RE: Antoine needs new moves and more finesse

[OzerskyJA <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>]

Sorry.  I didn't mean to insult you, but you obviously don't know what
you're talking about.  Antoine's ability to score on the box is a matter of 
fact.  He does get swatted a lot, but that doesn't change the reality of it.
There's very few players league that can handle him one-on-one down 
there, and almost no traditional power forwards.  (converted centers like
Duncan and KG can handle him, but even they get scored on as much as
they stop him.)  Antoine's not an efficient scorer down there because he 
doesn't have any lift to speak of and can't finish above the rim.  But he's
one of the premier low-post offensive players in the conference.  Period.

Josh Ozersky	
Marketing Communications Specialist 
Corning Museum of Glass

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	jeff_chin@notes.teradyne.com [SMTP:jeff_chin@notes.teradyne.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 25, 2001 10:27 AM
> To:	OzerskyJA
> Cc:	Celtics@Igtc.Com
> Subject:	RE: Antoine needs new moves and more finesse
> 
> 
> Please don't insult me by assuming I get any ideas from that biased old
> bat
> Heinson who thinks every move by other team is a travel and that vitaly
> never commits a flagrant foul.  In fact I think that your belief in
> antoine
> being "acknowledged" as one of the toughest ppl to guard down low is
> ludicrous and probably taken from Heinsohn.  Antoine is no doubt the most
> swatted player in NBA history.  Guys love to guard him to pad their stats.
> Toine should play down low, but just to get rebounds cuz vitaly gets
> killed
> down there by guys 6 inches shorter than him.  I didn't say antoine gets
> any love from the refs.  They just merely tolerate him enough not to call
> his cheap moves an offensive foul.