RE: Poor man's Vince Carter?

[OzerskyJA <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>]

That's how I'm thinking of it...the difference is 
that Carter was a very fundamentally sound player
coming out of Carolina (as is Forte).  But Brown
can learn on the job and in practice for a year;

-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Enrile [mailto:renrile@qualcomm.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 2:25 PM
To: celtics@igtc.com
Subject: Poor man's Vince Carter?



I can see why Papile would make the comparison.  The 45 inch vertical
report doesn't seem to be an exaggeration.  For one of Brown's dunks, he
made the steal took off fairly early, reversed jammed it, and did a major
duck of the head to avoid the rim and the bottom of the backboard after
that.  He looked pretty loose doing it like it's a normal thing.

What if this has been a future Penny Hardaway, Vince Carter, Cutino Mobley
type of talent infusion?

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Berry, Mark  S wrote:

> 
>  By the way, a poster on the ESPN message board relayed a Papile interview
> on WEEI this morning. Did anyone else hear it? Apparently Papile said
> Kedrick Brown would have been a top-four pick next year and compared him
to
> Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady. Wow! 
>