Re: Kenny missed

["Simon Kean" <simon@jkean.freeserve.co.uk>]

True to this team's consistently frustrating form, I wouldn't be surprised
if they thump Philly by 20.

Simon


----- Original Message -----

> 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.
> >
> >Let me repeat these words of wisdom from John.
> >
> >>>We suck in the post and have for years.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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?
> >
> >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.
> >
> >32 wins guys. This team is "perhaps" better around the
> >edges....maybe....but it just doesn't make any difference.
> >
> >Paul M.
> >
> >
> >
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