Lampe? Don't count on him being Dirk...

[GuyClinch@xxxxxxx]

> The bottom line is even though we all have our personal favorites, no one 
> knows who will be good and who won't. The NBA draft has become a total 
> crapshoot once you get into the double digits. Who would have guessed Amare 
> as ROY? I know he was a lottery pick but still a gamble. We won't know for 
> at least a year how good or bad these picks were.
> 
No doubt. Lets stop all this crying about Lampe..just because some draftnik 
picked him high and he "slid".. That doesn't make him the second coming of Paul 
Pierce. PP was unbelievable because he was a total stud in HS (McDonald's All 
American game...) and in a BIG time college program and still slid. Lampe is 
far more unknown.. 

Likewise, we won't know about Perkins for quite a while...unless he looks 
just really slow in summer league.

Perkins could be a solid player...He is long, and looks stronger then Lampe.
I am not sure he is a "black" Montross either.. When your dealing with big 
men conditioning and weight can really distort athletic ability. I have read 
that he was a "good"athlete on one website, elsewhere he is quoted as being an 
"average" athlete.
Montross was not a "average" athlete by ANY stretch of the imagination.

I can't believe you folks are all pouting about Lampe. MANY other teams 
passed on him..maybe they know something everyone else didn't. Just cause some 
draftnik ranked him high that doesn't mean jack.

Banks..I suspect he will make in in the league. He can probably come right in 
and split time with J.R. Bremer. J.R. is a better shooter, but I imagine 
Banks will be a better distributor and tempo guy.

Also don't count on Kedrick wasting away on the bench..
OB recently claimed that K. Brown had an excellent work ethic and a good 
basketball I.Q..(though perhaps he felt sorry for harshing on him in that DA vs. 
OB piece) He also said that he would have developed much faster on another 
team. 

Pete