From: mark@tc.fluke.COM (Mark D. Nagel)
Subject: Re: Doug Christie
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:51:28 GMT

In <1993Jan7.040022.13127@muddcs.claremont.edu> byau@jarthur.claremont.edu (Ben Yau) writes:

>Actually, i think the trade would work well [aquiring Jackson] with Seattle because Pierce hasn't
>been doing too well from the games i have seen this Christmas break AND from
>last year.  I think he is a ballhog.  On the break, when there's like a 3-1, 
>Pierce could easily pass the ball to Kemp or someone else who is on the break 
>but Pierce always takes it up for the shot, someitmes even drawing the offensive
>foul. 

I have to defend Pierce here. Ricky isn't a ball hog! Not too long ago he was
something like 3rd on the team in assists. His job is to score! He isn't as
pretty (playing style) as a bunch of other big time players, but HE IS A BIG
TIME PLAYER. There are few guards that are as strong as Ricky. He can really
muscle the ball to the rack. At this point it looks like he'll be on the
All-Star team.

>I think if the sonics signed Jimmy, and he proved to be the talent everyone 
>thinks he is, then he could possibly take the starting shooting guard spot
>right away.  Question is , how well would he really fit into the system?  he
>sould definitley not be getting star minutes.... like I posted earlier, each
>team member is getting less thqan 35 minutes a game..i think the average is 
>somewhere around 20.

I'll concede that Pierce is getting up in age and that his production may have
dropped off a bit, however, there isn't any way that Jackson could come to this
team and become a starter in a short period of time.

If I were Whittsit I'd do this trade and then look to trade Jackson for a quality
big guy: Someone who has beef and can run. Seattle has a bunch of guards already.
Shooting guards are a dime a dozen -- got em in the draft every year, maybe not
the likes of Jackson.

>Finally, I don't know if Benjamin should be traded until King can play.  From
>my friends up here in Seattle, they were telling me how King attended the Big
>Man's camp, and before regular season started, he was running circles around 
>Big Ben.  Although Ben doesn't get many minutes, he is useful at times.. and
>I am still surprised that he hustles that much and people give him a bad wrap
>(at the GS game, i believe I counted three , maybe two, times when Ben was in
>and outhustled a GSW to a ball going out of bounds.)

Good observation/comment. Ben hasn't been used much. He did, though, make a quick
impact in the GSW game by blocking 2 shots and grabbing a couple of boards (a couple
of points too) in just a few minutes; GSW backed off the boards quite a bit
after this.
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