I would not let Greg "I am a big corn-fed mule with false teeth" Ostertag outhustle me for the rebound. I also would not let little Bryon Russell get the ball. If I was 6'11" and actually jumped for a rebound, I would get it. If I was 6'11" and always looked mad, I would run from house to house and scare little children. If I was 6'11" I would be really tall and no one could stop me. If I was 6'11" I would hunt down Will and make him turn clutchcity.net into a 24hr a day rimbaud post-a-thon. If I was 6'11"...
If I was 7', I would bump my head many many times. ------------------ I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes- Steven Wright
IF you were 6'11" you could be Bryant Reeves or Eric Montross or Ike Austin and these game infractions could be a regular occurance
DaDakota So much height and doing nothing with it. I'd hate to see their Short Equivalents? where is Dana barros and Kenny Anderson again? Rocket River
If I was 6'11" and Will was 7'1", I would then go to Clutch and tell him he had to turn clutchcity.net into a 24 hr a day rimbaud post-a-thon. And that he had to get rid of that beanstalk Will.
If Rimmy was 6'11" he'd have the dominating mad skillz of ... GeorgeMuresan. Rimmy, clutch cit's resident "my Giant" ------------------ "Whooaa." - Ted
I played against Ostertag in HS. I was at Plano East (played with former fab-five star Jimmy King) and he was at Duncanville HS. Ostertag was near skill-less then. He scored 26 and had 14 boards. Almost all his baskets were trash buckets and tip dunks. They ran no plays for him. He was just big, nothing else can be said. Anyway, that was my 5 sec. of fame. Thank you drive thru,
rimbaud -- LOL! Clutch has seen me on TV and can attest that the U.N. should be airlifting rice to me.
I too played against Ostertag in a Texas All-star league in 1989. Man, he could block our shots, but boy did he ever suck. I'm probably just sour grapes now. There was also a guy from Mayde Creek in Katy named Matt Wenstrom. He went to play for Dean Smith, then the Celtics, then probably as the greeter at Wal-Mart. Anybody ever hear of what happend to that guy? Jeff, conform!!! Conform, Jeff, Conform!!! I'll still respect after you're a dead non-conformist.
The last time I saw you on TV, Will, I couldn't tell if you were skinny or not, because the camera was never on you long enough. It was focused mostly on the ego of the editor of the National Review. Also, was it my imagination, or did the joker from the NY Post call you "Bill" at least once...? Rimbaud, if you were 6'11", we could draft you. If you weren't white.
Kagy: That was funny. If I was 6"11" I would get drafted and then be a bust because I am white and have two bum knees! I could be the new Eric Meeks. [This message has been edited by rimbaud (edited March 10, 2000).]
popeye and Will-- Stop it! I can't take it. Between "Cuttino shoots before he thinks" and "you and your big head"...
On Being 6'11": * No matter how good looking your date is, if she's under 6'3", you look like your dating your baby sister. * Everything looks small and far away to you (Don't look down when using a urinal!). * When you walk into an Oriental Restaurant for their "All You Can Eat" Buffet, the owners start crying: "You go home. You too big! Yankee boy, go home. Ohhhh YeahYeah!! Toooooo big, mista!!" * Even nice dogs bark at you. * No one wants to sit beside the "shade tree" when sunbathing at the beach. * No matter how delicate or artistic you are, when you dance ... it looks like you're wearing stilts and you're about to fall flat on your face. * You wish you had a penny (even a Canadian "copper") for everytime someone said: "How's the weather up there? Yuk,Yuk,Yuk!!" * All the good nicknames are taken already, so you have to settle for a hand-me-down "Stretch", "Icabod Crane", "Bean", "Bones", "Stick", "Sky"..... . * Taxi drivers just laugh, shake their head and drive on by. * Your Mother always smiles and calls you her "little blessing from God that took thirteen hours of labor". Your Dad always scowls and cuffs you in the back of the knees and says "you and your big head". * Special Order is your middle name and all the salespeople at "Big 'N Tall" send you Christmas cards, New Years greetings, Valentines hearts, St Patrick's Day shamrocks, Birthday balloons, cause your business alone put their kids through college. * Even if you don't know how to play basketball, everyone assumes you can. * Finally, but certainly not the least, people can always recognize you in a crowd or easily identify you ... so you can't get drunk in public(you look like a silly weeble-wobble anyway), you can't commit any crimes(is that the reason there are very few 6'11" criminals?), you can't chew tobbaco or spit in public, can't pick you nose in a crowd, and never, absolutely never, attempt to discretely scratch your privates ... it cannot be done cause it's always in someone else's face.
Funny, how this thing started as a grumbling about Cato and has now turned into this. Popeye: That was a really good post - you basically covered it all. I see that Clutch is keeping quiet - he must be scared of me.
It's probably not a good sign when the guy can't even spell his member name correctly. There is no 'Z' in the word "rules".
