Daily Links 11/9

Tonight might be one of those times Ainge was talking about when he said the Celtics will need Davis’s size. The Hawks are BIG. The starting front court of Josh Smith, Marvin Williams and Horford may be one of the best resounding 3 in the league, and Smith is a really nice post defender. Atlanta is not a small-ball team.

hey FLCEltsfan – I really like reading these in between queries and db updates, but I think you’re repeating some from yesterday. Please, if I’m crazy, disregard this because I don’t mind reading some of them again. Keep up the good work.

PS – Wonderful weather we’re having down here!

I have to post regarding the “It’s Larry Legend not Kevin Legend” article above (here is what I posted on the Celtics ESPN board):

The above article was a link on the wonderful CelticsBlog… I totally agree that saying KG is better than Bird at this part is silly… but there are some comments to the article with people who think KG would not even start on the ’86 team, one guy saying he would be 8th of the bench.

Personally, give me KG over McHale or Parrish. Both were efficient scorers in the post and are without question some of the best to put on a uniform. But with KG, you are talking about possibly the single most versatile player, when considering both offense and defense, in the history of basketball. As a devout follower of Garnettism, I am a firm believer that you are just now seeing his true potential because of the guys he has around him. 2003-2004 was a taste… he took a team to the Western Conference Finals with an aging Sam Cassell and Latrell Sprewell as his best teammates! Now those are solid players… but when they are the best you have ever played with??? Come on, that is a joke.

I’m hoping you guys can already see it after 3 games… but if KG replaced Parrish on that uptempo Celtics/80’s stlye ball and was playing alongside Bird, McHale, DJ, Aigne, and Walton… I honestly believe he could average 18 points, 18 rebounds, 7 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks. Even more so, he’s already shown how amazing he is on the defensive end… he has the greatest combination of strength, size, quickness, athleticism, intelligence, experience, endurance and most importantly, desire, of any defender I’ve ever seen. There is a reason the Celtics have become a defense force over night, and it’s not because they added Ray Allen.

And I won’t even go into the fact that he would have been the most athletic 7 footer ever seen at that point in time and would have left people in awe with what he did…

hey FLCEltsfan – I really like reading these in between queries and db updates, but I think you’re repeating some from yesterday. Please, if I’m crazy, disregard this because I don’t mind reading some of them again. Keep up the good work.

I may repeat one or two from time to time but I am doing these at 6 am and it takes approximately 2 hours or more to finish them in between getting kids off to 3 different schools etc. If I repeat a couple, I apologize.