Defense Counsel

[Noah Evans]

I agree with most of what you say, but Jefferies is an excellent and
long perimeter defender. Balkman isn't bad either.

Noah

On 10/4/07, Patrick.Ryan at westover.af.mil <Patrick.Ryan at westover.af.mil> wrote:
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> < The Celtics were scheduled to practice twice yesterday, but the
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> team spokesman Jeff Twiss said> - Globe 10/2
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> < There will be days where he {Tony Allen} will be sore, and then we'll
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> decide if he's just sore or if he's hurt." > - Doc
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> Typical Doc, eh?" - Egg
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> I had a nice chuckle. Nothing like furthering the body of evidence huh,
> just remember, he's a former COY. I REALLY think he'd be a phenomenal
> college coach at some mid-major as he and Pete Carroll are the same guy
> in different sports (awesome with people, not so steady when it comes to
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> by Peter Vecsey, NY Post Put Eddy Curry, Zach Randolph, Richardson,
> Crawford and Marbury out there at one time and it's hard to fathom a
> team being able to defend them. Having Lee and Renaldo Balkman and Jared
> Jeffries and Malik Rose and Mardy Collins and
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> Nate Robinson in reserve makes the Knicks one of the deepest, if not the
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> smartest, or halfway decent defenders, teams in the league."
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> Halfway decent defenders is a stretch. Balkman is from the Walter
> McCarty school of defense (if you LOOK like you're running around, you
> MUST be defending well!), Jeffries hasn't had passion for
> defense...well...ever, Rose is so past his prime he not even to the
> level of "shell of his former self" and Nate Robinson is what 5'4"?
> Every 5'4" guy in the league does one thing well and it isn't defend its
> play offense.
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> I've never really paid much attention to Vecsey - not for his style or
> anything, but he simply doesn't seem to understand the game of
> basketball all that well.
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