JEROME MOISO SIGNS HUGE CONTRACT WITH RUSSIAN TEAM1?!?
Amid all this Brandon Jennings talk about bailing on the collegiate system to play in Europe, we have a nugget about our old friend Jerome Moiso. Apparently, he's dominating, 7ppg dominating, and signed a big deal to play for Russia... or so says Jonathan Givony, and European basketball consultant and architect behind DraftExpress.com.
"[Jennings] not strong enough and he's not experienced enough to run an elite club. He has a world of talent, and he'll be unbelievable down the road, but experience trumps athleticism and talent every day in European basketball," explains Givony. "I'd be very surprised if a top team offered him more than $100,000, at most, but stranger things have happened. Jerome Moiso just had his best year ever, and averaged seven points a game. He just signed a huge deal in Russia."
Good for Jerome! Apparently 7 points a game in a European league warrants a gigantic contract. Hell, Darko was taken #2 overall and he averaged something like TWO points a game. European games must be low-scoring affairs. Anyway, Moiso never really got momentum in the NBA... although he was the 11th pick it was in a pretty friggin' awful year (2000) and he joined a miserable team that didn't need him. 2000 might have been the peak of the "draft for upside potential" movement. (Kenyon Martin, Stromile Swift, Darius Miles, Marcus Fizer... you get the point... although Michael Redd and Eddie House were taken in the second round.) Moiso was also a victim of Rick Pitino's idiotic worldview that you could basically run a college team in the pros and be successful. Pitino's full court press went over about as well as a barbecued donkey penis sandwich would at a neighborhood cookout. Pitino also didn't seem to notice that people playing Moiso's position were every bit as athletic as he was but outweighed him by at least 50 pounds and weren't from France. It also didn't help Moiso's career that Pitino was going to resign by the All-Star break and the Ukraine Train (Vitaly Potapenko) had a stranglehold on the center position for the C's. (And deservedly so!) Also working to Moiso's detriment was the fact that his face is only capable of making one single expression, and that expression is "I don't care." It was pretty off-putting for everyone involved. Anyway, Moiso played a total of 135 minutes for the Celtics and was gone the next year. He topped out at 4ppg with the Hornets two years later and was out of the league by 2005. We had heard rumors of him playing overseas, but nothing of this magnitude!
And, one more reason why I wish I could make love to the internet, a Youtube clip of other former Celtic Tyus Edney and Moiso dominating some snaggle-toothed, cologne-wearing, techo-loving Nordic pansies in a European game.
We here at I*Heart*Celtics extend our congratulations and best wishes to Jerome (and Tyus, for that matter). We also extend our middle fingers to Rick Pitino.Source URL: https://ledger-heath.blogspot.com/2008/07/anything-is-possiiiiiiiibllllle.html
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