Re: Kenny vs Milt

["I am. . . Anonymous" <ktoreed@yahoo.com>]

What is your obsession with Jacque Vaughn?  The guy's
done nothing his entire career.  He hasn't even shown
much promise.  You ever see him play with the Jazz?

He dribbles with his head down, melts under defensive
pressure, is a below-average shooter, has trouble
finishing, and doesn't show great court vision. There
is no better situation for a young point guard than to
be under Stockton in the Jazz system, and the guy has
shown nothing, which is why the Jazz neglected to show
interest in his returning to the team.

He's "Milt Palacio lite", except more expensive.

Here's his stats last season:
20 Minutes per game, 4 assists, 1.6 Turnovers, 1
rebound, 6 points a game on 43% shooting.



--- Jim Metz <JBMetzEA@AOL.com> wrote:
> on 8/21/01 8:23 PM, Celtic4Hire@AOL.com at
> Celtic4Hire@AOL.com wrote:
> 
> JB,
> I think you forgot what Palacio's main function was
> last year. His job was
> to
> bring up the ball when there was heavy pressure,
> play defense and get the
> ball to the other end as fast as possible during the
> break. He did all those
> things very well. All of the offense started and ran
> through Walker except
> for an occasional pick and pop with VP. These small
> point guards you are in
> love with get killed on defense. Have you forgotten
> Dana and the Munchkins
> so
> soon. Kenny, although taller, still gets whipped
> regularly. Would I love to
> have Payton or Kidd, absolutely. However, note that
> both guys are also very
> physical and 6-5ish. Get one of these smallish "true
> point guards" and
> during
> the season, you would be crying a point who can play
> some D. What is the
> point in having one of these "true" point guards
> when most of the offense
> will run through Walker anyways? JJ adds additional
> flexibility. At this
> point, I think the greater need is to have a point
> guard who plays solid
> D....As for the Shaw league, I though Palacio seemed
> to be looking for his
> offense too much, but that is what he needed to be
> working on. When the real
> season starts, he will be flipping the ball over to
> Walker again once he
> gets
> past half court. Palacio is not a distributor, that
> is obvious. But that is
> not our greatest need...
> 
> DJessen33
>         ******************
>    DJ;
>        These "small" point guards, I am "in love
> with" is a bit of a
> generalization, although I admit, there are some
> matchup problems when a
> player is under 6'2" in todays league, but just
> because a player is short,
> does not mean he can't play defense.
>    When I wrote about "true" point guards, I did not
> mean players like Dana
> Barros, who is a shooting guard, who was forced to
> play point, because he
> was too short to guard the shooting guards. There
> are many of these in the
> league. There are also players like Sam Cassell and
> Kenny Anderson who don't
> like to play defense, but that is another story.
>    I am talking about players like Jaques Vaughn,
> who is a very good
> defender. It was apparent that Khalid El-Amine made
> the team better, when he
> was on the floor at Shaws. In my opinion, even Tyus
> Edney, made us a better
> team, when he played here. I'm not saying that if a
> player is a defensive
> liability, in certain matchups, that he has to play
> 48 minutes, but a point
> guard; who pushes the ball and finds the open man is
> an asset, that we don't
> have, but for short money, should take a look at.
>    You mention; "running the offense through Walker
> again. To me that is a
> call of last resort. I'm not sure I could, or would,
> watch another season of
> that. To me it's sickening to have our best
> rebounder and our only low post
> threat, stretching and learing towards the ball from
> the three point line,
> as soon as the point guard crosses half court. How
> to kill an offensive flow
> in one easy lesson.
>    Joe Johnson is potentialy a point guard. He
> played there as a youngster,
> until he grew 8 inches in the 9th grade. Here is
> where my hope for the
> future at point guard is. Antoine needs to be shown
> a bit of coaching, this
> year. I hope O'Brien is up to it.
>    
>        
> -JB-
> 
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