Re: Could an all world team compete?

[Roy Enrile <renrile@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You're right, an Intl allstar/pickup team would also
play below their talent level, and the other teams beat the U.S. mostly
because of greater playing time together.

Also, that's probably a factor why Kenny/Battie/Pierce/Antoine finally 
were beating up on even Western teams, and why teams that get
old together(90's Pacers) play gorgeous basketball.  

So I expect the current Celts to take a step back for a year or more while
learning timing/tendencies.  But after that, they might surpass last years
team since Baker is a superior talent (and same age) as Rodgers.
(Rodney at his best, never came close to playing a 20/10 season, or
commanding a 40-70million dollar salary).  And Shammond/Delk can do the
"Steve Kerr" thing as well as Kenny did.


On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, hironaka@nomade.fr wrote:

> 
> But what I originally wrote, or THINK I wrote ;-), was 
> that if you took the All Tourney rest-of-the-world team 
> and formed a pick-up team, they shouldn't be expected to 
> play any better than what was a US "pick-up" team in 
> Indy.