Re: With Clanks and Perktross, Red Flags and Ainge Roast

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Way out, you better stop or I hear you can go
blind...............................

DanF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Way Of The Ray" <wayray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <celtics@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 11:07 AM
Subject: With Clanks and Perktross, Red Flags and Ainge Roast


> A week has passed and still the Celtics draft bewilders.
>
> But let's look towards the future.
>
> The 2004 playoffs to be exact. It's the Nets against the Celtics once
> anew and
> it's a re-signed Jason Kidd versus the Celtics very own Marcus Clanks.
>
> Due to the Nets continued rebounding and defensive advantage,
> the Celtics have been onced again forced into a half-court game,
> with Pierce doubled, Walker singled, and the ball kicked out
> on the perimeter to Banks, who can't penetrate as Kidd is playing off
> him and the Nets have the paint clogged.
>
> BANKS MUST SHOOT!
>
> CLANK!
>
> BANKS MUST SHOOT!
>
> CLANK!
>
> BANKS MUST SHOOT!
>
> CLANK!
>
> Meanwhile back in the present, Dick Vitale who never badmouths college
> hoopsters
> (foreign players aren't so lucky) and would say nice things about Jack
> the Ripper
> if he played for Tark the Shark at Fresno Reformatory State has blasted
> Marcus Banks with words to the effect that he has no perimeter game!
>
> RED FLAG ALERT!
>
>
> And then there's Kendrick Perkins, who Leo Papile has gleefully told us
> would
> be the second pick in the upcoming draft or is it the third?  Whatever
> the case,
> anytime Leo makes such a pronouncement:
>
> RED FLAG ALERT!
>
> It's not that Perkins will be a bad player, it's just, that he's likely
> to be an average player,
> as he's undersized for center and lacks the nimbleness of the Shaq's and
> Curry's
> and the quickness of the hybrid C/PFs like Duncan and Milicic.  And
> while it's nice that he
> has long arms, unfortunately, so do most of the other NBA Big Men and
> they're all
> taller than he is.  His biggest saving grace is that he has excellent
> low post moves
> and perhaps can be a low post option on offense. And perhaps he might
> grow.
>
> But this past draft seems similar to the O'Brien extension.  In two
> years time,
> Ainge will dump O'Brien and may do the same with these draft choices.
> Ray