Re: Banks Sparked Us

[Kim Malo <kimmalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:00 AM 1/4/2004, Dan Forant wrote:
> Starting the 3rd Banks speed and point guard savvy got us going. This kid
> should be starting along with Mihm. Ball distribution was awful in the 1st
> half  and very obvious is PP's continued ball mishandling. Baker looks done.
> Like Tommy Heinsohn says the Celts need a lesson in boxing out. What the hell
> do they do in practice??

I like Banks a lot. He still has too many unnecessary turnovers and is also 
still more than capable of excess cockiness or just being a rookie driven 
idiocies, all of which costs him some PT. But he brings a lot of energy and 
on the whole learns from his mistakes. On better days I dream at the 
thought of him and Ricky competing with regularity to see who can leave the 
better speed burns on the court. He will be the starter full time 
eventually (he has started some this season), but it's not exactly criminal 
that he doesn't now, since he's still getting minutes. Bringing him in off 
the bench provides a very useful energy insertion in contrast to the 
usually more reliable Jiri/James combination to start off the game.

As to boxing out and what goes on in practice practice - think of the 
classic old line about hitters who always looked like world beaters against 
the Red Sox and then couldn't buy a hit once they were signed to play for 
Boston "yeah, but before they were hitting against OUR pitching" <g>

Kim