Posted by prodson:
briggs what was the point you were trying to make when you said you played basketball in college and that you have been watching 25 years????
is that why you create threads on 50 something players so you can come back and make a post about how the guys you wanted went 6 and 9????
i can name at least 15 players you created threads on...and then on one thread i remember you saying "after final evaluation" you were sold on badiane...or was it tj ford...wait, it might have been bosh...no if i remember correctly it was lang...no my bad it was pavel...you said the guys you liked went 6-9 but you meant 6-90?
now all of a sudden you are trying to give me a cliffnote on lampe..like you have seen him play or something or..wait did you play against him in college?? i don't remember you ever talking about lampe ..i DO remember you talking about 50 other players tho.
i "said" he is supposed to be the next dirk nowitzki...that is all i have read...his game favors dirk...he is not dirk but his game favors dirk...maybe he has no heart no bang inside and rebound in an nba season...i don't know but they didn't say his game was like a center...they said his game favors dirk...so that's what i posted.
you are correct noone is perfect. but especially you
when i post of how a player has been compared to another player why is it that someone comes back and post that he is NOT that player but then turns around and gives me an example of how he can be SOME OTHER player????
so all he has to do is keep growing and put on a few more pounds and he will be an outstanding center huh.
Prodson, I agree with you somewhat. I hate when announcers or the supposed "experts" say that, for example, Lebron James is the next Michael Jordan, or that Mike Sweetney reminds them of another Charles Oakley, or so on. That bothers me for 2 reasons:
1) Players that come before these rookies have established themselves on their OWN merit. NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE has the right to take what they've achieved and place the similiar expectations on another person. Michael Jordan was is and always will be a one and a million player. Last I checked, we haven't reached a million yet. Lebron James is not the NEXT MICHAEL JORDAN. LeBron James is going to be the next LeBron James, no more, no less.
2) By comparing them to other players, you ruin the legend of those special players when the rookies don't pan out. It waters down what we hold as cherished into the question: "Who's the next big thing?" It cheapens the idea of individuality and uniqueness and turns it into a stupifying cyclitic waiting for the next basketball messiah to show up when in actuality, he has already come and gone.
I hope that makes SOME sense, I sounded good in my head.
But, nevertheless, Sweetney, Lampe and Vranes will be the next Sweetney Lampe and Vranes. What they achieve is only limited by their potential, and from what we've seen for Sweetney, so far so good. The jury is still out on Lampe and Vranes, but the verdict looks promising.
Ok, I'm done. Anyone care to comment on this?
GEMME DA ROC!Lampe is gonna pull out the opposing teams center to shoot his jumpers on him and it also lets Sweetney do his thing.i cant wait,the Knicks already workin with Lampe's three point shots.he was 15-25 from the mark on his first serious work out with the knicks and T.Brand and Q.Richardson in a summer program.watch out dirk,he's only gonna get better and the knicks r currently talkin to Madrid about his contract.Hes a knick this season
6/30/2003 11:23 AM