Re: Brandon Hunter...Egg response

[GuyClinch@xxxxxxx]

Egg wrote:

> Pete - I am not sure which of us is the most ''stupid''  - you for singing 
> such an optimistic tune, or me for feeling the necessity to turn off 
> the radio. 

What optomistic tune?
I got my measurements from the NBA predraft camp. The guy is 6' 7.75" 
That's 6'8" NBA style.

Note this paragraph below...
> 
> < Your selling the guy short.. He is 6.6.5" without shoes according the 
> Chicago predraft. That means he is 6'8" in shoes..(the always round up in 
> the NBA). The guy also has a great wingspan and good standing reach. 
> Those stats are way more important then height.> - Pete

Your selling him short..
In otherwords he is taller then 6'6"..and has the length sufficent to play 
the position.



> 
> Have you actually seen Hunter play?  Are you familiar with his 
> warts, or are you automatically taking the role of Celt loyalist?  

I didn't make any comment about Hunter's future..

> 
> Apples to oranges. Brand was drafted #1, Marion at #9.  Hunter was 
> drafted at #56.  How do you account for that? 
> 

I guess my whole post was lost on you..
Again..I was commenting that he wasn't too short to play the spot. <g>
That's all..nothing else. It was a simple straightforward post.

Read this paragraph again:

> 
> < The guy is certainly big enough to play the PF if Walker is. I wouldn't be 
> 
> surpised he actually had a longer standing reach then Walker who plays 
> shorter then he is, IMHO > - Pete



> 
> Now I am really on a roll.  Do you actually feel that Hunter, due to his 
> superior standing reach, has as good a shot as Walker to make the NBA?

Your on a roll?! Hmm. Its pretty easy to debate people..if your making up the 
things that they are saying. Heh.

 I never compared him to Barkley in talent level. I meant what I said..that 
Hunter is tall and long enough to play the position, and shouldn't be written 
of as too short. Get it? <g>

> 
> < Also with his hops..(I heard 38 wow) he could slot behind K. Brown to give 
> 
> us plus rebounding at that position and compensate for Walker's minus 
> rebounding.> - Pete
> 
> OK - 38 is impressive - but according to your above statement, you see
> Hunter as neither a PF nor impressive enough to even surge ahead of poor 
> Kedrick on our SF depth chart. 

I said could. It depends if he can play or not. <g>
Let me remind what I wrote before:


> 
> < Now it could turn out that he can't play...and this whole debate will be 
moot. > -Pete

> Barkley was one terrific player no matter what you wish his height 
> to be with or without shoes, reinforced peds, lifts, padded socks, or 
> stilts. Talent-wise, do you feel Hunter has Barkley potential?  Dumb 
> as you may feel this thinking to be - Hunter will never make our team
> due to the combination of roster limitations/Hunter limitations.  
> 

Umm no. I think it would be dumb to write him off as too short.
Isn't that what he said? <g> It would be a pleasant surpise if he makes the 
team, as most second rounders statistically do not. However <again> its dumb to 
write him off as too short.

 See what I wrote before:

> <Its a mistake to write this guy off because he is "too short". If he can 
> do the things on the court..that is what matters. AI is like 5'10"..and he 
> can play shooting guard. > - Pete



> 
> Even in 2nd-rate orchards there are always a certain amount of good 
> pluckins to eat despite the many more that are left to rot upon the ground.  
> 
> So fine - make your case for Hunter by citing the two best examples of 
> extraordinary players who have broken through the ''too short'' barrier.  
> And let Tyler cite untasted juicy fruit like Ginobili as being the exception 
> 
> to the ''left to rot upon the ground'' rule at #57. Name one other #57
> who has made the cut. <Egg>

I am not making any case. I was stating that other smaller players have done 
well.
So Brandon might make it. That's why we umm drafted him. 

Kindly respond to what I am writing next time..
Rather then going on a "roll" and defeating some fictional adversary in the 
world of sports mailings lists. 

Pete