Big Baby's Bulls Beatdown

[dforant1]

He'd have to be Superman to hold up at this pace. Maybe he knows how to 
conserve energy.


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From: "asterix ninetynine" <asterix_9_9 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 7:34 AM
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> Outworked and outhustled is right.  I notice that he seems to get that big 
> body up and down the court pretty quickly.  His conditioning looks good, 
> but I wonder if it will continue over the course of the season.  Most 
> rookies hit a wall later on in the season.  If hustle is your strong suit, 
> hitting the wall could be dire come March.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Alex Goldblatt <alex.goldblatt at gmail.com>
> To: The Boston Celtics Mailing List <celtics at igtc.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 12:22:22 AM
> Subject: Re: Big Baby's Bulls Beatdown
>
> He matched up with BigBen nicely because of his size: just a couple of 
> years
> back BBen would eat his lunch, but his speed and athleticism is nowhere
> close to what it used to be. Baby simply outworked, outhustled him. 
> Besides,
> he moves much better to shut down the paint - nice to have this wide body,
> even though you're barely 6'7"...  but if you play another 6'7"...
>
> AG
>
> On Dec 10, 2007 7:10 PM, gene kirkpatrick <gk_tyler at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Correct.  Davis was on Big Ben from the start.  Garnett stayed with Joe
>> whathisname.  I'm watching some of it again; so far, Davis seems to
>> discourage aggressive play by Ben.  He's just too big and active to move 
>> or
>> go around easily.  For stretches of time and with certain opposing bigs,
>> Davis appears to be ok at the center.  He gets rebounds Pollard couldn't 
>> get
>> to and he certainly has more offense.  He won't make blocks like Pollard,
>> but there's something to be said for his movement on both ends of the 
>> court.
>>  You know he's in the game.
>>
>> dforant1 <dforant1 at nycap.rr.com> wrote: I think Davis played the 5.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Peter Delevett"
>>
>> To:
>> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 2:35 PM
>> Subject: Big Baby's Bulls Beatdown
>>
>>
>> >I didn't get to see the Bulls game, so I'm curious:
>> > when Doc put BB in after Perkins got in foul trouble,
>> > did Garnett slide to center?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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