"need an impact player"

[Mark Piotrowski]

>I'm not that nuts over Telfair.
>Watched him on the tube a couple of
>times but with so much time between
>viewings its really hard to tell too
>much. Like one poster said, he
>played behind two other guys on a
>bad Portland team. That in itself
>tells me something. That coaching
>staff had to see some problems with
>his play even considering his age.
>All the coaches in the league we
>have to consider aren't supposedly
>as incompetent as our Doc is
>inclined to be.
>
>Goody


why not?  i think McMillian is a good coach, but maybe he simply felt 
more comfortable with Blake and Jack right now.  We could list 
example after example of guys being on bad teams, who played behind 
other guys they were better than.

sometimes its the player, sometimes the coach.  Doc isn't the first 
guy to do it...

I'm not totally sold on Telfair -- though i think it would be a good 
gamble.  But this argument that --- AS A 20 YEAR OLD STRAIGHT FROM 
H.S. -- he coudln't beat out guys is weak.  J. O'Neal "couldn't beat 
out R. Wallace and Brian Grant -- heck he played less than the 
immortal Gary Trent and Kelvin Cato -- on the 1998 team.  I'd say 
he's even w/ Rasheed as a player....

I guess i just feel that you take the BPA in the draft and if we stay 
at 7 Telfair would be the BPA.  But then again i wanted the C's to 
take S. Shortstantitus (sp?) back in the day :)

(the other) mark