re: Devin Harris and Zydrunas Ilgauskas

[wayray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Please Mark,
You're as wrong about Ilgauskas as you are about Sheldon Williams.
Perkins = Solid NBA Center to be; Ilgauskas = Quasi-All Star.
Injury Prone? He's played in all 71 Cleveland games this season.
He's averaging 15.4 points, 8.1 rebounds (and playing next to Boozer
who ingests them), and 2.46 blocks. Those are damn good stats.
And he's a free agent after next season, which means you have the possibility 
of doing the same thing Portland did, if you can't/don't want to sign him.

Hey, I put Perkins on my list of SOA players and he'll be a good solid NBA center,
but Ilgauskas is better.   

As far as Devin H goes, I think a shorter DJ type of player, so possibly an Arenas
type. Certainly a better prospect coming out of college than Banks was.
Ray

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> On a couple of recent Ray posts:
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> The Celts love Devin Harris ... I like him, too. Someone compared him to
> Gilbert Arenas and I think that's a pretty good comparison. He's
> definitely an offensive-minded point guard, but the key is he's a point
> guard. He plays point guard for Wisconsin. He's not a shooting guard who
> would be switched to point guard (hello, Ben Gordon).
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> 
> 
> Is he my ideal Celtic point guard? No. But I think he'll be a good NBA
> player. He has a lot of "stuff." He can shoot, but he also can get to
> the rim, has a great mid-range game, knows how to use the glass, and he
> sees the floor. I like him. He's not Jason Kidd, but those guys don't
> come along that often. I think he's a better player than Marcus Banks.
> 
> 
> 
> On another draft note ... does anyone know if the Hoop Summit game will
> be broadcast this weekend?
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> 
> Zydrunas Ilgauskas ... No thanks. Not if it means parting with Kendrick
> Perkins. You don't trade a young center with Kendrick's upside for an
> aging, seriously injury-prone former all-star who is a shadow of the
> player he once was. Ilgauskas was a great player before the injuries.
> Now he's a good player. Nothing more. Stay away.
> 
> 
> 
> This and that:
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> .... Danny tells Tommy he wants to see more of Marcus, Mihm and Hunter
> and the same night Walter gets 46 minutes. Then, when Carroll sees
> that's crazy, he plays Jumaine Jones instead of Hunter. Carroll knows
> he's out of here, so he's not paying a lick of attention to anything
> Ainge says. I don't really think it makes much of a difference at this
> point (the ship has sailed), but it has to make Ainge simmer when
> Carroll pulls this stuff.
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> 
> 
> .... Danny talking about all the point guards in this draft. I don't
> think he's sold on Banks either. Good. He shouldn't be.
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> 
> 
> .... Did anyone have any thoughts on Okafor's performance Saturday? He
> took over that game with four or five blocks in the first 10 minutes.
> Just changed the way it was going to be played. Dwight Howard may be
> great, but if he went to college and stuck around for three years,
> wouldn't any coach in America be THRILLED if he turned out to be as good
> as Emeka Okafor? How much better than Okafor could he be? And with
> Okafor, you know you're getting a strong work ethic, a leader and a
> team-first guy. If I were a GM with the top pick, I wouldn't think
> twice. No way I'd take Howard over Okafor. No way.
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> 
> Mark

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