't make any difference.
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>Paul M.
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