Re: Rogers not going to Nets (Yes he is)

[Kim Malo <kimmalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:35 AM 8/14/02 -0400, Tammo29@AOL.com wrote:
>  Ouch!  This is a huge blow.  I wonder why none of the national Internet
> publications have reported this yet since the rumors have been rampant for a
> few days now?
Not important enough to the hoops world at large perhaps, no matter how 
it's viewed here?
Especially as y'know I keep thinking that there HAS to be something I'm 
missing about Rodney when I read comments like the above. I mean, I liked 
Rodney and would have liked to keep him (probably more than I like keeping 
Walter). And I agree that he contributed something we needed badly at the 
time -especially with Pot going down and leaving Battie the only useful 
bigman- that helped us get into the playoffs and continue as far as we did 
through them.

But huge blow? This makes him sound irreplacable. When what I saw was an 
undersized but willing banger who spent too much time outside the paint and 
was clearly too often a step slow in responding defensively, to loose 
balls, and to rebounds that didn't fall into his hands. While taking way 
too many outside shots - something we already had enough people doing. We 
won't even discuss some attempted  ballhandling, including some attempted 
end to ends that liven my nightmares. A few more things, but that's the 
basic idea. While he helped us get where we did, perhaps his limitations 
are part of why that was no further.

He's a good journeyman player. More someone who filled a need we had at the 
time as well as we could (which is not to say optimally) than an inherently 
huge blow. And other than the ongoing presence of Walker and Pierce our 
team has enough changed that he may not have fit in as well with this 
year's. While on paper, yeah, it looks like he makes NJ's bench better, I 
go back to his slowness in reacting vs their young legs and kind of wonder 
how true this is. Guess we'll see the results.

Kim