Re: Mavs game/CW question

[Ellie Cutler <ellie@oreilly.com>]

At 10:58 PM 2/21/2002 , bird wrote:
>Nuts.  Kind of the opposite of the Laker game: played well but not well 
>enough to put it away for 43 minutes, then couldn't make a shot.
>
>League Pass'ers got the Dallas broadcast but could see Chris Wallace 
>sitting between Tommy and Mike Gorman.  Was anything interesting said?
>
>Bird

Mostly the kind of stuff that he said in Josh's interview - talking about 
how salary management has become such a big part of things. He did talk 
about foreign players and said their big guys are now more 
skilled/developed than the US big kids. And the label of soft doesn't fit 
anymore (certainly not looking at Nowitzki and Eduardo N.).  He thought the 
day wasn't far off when we'd see a foreign player go #1 in the draft 
(though not next year, with a certain guard that plays for a blue team 
coming out).

Gorman did relay his favorite Tony Delk story: that of all the KY recruits, 
Delk was the only one who made his bed.  Says a bit about the kid, IMO.

This team needs a backup for Anderson. Is Delk is enough of a PG for that? 
Anybody seen him play that position?  Get Omar Cook and give him a shot! 
Kenny and Antoine were were in absolute slo-mo exactly when they needed to 
put the pedal to the metal.  I was yelling at them, Heinsohn was yelling at 
them, everybody but OB was yelling at them.   You could have put Cook out 
there with Kedrick, Pierce, McCarty and Battie and run the pants off of the 
Mavs.  Isn't Nowitzki something else? Ho-ly!

They showed the trio of ex-Nuggets in the stands, and Van Exel looked like 
one unhappy camper. What does he think watching Nash?  Although knowing 
Nelson, he will play the two of them at the same time a fair amount to get 
VE's shooting in there.

It's fun to get to see the western conf. teams and I wish we saw more of 
them.  They're eons more entertaining than the Knicks and Miami...

  --Ellie