Re: PG's

[j.hironaka@unesco.org]

I agree with you on Terry Porter. He was a complete guard and a clutch player
who arguably may deserve as much HOF consideration as the Dream Teamer Joe
Dumars (my favorite non-Celtic of all time). Porter was like a young Dennis
Johnson (circa 1979) when it came to stepping up on both ends when it mattered.
Too bad he plays for the Mucho Greasy One.

Go Celts!

Joe

p.s. Congratulations Greg on that Blazers blowout win over the Fakers. I
absolutely love it :-)

p.p.s. As I recall, the Celtics came awfully close to drafting Joe Dumars but
ended up instead with the consolation/booby prize (Sam Vincent). Both players
were graded as solid defender/scorers who were too short for NBA 2-guard and too
inexperienced to project as a point guard, much like Dee Brown.

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"Odegaard, Greg M." wrote:

> Stockton is not a 10 anymore for sure, but he was a 10+ because he truly
> could do it, in fact made Magic look bad 100's of times late in his career,
> when Stock couldn't be stopped on both ends.  His defense is grossly
> underrated (steals leader and all).
> I have always thought the world of Terry Porter (playing in Portland for
> years) who was also a great all around PG.  His duels with Stockton were
> enough to make your eyes water, those and Kevin Johnson in the early 90's as
> well.  Give Riley credit for picking Porter up.  Just think what value he
> could have brought to our team this year and next? KJ is still home mowing
> the lawn.
> I feel with respect to the PG, we should draft here and let the right
> project develop (project being a pure PG who can defend), without a likely
> pick this year this becomes a challenge, though I am still high on Alvin
> Williams, who like Yogi hasn't gotten much of a shake in Toronto to develop.
> He has a near complete game and could be had this summer out of his one year
> exemption deal.
>
> Have a nice spring day folks,
> Greg