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Woody has not a clue about D or anything about basketball, when you work on D you says the team i have to play with can't score more than xxx points, and working on that i'll try to maximize my offense to make long offensive plays (about 19-23 seconds), with woody with the hawks we could see interesting D moves but wasn't enough. Woody is not even a good coach.

Quote: FIRE WOOODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3 years here, i haven't been around for about 6 months and the lemma is still the same "FIRE WOODY" LOL

That the 3 wise men brings you 2 things: "EVERYTHING and NOTHING. EVERYTHING that makes you happy and NOTHING that makes you unhappy. Happy 2008 to everyone.

Seems that Batista already learned the English language since i saw some pics of him talking with his new teammates, and a blog from Davis where he says i'm with my body Esteban. Woody did his work, in an interview here in Uruguay a month ago, a couple of days before he went to Boston a journalist asked him, What did you learn this 2 years playing for the Hawks? The answer was: English :-(

At Boston he will be a back up center, and taking a look at the 5s they have he will be playing a lot. Probably Garnett will play some minutes as a center for the celtics, but neither Perkins or Pollard are star players, so i guess Batman will get a lot of pt during the season. I was waiting 2 seasons to see him playing at 5, and he only did against Shaq and Yao, and BTW he did great.

Quote: Dr Z was right about this thread. .

Is fun to read this kind of stuff. Is hard to me to write and express myself in english, but is funny that you don´t know anything about the planet we live; not all of you, but the most. Here is a hint, my country Uruguay has a socialist government, as Brazil, Bolivia, France and Spain, so Zaza could be here or any other place, the ones i mentioned or the ones i didn't, no necessaily Russia LMAO.

Quote: Quote: Am I the only one who pictures Batista as the wrestler when they hear his name... Yes sir you..are. Five teams want him. I don't wan't to call you a damned fool...but it's difficult. Is hard for me to be objective in my opinions about Batista, but seems that other teams thinks that Batman could be a valuable player, not a star, but a valuable one, a good backup. I say this because the Celtics improve the offer for Batista yesterday. The suns and celtics are good offers for Batista because they don't have good backup centers; the suns are in conversation with Brian Skinner so maybe they could fill that spot with him, and apparently Este is the 1st option for the celtics. What makes me feel bad is that the Hawks should have offered him a contract and then make a trade. Another bad decission, and goes....

How many FA have so many contract offers? I have read in a blog a couple of days ago this "...why we should sign him if he didn't got pt in a poor team like Atlanta... oh is Atlanta, maybe we should sign him..." I'm trying to find that page so i put a link in here, but seems that fans from other teams tend to think that if a young player don't play here could be a good player somewhere else.

Quote: Batista has both range on his shot and interior toughness. He'd fit anywhere in the NBA as a reserve. Btw, he declined the offer from Boston, but still has offers from Indiana, Charlotte, Miami and Dallas. But looks like he will be signing for Phoenix.

Batista is flying tomorrow for a 2 or 3 days work out with the Suns. His agent here in Uruguay (Moglia) saids that if everything is ok Esteban will be signing with the Suns in the next few days. link

Quote: I agree for the most part...who TF is running this team? OK - to be more specific - if we cut Este there will be 4 or 5 teams waiting to chomp him up. Boston would KILL for a tough guy like him to back up the post. For what i know are 3 NBA teams interested in Batista; don't know much more. The thing is most of people in USA didn't see him playing well never, 'cause he didn't get much pt in the NBA; and since this tournament is in USA a lot of people was able to see him (i saw some people here changing the opinion about Batista). The key for him is the pt, he played in Las Vegas a lot better than he played in the PanAms. But he still has to work in some aspects of the game, he has a lot of TO, he compensate that with some steals, but he has to work in that aspect of the game. By the way, he is a 5 not a PF, but Woody tried to make him a PF, that was a mistake. He could've been the backup for ZAZA, or ZAZA as PF and Batista as C in some games.

Happy birthday Gray

Este had 25 points and 15 rebounds for a win 91-82. Here the link to the boxscore link

Since Este is a restricted agent the Hawks have to match an offer to Este from another team to keep him. So the trade is not likeable. You are talking about making him a new contract and then a trade... no way.