--- In feastlandofthegrizzlies@yahoogroups.com, "Valentin Serrano"
<valentin.serrano@l...> wrote:
> Hey there!!! Welcome to the group..there are some cool folks on
> this list..feel free to post game notes on here. Its great hearing
> about the GRIZZ!!!! yeah, Lowe is gone..I had mixed feeling about
> that but I think eventually it was neccessary. I liked Lowe a lot
> but he didn't win too much and I think it really wore on him.

Yeah Sidney Lowe was a nice enough guy and all, a link with
Vancouver, but the losing just got to him. One year in with the
Grizz, Hubie Brown's at least got the team competitive-so far!

Another link with Vancouver that IMO isn't missed would be Stu
(pid, as many have called him) Jackson. The "continuity" with the
Vancouver Grizzlies that Jackson provides is having traded, way back
in 1997, the 2003 Grizz draft choice for...Otis Thorpe. OTIS
THORPE?! Come on, Thorpe was likely never worth that, certainly not
in 1997. General managers make mistakes, and some have been known to
have traded high draft choices for players (George Allen, anybody?),
but that was a brainless move...George Allen at least won most
games, Stu Jackson never did. Now Jackson is long gone, to a job in
the NBA front office, likely a glad-handing sort of position with
few real responsibilities. I sort of remember Jackson from when he
was here in NY, pleasant enough personality but no great basketball
knowledge.

Unfortunately for the Grizz, the "Thorpe" draft choice wound up
being not #1, which they could have kept under the rules. But it was
still high, #2, which meant it was worth something for the Detroit
Pistons (who got it). Fortunately for the Grizz, they're still
finding ways to win. Oh, and Dickerson just retired. The world moves
on...

Anthony