more than one less than four

[Jeff White]

Harry,

You must have been writing the Great American novel or otherwise engaged if
you don't remember the buzz about Al's play his rookie season -- and not
just from glass-half-full types on this list. Check out what Bob Ryan and
Jackie McMullan (and other writers around the NBA) had to say about Al.  Or
is their basketball judgment as flawed as Danny's?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <HRBlaine at aol.com>
To: <celtics at igtc.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: more than one less than four


>
> In a message dated 9/14/2006 3:19:39 P.M. Central Standard Time, Mark
> writes:
>
> >You don't think what he did as a kid straight out of high school  was
> >impressive? You must be the only one, Harry.
>
> Well, I guess I must be because his first year stats of 6.7/4.4 in 15
> minutes don't set me on fire.  You like 'em huh?  And as for a slump,  in
his 2nd
> year he was 7.9/5.1 in 18 minutes.  Looks like a wash to  me.  Certainly
no
> improvement which could be considered a slump I  guess.
>
> Frankly, I really don't expect much, if anything, out of a HSer.   Not for
> several years, if at all.  I just don't think many GMs are  that good as
judges
> of  HS talent, certainly not Danny whose basketball  judgement has to be
> suspect.  (I won't bore you with the list of  DDMs  <Danny's dumb
mistakes> for you
> know them as well as I do.)
>
> I'm happy to give Al four years to develop but I'm really tired  of all
this
> talk about "potential".  Potential has to be realized and so  far IMO it
> hasn't been.  Danny's drafts have been for role players/backups  on a
championship
> team.  I believe that I said some weeks ago that none of  DA's draft picks
> were worth the mid level at this point in their careers.   Perk just
proved me
> right but I hope (against hope) that Al will prove me  wrong.  So far tho,
I'm
> sticking to my guns.   Anyway, comparing  him to Amare is just silly.  In
his
> first year AS was 13.5/8.8 in 31,  second year 20.6/9 in 37.  Hellboy 2
huh?
> Sh*tboy 2 is more like  it.
>
> Harry
> think al'll average 30 minutes this year?
>
>
>
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