Would someone please post the insider article which has player ratings with Brad Miller as their #1 center?

[Edited by - mac on 09/20/2004 01:30:51]

Posted by Mac:

Would someone please post the insider article which has player ratings with Brad Miller as their #1 center?

[Edited by - mac on 09/20/2004 01:30:51]

I can't post it, I don't know how to copy the text of insider pages (they're locked), but the article was pretty stupid it was really just another 'Building the Perfect Team USA' article. So, yes, Terry Brown went with Brad Miller over Shaq (he only counted Americans). He had Duncan as a Power Forward.

The last line of the article was particularly maddening though, as well as the fact that the article was generally quite racist. Anyway the last line: "Well you could have this perfect team, Or you could have Stephon Marbury taking threes, Carmelo Anthony sulking and Emeka Okafor collecting DNPs, not one of them knowing how to make the pass that leads to the pass that leads to the bucket."

Huh? Marbury can't run an offense? I thought everyone had agreed already that the offense, the fact that Melo was pissed and the fact that Emeka didn't play had SOMETHING to do with Larry Brown not coaching well. Ugh.

Terry Brown is a racist idiot who can't write well at all. He makes Chad Ford look like a genius.

By Terry Brown
ESPN Insider

You won't find it in any boxscore or statistical analysis, but there is such a thing as the pass that leads to the pass that leads to the bucket.

It's right there next to screens and defensive switches and central to our search for "real" basketball players, as we enter our final day of compiling a team of NBA players that would win in June as well as win in Athens.

"Complementary players are the key to any basketball team," said an NBA scout. "You have to have guys who are willing to sacrifice themselves and make that pass and follow through with their cut with only a hope that if they are open, they'll get the return pass. Most of the time they won't, but they keep the offense going time and time again."



Allen Iverson, Tracy McGrady and Kobe Bryant are more than willing to take the shot. They are applauded for sometimes making the pass. But put all three of them on the same team, and on any particular play, only one of them can take that shot, and only one of them can make that pass.

We could have started this whole list by breaking out the tape and watching what players do when they don't have the ball -- the camera isn't focused on them -- and eliminated any of them that stood on the periphery constantly calling for the rock.

The difference between a good player and a great player may very well be what he does with his time when he doesn't have the ball in his hands.

"There is a right way to set a screen," said another NBA scout. "And it doesn't involve raising the opposite hand to call for the ball before the play even has a chance to develop."

But before we go any further, here are the centers for our team:

Brad Miller, C, Sacramento Kings

Court Sense
Locker room Chemistry
Coachability
Fundamentals
Work Ethic
Pluses: In the East, they talk about how big and strong he is. In the West, they talk about his soft hands and keen sense of passing. But does it really matter when you realize that everyone is talking about a player who was never drafted?
Minuses: Almost looks as if he could fall over on his side, even as he hits full stride.
Scout's take: "He could have been born 20 years ago, and he would have been just as good an NBA player as he is today."

Jamaal Magloire, C, New Orleans Hornets

Court Sense
Locker room Chemistry
Coachability
Fundamentals
Work Ethic
Pluses: In his second season in the NBA, he became a 50-percent shooter. In his third, he became a double-digit scorer. In his fourth, he became a double-digit rebounder. He begins his fifth in about a month.
Minuses: There are still gaps in his game that he could walk through without ducking at 6-foot-11.
Scout's take: "This kid started from scratch in the NBA and turned himself into an all-star without having to apologize to anyone along the way."

(Note: Magloire is Canadian by birth but has never played for the Canadian Senior Basketball Team, and therefore is still eligible for our team ala Tim Duncan, though his address may have to change.)

That would make it an even 12 for our team of "real" players.

Here's the recap:

Right-way All-Stars
Starting Five
PG Jason Kidd
SG Ray Allen
SF Kevin Garnett
PF Tim Duncan
C Brad Miller



Sure, there are all-stars and future Hall of Famers -- but there are also reserves and complementary players. Of the starting five, two of them could care less about scoring themselves (with averages of 14.8 ppg and 11.2 ppg), and two players have been accused of not shooting enough throughout their careers, despite winning three MVPs between them.

There are also shooters, defenders and guys who can play an effective 15 minutes in a game without taking a single shot and guys who can win a game with a single shot.

But most important to this analysis is that we've got 12 who could be locked in a gym for three or four months and still be friends afterward. Or, they could take the floor for the first time without any prior notice and still pass and cut and make the defensive switches necessary to win a basketball game against anyone.

Or, you could have Stephon Marbury taking threes, Carmelo Anthony sulking and Emeka Okafor collecting DNPs, not one of them knowing how to make the pass that leads to the pass that leads to the bucket.

jamaal magloire plays for canada!

magloire is canadian!

what a joke.

Posted by Caseloads:

jamaal magloire plays for canada!

magloire is canadian!

what a joke.

He's Canadian but according to the article he does NOT play for Canada and is thus eligible to play for the US