Remember Yogi.... and his defense?

[CruzDude]

I just can't get Yogi Stewart out of my mind the last 2 months. Here are the Kings at the bottom in defense and in many games providing a red carpet to the bucket, and there is Yogi languishing in Boston as they use Blount and a 2nd year kid out of high school.

His intensity and quickness on defense where pure joy. He was in the top 2 or 3 in the league in blocked shots that first year in 1997-98. A local kid who once was a Kings ball boy, undrafted out of Cal.

Not a threat on offense, but that is normally not the Kings problem. In the final year of his contract with the Celtics, still young and I can only imagine the enthusiasm he would bring to the Kings if he got back to Sacramento. How excited would he be to come back home? Intensity has been his mark. We need some intensity. And how great to get 2,3 or 4 blocks a game once and awhile.

Ahh, we can only dream. He may not be the solution to getting over the hump but he might be a bigger cog in our wheel than......... well we can only guess.

 

[Gary]

I wouldn't mind taking a chance on him. Invite him next year as a FA to tryout for the team. I don't think he would make the team, but it is worth giving the guy a tryout...

 

[KP]

I wouldn't mind taking a chance on him. Invite him next year as a FA to tryout for the team. I don't think he would make the team, but it is worth giving the guy a tryout...

Played against him in high school... they killed us. Gary did you take into account the teams they were playing against when Webb didn't play?(your signature)

 

[Kev.in]

He was a good help defender, 7 years ago, but if he can't earn playing time against Mark Blount, Raef LaFrentz and Al Jefferson... how is he going to dislodge minutes from the Webber/Miller/Songaila/Ostertag rotation?

 

[Gary]

Played against him in high school... they killed us. Gary did you take into account the teams they were playing against when Webb didn't play?(your signature)

Yes I am very aware.. It is kind of a joke that is between myself and someone I work with that frequents this board, and that is a Webber homer so I like to give her a hard time

 

[Bricklayer]

His knees are ruined, just a shell of the player he was once now, and he wasn't much of a player to start with. Yogi was a nice story when he was in Sacto, but he basically just had one year of part time starting for a terrible Kings team and that was that. If he hadn't signed a big contract off of that year, probably would not even be in the league anymore. He's certainly nowhere near as effective a rebounder/shotblocker as Tag, and Tag can't get off Rick's bench on a lot of nights.

 

[CruzDude]

Brick makes good sense. Had not followed him past 4-5 years but if he has not played much then why are his knees ruined? Anyway, as I said to begin, my only recollection was that first year and a bit the 2 years or so he was in Toronto. He did start and play quite a bit then. Soooo......... we can dream.