Re: Clanks (I Mean Banks) Nigh Useless Against New Jersey

["Gregg Allen" <gr_allen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, Ray, I'm thinking like you.  We might as well just bench Banks for all
the Nets games.  Walker too.  In fact, since we know we're going to lose
those games anyway, why don't we just treat them as garbage time and give
our starters a rest.  Give the end of the bench boys the minutes.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Way Of The Ray" <wayray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <celtics@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 2:10 PM
Subject: Clanks (I Mean Banks) Nigh Useless Against New Jersey


> While it looks like ol' Marcus Garvey Banks will be a solid NBA point
> guard, in the mode of a huskier Mookie Blaylock or a shorter,
> poorer-shooting Baron Davis, his upcoming play against the Nets will not
>
> be anything to write home about or even email.
>
> He simply doesn't match up well against the Nets.
>
> Where do I begin.
>
> Well, right to the point with Jason Kidd.  Banks is simply too small to
> have much of
> a defensive impact against Kidd. We  had a preview of this defeciency
> during the Summer League, where Banks was outplayed (severely at times)
> by the three big PGs he faced: James, Salmons, and Planinic. If the
> immortal
> John Salmans can light you up, we can only shudder at what Kidd is going
> to
> do to Banks.
>
> The next case of the Banks' nasties deals with New Jersey's ability to
> prevent his
> penetration (a word we're hearing a lot these days due to the Kobe's
> contretemps).
> New Jersey will simply zone him out to the perimeter, play off him, clog
> the paint, stop
> his penetration, and force Banks to his weakest link: hitting outside
> shots. And
> that is not a good Walkeresque thing!
>
> Lastly, Banks ability to transform the Celtics into a running team, will
> be severely
> curtailed against the Nets. You can't run, if you can't rebound, and the
> Nets are
> far superior to the Celtics in that regard, and should even be better
> this season
> with the additions of Mourning and Euro-Kidd Planinic, who has terrific
> rebounding
> ability. For the Celtics, their rebounding hopes center on a
> healthy-for-the-first-time-
> in-a-long-while Battie, a fully recovered Baker, and  Brandon Hunter,
> who will have to
> either be liberated from the IR or the bench, his home for the near
> future, until the
> Walke/Baker situation is settled.
> Ray