Re: more great news from moody...

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

Bummer I thought we could get Vlad at 21, not the word is out and we have to
take him at 10 or 11 if he's there.  I think we really need to move up.
Maybe all the smoke on Gasol was really to get Radmanovic ?

John


----- Original Message -----
From: "OzerskyJA" <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 6:23 AM
Subject: more great news from moody...


> NBATalk says that there's ANOTHER "next Nowitski," a big russian whom his
> coach
> (who also coached Gasol and Dirk) says is even more ready -- AND he
doesn't
> have a
> big buyout problem.  This guy could well jump into the top ten if what
they
> say is true;
> which is good news for us anyway you cut it.  According to the article, we
> have scheduled
> a workout with him for next week.  I love moody week!
>
>
> Is Vladimir Radmanovic the Next Dirk Nowitzki?
> More than 100 scouts and GMs packed into Hoops gym in downtown Chicago
> yesterday afternoon to see the private workouts of Alabama freshman Gerald
> Wallace and Stanford sophomore Jason Collins. However it was the third
> wheel, Vladimir Radmanovic who stole the show. The 6-10 Yugoslavian put on
a
> dazzling show of shooting and ball handling that had teams buzzing by the
> end of the 60 minute workout. Radmanovic is the latest "hot prospect" in
the
> draft. He has the size and body to play power forward and the shooting
range
> and ball handling skills to play shooting guard. We know what you are
> thinking and scouts were saying it by the end of the workout -- could
> Radmanovic be the next Dirk Nowitzki?
> Radmanovic's Nike Hoop Summit coach, Marin Sedlacek, seems to think so.
> Sedlacek is probably the only person on the planet to have coached
Nowitzki,
> Radmanovic and the other hot European prospect Pau Gasol. Sedlacek told
> sportsTALK that Radmonovic is the best of the three at this stage. "He's
> more ready for the NBA than Nowitzki or Gasol. He's stronger than Dirk was
> when he entered the NBA. He can be just as special."
> Sedlacek told sportsTALK that Radmonovic has already had strong workouts
in
> Houston and Seattle and has workouts scheduled with Boston, Cleveland and
> New Jersey after the camp. His workout was so strong in Seattle, the
Sonics
> invited him back for another right before the draft. Sedlacek said
> Radmanovic decided not to play in the pre-draft camp after strong feedback
> from Houston and Seattle. Unlike Gasol, and Greek big man Jake Tsakalidis
> last year, Radmonovic does not have a huge buyout on his contract.
According
> to his agent, David Bauman of SFX, teams will only need to pony up
$300,000
> to get Radmonovic out of his contract. Given his strong workout yesterday,
> expect teams to be knocking on his door by the end of the week.
> Sedlacek also had a few words of caution for teams on the Pau Gasol
> bandwagon. "Gasol will be a good player, but he's not physically ready to
> play in the NBA. In Spain he was a five, but in the NBA he'll have to make
a
> transition to the three or four. He could use some more time in Europe"
> The spotlight was supposed to be on Collins and Wallace. Collins also had
a
> strong workout and showed a lot of range on his jumper. But his lack of
> athleticism and jumping ability was in stark contrast to Wallace, who was
> jumping out of the gym. The knock on Wallace coming into the workout was
> that he couldn't hit a jumper. Today was no different. Wallace even had
> difficulty knocking down 10 footers. The only shots Wallace was getting to
> fall were the dunks (however he even shanked one of those) which prompted
> one scout to quip, "You know who the best rebounder in Chicago is? The
> trainer chasing all of Wallace's missed shots."
> After the workout Wallace told sportsTALK that despite some negative
> reviews, he's sticking with the draft
>
>