Optimism Part 2

[ryanmnelson at verizon.net]

you forgot the subset of low basketball IQ, and not a great athlete:

Brian Scalacrappi


>From: "Ryan, Patrick S Maj RES USAFR 439 MSG" <Patrick.Ryan at westover.af.mil>
>Date: 2006/09/18 Mon AM 11:49:56 CDT
>To: celtics at igtc.com
>Subject: Optimism Part 2

>I had to go work out for the following to pop into my head:
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>We have the following dichotomy of players:
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>Good basketball IQ guys (Delonte, Gomes, & Wally) with limited
>athleticism/height/speed/etc.
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>Great athletes (Green, Allen) with limited basketball IQ.
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>A coach that applies each in direct opposition to what other coaches do to
>exploit such dichotomy.  Add to that we draft just low enough to usually
>miss the guys that are both high IQ and athletic (again my biggest reason
>why I hated the draft - we could've had one of those guys!!!)
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>I guess if I had to name something - that's why I'm not that optimistic this
>year - we have very narrow "breadth" players (good at a lot of stuff) and
>those that are give up too much athletically and we have a coach who is,
>basically, inept in establishing well defined roles meaning our weaknesses
>are exploited that much more often. 
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