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Message: [QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 61501, member: 716"] To wit: the board posters who [U]insist[/U] that Donte Greene was an above-average defender and point to his blocks-per-game average as evidence. Etan was good. Mookie was very good. I remember sitting around in November 2004 with a couple kids who'd played AAU ball with Mookie, boldly predicting that he was going to take 25 of Craig Forth's minutes for the rest of the year and that we were a lock for the Final Four in St. Louis. They told me that Watkins was as offensively soft and passive as anyone they played against. Might've been a little hyperbolic, but he got hurt a month later, missed half a dozen games, and didn't contribute much (except for nearly single-handedly beating UConn in the conference semi-finals). We didn't make our Final Four, and Mookie's offensive game never took off like I thought it did. But he did develop into one of the best defenders in the league. [/QUOTE]