Re: This line bothers me...

[Ellie Cutler <ellie@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, no, LaFrentz's game is nothing like Antoine's.  Aside from that, 
you're forgetting (along with most of the all the non-Boston writers) the 
addition by subtraction part of Antoine's game. He takes over 20 shots a 
game and makes only a few of them. That's a bunch of shots that somebody 
else could take who would make *more* than a few of them.  I laughed when I 
saw the writers rub their hands with glee at the thought of adding another 
20+ ppg scorer to Dallas. Antoine needs 30 shots to get that done. If he 
takes 30 shots in the Dallas offense, their team point production goes 
south (not to mention their chemistry).   If he doesn't, he's not adding 
that many points to the Dallas offense.  He'll be great with them if he 
passes and takes and makes selective shots.

 --Ellie

At 02:22 PM 10/21/2003 , Frederick Hurley wrote:
> On 10/21/03 7:50 AM, Stephen Beauregard wrote:
>
> > ""But he'll help the Celtics," Nelson predicted. "He can shoot the 
> three. We
> > had Dirk at his position, so he couldn't get enough time in our lineup. 
> He's
> > not strong enough at any one thing to [displace] our guys. They'll get more
> > out of him than we did." -- NOw that Twoine is gone, aren't we going to 
> a more
> > traditional offense with more inside offense and FEWER 3's?
>
> So basically, LaFrentz's game is JUST like Antoine Walker's.  He's just not
> as good at it as Walker is.  But on the upside, he IS under contract for a
> while yet.  Great.