Re: no love from DA

[Celtic4Hire@xxxxxxx]

I would agree with you in principle but not it this case. I wasn't on board 
on the Atlanta rejuvenation but they didn't have a superstar there when they 
added Dog. They just had a bunch of good players. Iverson is a true superstar. 
Their problem has been that they played great defense but no one could score 
except for Iverson or if McKie got hot. He is going to feel like he has been 
released from jail getting out from under Brown's thumb and also with some of the 
offensive focus taken off of him and onto Dog. But the kicker is this John 
Salmons kid. This boy can play and they got great offensive punch from the 1,2 
and 3 spots....

DJessen33


> <Another thing I would add to this discussion is that people tend to 
> overuse the
> heuristic of checking where the "name" players (usually, scorers) ended up 
> and
> then judging teams "on paper" based on how many "name" players they've added 
> or
> lost. A good recent example of this is predicting great things for the 
> Atlanta
> Hawks because they had put a nice "name" lineup on paper. We all know what
> happened to that prediction. People tend to be impressed by the likes of 
> Glen
> Robinson, but not no-names like Greg Buckner, George Lynch, or Kenny Thomas.
> But I bet the latter are more important to a team's success than the former.
> We're seeing the same thing again with the Sixers ("now that they've added 
> the
> Big Dog to help AI score, they're gonna be tough"), Orlando, Minnesota, and 
> of
> course, the Lakers. But it's fantasy league stuff. No one knows how well 
> they
> will play as a team, no matter how loaded with superstars that lineup is 
> (viz.
> the USA World Championships '02 team). 
> Kestas>