Re: Rebounding woes

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ouch!!!!

DanF
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Delevett" <pdelevett@yahoo.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 1:08 PM
Subject: Rebounding woes


> Well, there's no escaping what's now a very ugly
> trend: the Celtics are going to get killed, mashed,
> mauled on the boards, which as somebody noted will
> make it nearly impossible for them to run as Obie
> wants.
> 
> The guys we gave up from last season - Rogers, Vitaly,
> Strickland, Kenny and Blount - tallied 16.6 rpg. Their
> replacements - Baker, SHUNdov, Bremer, Williams and
> Willy Wonka  - totaled 8.7 last year, and all but 2.3
> of those were from Baker (Shammond Williams actually
> outrebounded Bruno). Wacky Wally, all 6'9 of him, has
> an NBA career rebounding average of 1.4. Bremer hauled
> in 4.7 rpg his senior year at St Bonaventure, if
> anybody wants to get excited about that. Of course,
> most of the guys he was playing against are now
> first-year paralegals.
> 
> And I'm just looking at pure rebounding numbers here,
> not the ways the ex-Celtics helped boost team
> rebounding by doing things like blocking out.    
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