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Re:Josip Sesar

John Lyell wrote:
What is up with Sesar ? When can we expect to see him ?
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: W
  To: Celtic Pride
  Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 8:24 PM
  Subject: [Celtic_Pride] Josip Sesar

  Hey all,

  Was fortunate enough to catch an international game which had Josip
  Sesar in it.

  Boy can he flat out play. Solid athlete, big, strong, great hands and
  man, his shooting makes Stojakovic and Nowitzki's look second rate for
  euro shooters.

  He hit something like 22 points, had around 6/7 assists. Reminded me a
  bit of a bigger Steve Nash.

  Warwick


    I guess the big story this year is the 23-year-old Peja Stojakovic, averaging 21 points on .484 shooting and 6.4 boards for the Kings. He ranks in the NBA top twenty in five categories, including steals (1.7) and 3-point FG%. So far he's better across the board compared to Van Horn (19.2 ppg) or Croshere (11.9 ppg on a miserable .342FG%) or Nowitzki (17ppg on a .429FG%), all of whom are well-paid and better known.

    Of course Peja is Yugoslavian, whereas Sesar is a Croat, but at least they come from the same basketball hotbed (call it "the Indiana and Kentucky of the Balkans"). Anyway, Peja was drafted 14th overall in 1996, which has become by far the most talented and deepest NBA draft since maybe 1984. We're talking about a top of the draft that includes players like Iverson,  Kobe, Shareef, Marbury, Ray Allen and Antoine Walker along with Marcus Camby, Jermaine O'Neil, Zydrunas Ilgauskus, Jerome Williams,  Kerry Kittles, Derek Fisher, Steve Nash, Erick Dampier and Lorenzen Wright.

    If you told someone circa 1997 that six players from that monster draft would eventually be acquired by Pitino's Boston Celtics, we'd all be buying playoff tickets by now. Unfortunately, those six players (besides Antoine) turned out to be Waltah, Dontae Jones, Roy Rogers, Travis Knight and Vitaly. Doh! I hope we don't mess it up this summer with our multiple draft picks, in what has the makings of a very similar draft in terms of a wave of talented underclassmen plus a few established All Americans who for once stayed in school.

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