Looking at moves by the 29 NBA teams

Gary Collard wrote:
>
> Charlie Board wrote:
> >
> > Goldfinger wrote:
> > >
> > > "igor eduardo küpfer" <strudel.DeleteThis@example.com> wrote in message
> > > news:7oufjvs72b0rca7hqmm5qmmal8dtoh0tue@4ax.com...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 02-03 Nesterovich
> > > >
> > > > Opp Pts Reb
> > > > LAK 12.8 6.0
> > > > PHX 12.8 6.5
> > > > SAC 12.3 10.0
> > > > OTHER 10.9 6.4
> > >
> > > Since when is a 12 pt 8 board center regarded as superstar? Divac can well
> > > accomplish that with just a few flops. This guy has Shaw Bradly written all
> > > over his forehead.
> >
> > Who the hell ever called him a superstar? His job is to replace the 9pts & 8reb
> > a game that Robinson gave us last year. Period.
>
> And, you hope, without losing too awfully much of the defense of DR. Every
> move they made makes it look like they will be better on offense and worse
> on defense than before.

True. But they said the same thing last year when Ginobili came over
and Jackson started gettng big minutes. I have confidence in Pop's
ability to build a team defense mindset. And there's no one in the
league to better build a team defense around than #21. I figure the defense
will be 3-5 pts a game worse over the course of the season...but they
should more than make up for that with offensive improvement.
We'll see.

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 23:02:24 GMT, Gary Collard
<garycollard.RemoveThis@netscape.net> wrote:

>Charlie Board wrote:
>>
>> Goldfinger wrote:
>> >
>> > "igor eduardo küpfer" <strudel.RemoveThis@example.com> wrote in message
>> > news:7oufjvs72b0rca7hqmm5qmmal8dtoh0tue@4ax.com...
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > 02-03 Nesterovich
>> > >
>> > > Opp Pts Reb
>> > > LAK 12.8 6.0
>> > > PHX 12.8 6.5
>> > > SAC 12.3 10.0
>> > > OTHER 10.9 6.4
>> >
>> > Since when is a 12 pt 8 board center regarded as superstar? Divac can well
>> > accomplish that with just a few flops. This guy has Shaw Bradly written all
>> > over his forehead.
>>
>> Who the hell ever called him a superstar? His job is to replace the 9pts & 8reb
>> a game that Robinson gave us last year. Period.
>
>And, you hope, without losing too awfully much of the defense of DR. Every
>move they made makes it look like they will be better on offense and worse
>on defense than before.

The most critical defensive move made was keeping Duncan at PF. With
him able to lend more help, they will always be a good defensive team.

Losing DRob and Jax will hurt their defense, though I did think that
Jax gambled too much. I know Hedo has a bad rep as a defender, but I
haven't watched him enough to know if it deserved, or just based on
him being a funny looking Euro.