With Sterno acting like a hall monitor and these greedy Agents running a muck I would have to say a LockOut is impending
Exasperated? Come on Eggers, you're better than to use "exasperated" when you mean "exacerbated". Oh, yeah, about the article...I think comparison is apt.
Agreed. Fernandez came to the Blazers as essentially a good young prospect. Petrovic came to the Blazers as a legend...essentially the only player who could challenge Sabonis for the title of greatest European player ever. Petrovic had more ability and had more experience. He deserved more than being treated as a raw rookie who'd get a turn someday in the distant future. Fernandez got the minutes and role he deserved, in my opinion. He was a clear rotation player in his rookie season and then lost minutes in his second season when his play declined.
Did Petro score 100 points in a game in Euroleague play? I seem to recall him doing something crazy like that. And yes, Petro is easily 3 to 4 times the player Rudy will ever be.
I'd like to see Rudy get 40 minutes a game so we could make a real comparison. Not instead of Brandon, but you know what I mean!
He scored 112 points in one game. And had games of 40+, 50+ and 60+. He averaged close to 40 PPG in his top Yugoslavian league and over 30 PPG in general European tournaments.
I got to see some of Petro's Cibona and Madrid games in Europe - that guy was a superstar. He was much better in Euro competition than Rudy was.
The first 2/3 of the article is a review of the upcoming TV show. Despite the article's title, Rudy isn't mentioned in the first 2/3. (Maybe in the introductory line.) Instead of similarities, I'll add some opposites. Petrovic was like Roy, a volume shooter. Rudy is like Drexler, a slasher. Rudy needs a lot of passing to trick the defense, like Amare Stoudamire. Petrovic would just shoot it in your face even in a low-IQ game. Petrovic played McMillan style and Rudy plays Adelman style. Each would have done better on the other's Blazer team. You people overrate Petrovic. Because pros now play in international competiton, Europe has much tougher leagues now. He couldn't score 112 now. He became an NBA starter so fast because he went to the mediocre Nets, and because he had a hard-driving fundamentals coach in Bill Fitch. It took him great effort to average 20 ppg in the NBA, and he appeared terribly overexerted every game. He told a European friend that to get 20 in the NBA took him as much work as to get 50 in Europe. He was a barely-adequate NBA starter, but would never have become "great" by NBA standards. If he hadn't landed on the Nets with slavedriver Fitch, he'd have been a 14 ppg starter on a bottom-half team, unless the team already had a good SG.
