Posted by BigSm00th:
Swish, you're way off base:
"First of all STAT BOY..I don't care what his averages are..the fact of the matter is that this guy couldn't even lead his team to NCAA Tournament..."-If you want to go by this point, you then go and put Raymond Felton over TJ Ford at PG. Are you crazy? Ford was the college player of the year for ESPN, the majority of publications, and when for when the coaches voted. You must know more then them. Not only that, HE LED HIS TEAM TO THE FINAL FOUR! WHERE WAS UNC? UNC had as much talent as UT and they didn't even qualify for the NCAA. You crossed yourself up big time man, find a position and stick with it. You're just against Sweetney because of the fact that Briggs likes him and you're anti-Briggs.
Look at the numbers, they don't lie. Against double and triple teams in a conference with quite a few talented big men he put up shockingly good numbers.
"C-Estill (Not a real center but he played better than these clowns)"-Over Okafor? You don't watch basketball if you have him over Okafor. You won't find one cat on this board who agrees with you there or Felton over Ford.
And before I finish, "SG-Hayes (A notch better than Wade)", Once again making yourself the biggest hypocrite on the board after excaliming "oh sweentey didnt even lead his team to the NCAAs" Wade leads him team to, what the Elite 8 was it? I know Hayes' team got burned because of the Harrick thing, but Wade got there and got the job done and your crossing yourself up again. Whats that about?
I'm not saying the Knicks should pick Sweetney, I think he's a good player and will be a solid pro but the stuff you're saying is laughable.
You admitted a while back that to spite Dolan and Co. you didn't watch basketball this year or somethign to that extent, and that's all good, I respect you for that, but don't come in here and pretend to know what's going on if you don't watch the NCAA and say Felton played better then TJ Ford this year or Esill better then Okafor or that Mike Sweetney played ****ty.
[Edited by - bigsm00th on 05/05/2003 16:30:37]
Briggs man, great points. The fact of the matter is, Pavel P. and Greeek Baby Shaq are right now nobodies, but each has huge talent to work with - I don't like that either for our pick, as I'd prefer someone who is a huge talent, huge ceiling and prepared skills already. The NBA draft is all about three pillars:
I) size (1st and foremost - height, hops, body type, since these are hardest to teach),
II) potential (2nd - athleticism, innate ability, basketball IQ, on court vision, character, work ethic, vibe) and
III) skills (3rd, since it can be worked on / taught) for one's position.
At 6-8 (probably 6-7), sweetney doesn't fulfill the first thing we need. The guy isn't going to grow, and has freaking CLARENCE WEATHERSPOON and Othella Harrington and TRAVIS KNIGHT ahead of him in the rotation. that is the sad part.
Greek Baby Shaq, at probably 6-10, could play center, has height for PF. If rumors that he's 6-8 are true, he's NOT going to be drafted by the Knicks. Period. We already have Kurt Thomas, at 6-8, playing Center.
If This Pavel Podkozlin is actually 7-4 300 pounds, and have any sort of decent skills, no history of injury, can dunk, run the drills and maybe block a shot or two in workouts, and shows some instinct, he's getting drafted in the lotto, period, probably before our #9 spot.
5/4/2003 5:44 PM