RE: Low post

[OzerskyJA <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>]

Without any disrespect to Kevin, I'll take Wilt Chamberlain
on the block, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar after that.  But he's
definitely number three.  There are a bunch of guys tied at four 
behind him (Hakeem, Moses, Michael, Tim Duncan, Shaq, and
probably some of the greats from back in the day).

Josh Ozersky	
Marketing Communications Specialist 
Corning Museum of Glass

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Roy Enrile [SMTP:renrile@qualcomm.com]
> Sent:	Friday, March 16, 2001 2:14 PM
> To:	celtics@igtc.com
> Subject:	Re: Low post
> 
> 
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 Douglas342@aol.com wrote:
> 
> > It has a fine Celtics slant by starting out hailing Kevin 
> > McHale as perhaps the finest low post player in the history of the
> league.  
> 
> It should say "DEFINITELY the finest low post player in the history of
> the league."   Malone is not close.
> 
> But the article is right.  I can think of few post players
> today that have old school form and were as effective or better than post
> players were, in other eras.
> Shaq
> Rasheed
> Duncan
> Smits, Baker (when they were young)
> 
> 
> P.S.  Antoine wasn't too shabby in the post against Phoenix, but alot of
> his postmoves end with playground style shots, that would be low
> percentage for most players (like the spinmove across the lane against
> Gugliotta, that got transformed into a no look reverse layup).