Re: HoopsHype Team Rankings - 8/30

[Celtic4Hire@xxxxxxx]

Ray,
When you say impact, do you mean like the impact like Tskitishvili, Dunleavy 
and Wilcox made last year?.... As for Salmons, I do agree da boy got game, but 
Banks wasn't far behind.....Now calling Okur the breakout player of next 
year, don't you have to play a little of next season before you can start calling 
people that? You could say that about any player right now. Every player could 
break out. I think I'm going to call myself the break out poster of the 
year.......The Nets are better than the Cs so it doesn't matter what they do. 
Unless they perform a self-inflicted wound and trade K Martin. KMart is the only 
guy in the eastern conference that can shut down Twan.....I'd like to see 
McDyess play so I can watch his knee buckle backwards again. That was 
something....Cecil already mentioned the injuries thing. Every team has equal chance to get 
them....

Baker looks awesome. I can't believe only losing 15 pounds would make that 
much difference for a 250 pounder. I think he was playing at a mucher weight 
than he was admitting to....

Got to agree with you Ray that Obie will screw up Vin, no matter how much 
embarassment he gets or weight he loses. However, I have to throw Obie a bone for 
trying to get help for Vin early in the season and keeping the problem 
in-house. That gives me some hope that maybe I got the wrong call on him....

DJessen33



> Jessen,
> Milicic is 18 not 17, played against better competition than Banks and James,
> and said by L Brown to be a bigger/quicker version of Danny Manning.
> While he's not likely to dominate his first season, he should have an impact.
> 
> Yes, the Celtics will be better, and both Banks and apparently Baker
> will contribute to that function, but thre's been an upscaling in
> the majority of EC teams, so the Celtics competition will be much
> more difficult this season.
> 
> For instance, Detroit not only has Milicic, but Mehmet Okur, which a fair
> number of people are predicting stardom for and a calling him the breakout 
> player
> of the year.
> 
> And if the Knicks should get Van Exel and a healthy McDyess, they are playoff
> bound.
> 
> The Sixers could be better with an emerging John Salmons, who was clearly 
> the best
> 
> PG in all of the Summer Leagues and dusted your guy Banks.
> 
> N Jersey may be set to make a big trading splash for Wallace and possibly 
> Davis,
> even without them, they're stll better than the Celtics.
> 
> Indiana is certainly improved. Orlando the same, Hornets depend on the 
> health of
> Davis and Mashburn, Chicago is dangerous. Cleveland is better.
> Even Washington should be improved. Toronto perhaps. There should
> definitely be more EC teams contending for the playoffs this season.
> 
> One thing to keep in mind about the Celtics. Injuries to Pierce and Walker.
> They've
> been lucky and healthy so far, but it won't last. Eventually one, if not 
> both,
> will
> miss a long stretch of games.
> Ray