Re:

["John Lyell" <johnlyell@hotmail.com>]

Troy Bell would be an awesome addition, but I am not sure we need 4 kids
with 1 year or less of experience or if there is enough ball to go around.

.


----- Original Message -----
From: "j.hironaka" <j.hironaka@unesco.org>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 5:06 AM


> Regarding Chris Wallace's phone call to Josh O. noting that next year
looks
> to be a point guard draft, I guess the players to watch and compare in US
> colleges this season are:
>
> Jason Williams 6-2 190, Duke Junior
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Dajuan Wagner 6-2 180, Memphis Freshman
> Troy Bell 6-1 171, Boston College Junior
> Brett Nelson 6-3 185, Florida Junior
> Maurice Baker 6-1 175, Oklahoma St. Senior.
> Frank Williams 6-3 173 Illinois Junior
> Juan Dixon 6-3 160, Maryland Senior
> Tito Maddox 6-4 190, Fresno St. Sophomore
> Dan Dickau 6-0 170, Gonzaga Senior
>
>
> Jason WIlliams is clearly in a different category as one of the most
> watched college lead guards in history (like an Isiah Thomas or Phil
Ford).
>
> The most recent point guard rich NBA draft class was in 1999, when Steve
> Francis and Baron Davis went #2 and #3 ahead of Lamar Odom, followed by
> Andre Miller and Jason Terry both in the top ten.
>
> In retrospect, William Avery made a wise financial decision by declaring
> early into that deep point guard draft. Although he's been a bust since
> getting picked 14th overall by the T-wolves, had Avery stayed an
additional
> year at Duke it might have been spent on the bench watching Jason
Williams.
> Who knows, maybe they actually had an occasion to go one-on-one in a
campus
> recruiting visit, and Avery could already see the writing on the wall. A
> lot of people were surprised to see him leave Duke so early.
>
> I remember hearing a similar story about a campus visit to tiny Gonzaga by
> (I think) Mark Price, where he ended up getting schooled one-on-one by
some
> nobody named John Stockton and started to wonder if all Division I players
> were also that good.
>
> ***