Draft Red Flags

That typically means they are somewhere in the 5’6 to 5’8 range. Anyone 5’10 and above will list themselves as at least 6’0.

but i still really disagree with cutting it off with your “armpit criteria”.

i think that any t-shirt under the jersey looks terrible and is an affront on the game of basketball. while the full sleeved t-shirt is the worst, wearing anything under the jersey besides an underarmor type tank shows that the player is probably insecure and wimpy.

i also disagree with you that jj reddick is anything other than a terrible basketball player and miserable human being. sure, he’s better than adam morrison, but it took him 5 years in the pros to become an adequate bench warmer. he was wildly overrated in college, winning player of the year, and still is. did i mention he went to duke?

Chris Mullins, Larry Johnson and Patrick Ewing all sported them back in the 80’s – time when it seemed like it was first being done…admit I wasn’t big on the look when it started up.

It always amazes me how underrated Ewing is. I guess you had to watch him play night in and night out to truly understand how good he was. He had the turnaround perfected before Olajuwon did. He was a knockdown 18 foot jumpt shooter. He was a huge defensive presence. His hands were suspect compared to say, Shaq. But otherwise he was really a great all around player.

But those Knicks teams he led were, for about 4 years, the second best teams in the league behind MJ’s Bulls. They gave the Bulls the only true tests they had in the playoffs those first 3 championships. And that was with CBA players (Starks and Mason) and castoff role players (Oak – love him but he was just tough, not talented, Charles Smith, etc.) playing primary roles behind Ewing. I don’t believe there is any way Malone or Sabonis ever gets that group of players to play at the level they did with Ewing. None.

I was lucky enough to see him play night in and night out and Malone and Stocton, while great together, likely would not have done by themselves what Ewing did by himself. And Sabonis, I didn’t see him play before he got to the NBA so who’s to say what he could have done when he was younger. But at the time he got to the NBA, he was just a good complimentary player. An All-Star only because the league has always starved for solid bigs.

If I had to rate all-time centers, he would be well above Sabonis and behind only Russell, Wilt, Kareem, Shaq, and slightly behind Olajuwon since Hakeem got him in the finals (only thanks to Starks shooting 1 for a million in the potential clinching game for the Knicks).