Re: Antoine Walker/Draft

[HMURDOCH@AOL.com]

Alleluia!  The description of the type of player we need to draft is right 
on!  We have enough ballet dancers - we need a Vitally with some athleticism 
- not more Waltahs and poodle-boys.  Not that I have anything against them, 
they seem like nice fellows, but gaaaahh!  Enough is enough.  If I remember 
right, even Kevin McHale hung a closeline on someone at least once.  I'm' not 
advocating dirty play (really), but we could use a little toughness and 
players who really want to get the ball.

In a message dated 6/23/01 12:39:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
callmebogie@yahoo.com writes:

<< I will repeat my plea to Messrs. Wallace and Papile -- PLEASE GET SOME
 INTERIOR HELP.  I see the name "Pau Gasol" and I hear Walt Frazier making
 gleeful (and for once, linguistically appropriate) references to "matador
 D".  I see the Cs getting outrebounded game after game down the stretch
 last year.  Height is nice.  Wingspan is nice.  Hops are nice.  But
 doesn't Walter McCarty have all of those?  Give me a Paul Silas.  Give me
 a Dennis Rodman (minus the non-basketball related psychosis).  Give me a
 Jerome Williams, or anyone else who merits a nickname like "Junkyard Dog".
  Give me a mean-ass SOB who'd elbow his little sister in the chops to grab
 an offensive rebound and clothesline his mother before giving up a layup. 
 Let's use this draft -- or at least 2/3 of it -- to get tougher. 
 
 Michael Gooen  >>