RE: The Boston Celtics Mailing List Digest V10 #84

["Wright, Cecil" <Cecil.Wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd replace Walton as a starter with Kareem as well as grabbing maybe Wilt and Jerry West for the bench.

Cecil  

-----Original Message-----
From: steve knight [mailto:stevebknight@yahoo.com]
Sent: March 12, 2003 4:08 PM
To: Celtics@igtc.com
Subject: Re: The Boston Celtics Mailing List Digest V10 #84


Mark, 

Couldn't agree more with your assessment of Dominique
and McGrady, who's just now hitting his stride and
already brings more to the table than DW did at his
peak. With DW, you knew they were never going to win
it all because of his limitations and inability to
make his teammates better. conversely, i can see tmac
leading his team to the title one day. and to think we
passed on tmac twice in the draft. groan.

btw, that brings me to a conversation i had with my
kids last night. after the CONN women lost, i was
reminiscing about ucla's 88 straight wins and how
perfect a player bill walton was. told them at the
peak of his game, i'd take him at center over anyone.
which led to me naming my all-time team:

starters:
jordan
magic
bird
russell
walton

subs:
mchale
tiny archibald (pre-celtic days)
oscar
kobe (i hate to, but...)
shaq
kareem
antoine (just kidding)
olajuwan
  

steve  

Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:16:50 -0500
From: "Berry, Mark  S" <berrym@BATTELLE.ORG>
Subject: RE: Miscellaneous thoughts

I really regret the implication I made about
Dominique. In fact, it was 
more
than an implication. It was a statement. You're right.
The guy was 
great. He
was a great scorer and offensive rebounder. But he
didn't have the 
complete
collection of skills that McGrady has. I think you're
underestimating
McGrady. Dominique didn't have the handle or passing
ability that 
McGrady
has. Dominique was outstanding. But so is McGrady. Who
would I take? 
Tough
call. At their best, I'd take Dominique. But as good
as he was, there 
was a
little bit of basketball sense that was missing from
Dominique's game.

I don't think we differ as much on our opinions of
Dominique as we do 
in our
opinions of McGrady. The guy is putting it all
together this year. He's
doing it all. And he still has the devastating
athleticism. He doesn't 
have
the supporting cast Pierce does-Gooden is a rookie,
and Miller is gone. 
He
has some decent role players around him, but no one to
compare to 
Antoine.
Pippen was great, but always content to be a sidekick.
Not McGrady. He 
does
everything Pippen does and he's not willing to take a
backseat to 
anyone (I
mean that as a compliment).

Anyway, I really do regret the way I characterized
Dominique. I am 
close to
your age, so I definitely remember the best and worst
of Dominique. At 
his
best-the Game 7 shootout with Larry-he was unreal. But
I also remember 
a
Dominique entirely without conscience who would shoot
his team out of 
games.
That was what he did-shoot-and if the shots weren't
falling, he didn't
always bring a lot to the table.

Mark 
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