Re: Tony Parker...

["j.hironaka" <j.hironaka@unesco.org>]

         Thanks for this info. If he's grown to 6-2 I'll feel a bit better 
about him at #21. I'm still not sure Boston really needs to reach this far 
out for a PG, in a draft that is rich at the other positions.

         Regarding the 2000 Nike Hoop Summit that every scouting report 
refers to, Tony Parker (30 minutes, 6-11FG, 20 points, 7 assists, 3 TOs) 
did in fact go head-to-head with top NBA draft rival Omar Cook (22 minutes, 
4-6FG, 14 points and 6 assists, 4 TOs). It is hard to draw any conclusions.

         One thing you can say for Parker, he faced wave after wave of 
McDonald's All American point guards and held his own. Chris Duhon came up 
with 13 points, 6 assists and 2 turnovers. Andre Brown (1-5) and Michigan 
State's Marcus Taylor (5-13) also played.

         This was only one game, and far from conclusive in terms of the 
result (compared to Nowitzki's superb Hoop Summit coming out party), but 
Tony Parker's team held it's own despite having its best known players 
dropped from the team at the last minute (Kirilenko and Yao Ming). This was 
Olumide Oyedeji's finest hour (25 points, 13 rebounds). Zach Randolph and 
Darius Miles poured in 46 points and 16 boards for Team USA.

         I'm sure Moiso is sitting somewhere  on the French Riviera beach 
hoping "Mini-Me" gets selected by Boston, so he can have someone to sit 
next to on the bench to crack Dubya jokes in French and reminisce about how 
cool Mickey Rourke was. ;-)

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At 10:27 27/06/01 +0800, Jaims wrote:
>Tony Parker Draft Capsule
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>Tony Parker, 6-2, 177, France =============================
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>OVERVIEW: Parker averaged 14.7 points, 5.6 assists and 33.0 minutes per game
>for the top-level Paris Basket Racing team. Had 168 assists and 66
>turnovers, a better than 2.5-to-1 ratio. He was a member of the French
>Junior National Team, which won the gold medal at the 2000 European Junior
>Championships. He also played at the 2000 Nike Hoop Summit with the World
>Selection and in the 2001 French League All-Star Game.