Re: Should Antoine Walker Be An All-Star?

[William Lee <leew@wadsworth.org>]

I am not sure what the point is.  Are you saying that the East should only 
play 4 players since there is no one worthy of playing the PF spot?  Or 
should the West donate one or two of its 6 better guys to help the East 
out?  What is your solution  or what is your point?


Bill

At 01:14 PM 1/30/2002 -0500, guess who wrote:
>Antoine Walker doesn't have many peers in the East and I mean that in a
>negative
>light. While fellow All-Star -- and deservedly so -- Paul Pierce has to
>face
>the likes of Jordan, Carter, McGrady, Allen, Sprewell, Jalen Rose, and
>E. Jones nightly, Walker's task is much easier in an Eastern Conference
>bereft of quality power forwards.
>
>Sure there's Shareef (who's outplayed Toine in the games they met) and
>Mason (who's also outplayed Toine), and Coleman (call it a draw), and a
>few more, but they're not of the same quality as the Eastern
>Conference's
>Big Time shooting guards and small forwards. The East is the land of the
>
>great perimeter players.
>
>The West meanwhile dominates at the power positions of Center and
>Power Forward.  And is it any wonder why the West is far superior to
>the East....
>
>  Stick Antoine out West, and he's the seventh or eighth best
>power forward in the conference, falling behind Duncan, Garnett,
>Webber, Wallace, Malone, McDyess, Brand, and add in the
>names of the Great Gazoo and Eddie Griffin next season.
>
>Walker playing out west receives zero All-Star consideration, as there's
>simply
>a lot more better players playing the same position. Pierce on the other
>hand,
>is an All-Star in the East, West, North, and South, and if you toss him
>out on
>the Antarctica Ice Flows with a bunch of Emperor Penguins, he's an All
>Star there
>too.
>Ray