The word out of Big D

[Celtic4Hire@xxxxxxx]

Word out of Big D:

People concerned, and rightly so, that the Mavs didn't solve a weakness 
(center), got worse at center, helped a strength (small/power forward) and that the 
may not develop the low post option now with Jamison minutes being cut that 
they will need in the playoffs. Don't care that they lost LaFrenz or his big 
contract.  Cuban talks about playing all those guys at the same time. (Who is 
going to rebound or at least foul the opposing center? )Think Walker is 
overrated. Bob Ryan, who was referred to the Godfather of basketball sport writers,  
got his article quoted as describing Walker perfectly in 100 words or less:  

Say this about 'Toine: He is very lucky, because he could not have gone  
to a more comfortable place, or be hooked up with a more compatible  
coach. Dallas is the ultimate Basketball Worker's Paradise, a franchise  
where players are fawned over to a disgusting degree in the guise of  
creating a viable workplace. Mark Cuban is every athlete's fantasy  
owner.

The best part for Antoine, however, is that he has found the right  
coach. Don Nelson is the champion of the oddball player, and there is  
no more oddball player that Antoine Walker, a 6-foot-8-inch guy with a  
questionable body who can make threes but who shoots too many of them;  
who can dribble like any guard you can name but can't really handle the  
ball properly; who has post-up moves but can't get them off against any  
good athlete; and who can make sensational passes but can't be trusted  
to make them at the proper moment. If anyone can make sense of all  
this, it's our Nellie.


Conclusion: Nellie got bored and Cuban is like a little boy at Christmas....

BTW, take a look at LaFrenz's career numbers. Forget last year. He isn't 
going to be great. He won't win any games for you. But he will be consistant and 
above average. But someone is going to have to step up to be your second best 
player...

Do you really think Jones will step over Kedrick for the starting stop. He 
hasn't played at all. I can't imagine how Jones could have outplayed Kedrick to 
date this preseason if he hadn't been injured....

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