Greg Ostertag?

[jdub1660]

Just read that he wants to make a comeback as a backup center on a Championship contending team. How bout Boston? I know we just picked up Sheldon a while back, and Greg is a few years out of retirement, BUT He's taller, stronger and nba smarter.
He at least deserves a workout. And if that all worked out, he'd be a beast C behind Perk so Sheed could play more PF. Plus I am talking more playoff time when BBD is tired or in foul trouble.

[nickagneta]

Just read that he wants to make a comeback as a backup center on a Championship contending team. How bout Boston? I know we just picked up Sheldon a while back, and Greg is a few years out of retirement, BUT He's taller, stronger and nba smarter.
He at least deserves a workout. And if that all worked out, he'd be a beast C behind Perk so Sheed could play more PF. Plus I am talking more playoff time when BBD is tired or in foul trouble.

He hasn't played for 3 years. Marbury, a star and younger, didn't play for half that time and was awful. Just how in sync do you think Oetertag's game is going to be given he has been missing for three years and his game wasn't really great to begin with? Pretty big stretch in my estimation.

[ChampKind]

Ostertag was a lump on the court when he was young and healthy.  Maybe he'll get some burn in the Puerto Rican league.

[indeedproceed]

Just read that he wants to make a comeback as a backup center on a Championship contending team. How bout Boston? I know we just picked up Sheldon a while back, and Greg is a few years out of retirement, BUT He's taller, stronger and nba smarter.
He at least deserves a workout. And if that all worked out, he'd be a beast C behind Perk so Sheed could play more PF. Plus I am talking more playoff time when BBD is tired or in foul trouble.

He hasn't played for 3 years. Marbury, a star and younger, didn't play for half that time and was awful. Just how in sync do you think Oetertag's game is going to be given he has been missing for three years and his game wasn't really great to begin with? Pretty big stretch in my estimation.

I agree. These old pros get a little restless and think they can come back and ball. Someone should give him a workout, if only so he realizes he can't do it anymore and goes back home.

[Eja117]

I have my doubts that he can even walk. He was virtually the most unathletic player I ever saw. He makes Big Baby look like a gazelle

[greenwise]

Ostertag was a lump on the court when he was young and healthy.  Maybe he'll get some burn in the Puerto Rican league.

Some respect for the Puerto Rican league, please

[jasail]

fwiw i heard Eric Montross is available???

[MrTripleDouble10]

I always thought he looked like "The Mummy"

[RAcker]

Heck, if we're shooting for old Utah Jazz centers, how about Mark Eaton?  He looked pretty good at the Hall of Fame induction ceremony (Well, I saw him able to rise out of a chair from a seated position). 

[Master Po]

It probably took Greg Ostertag three years to heal the giant gaping wound in his backside from Jerry Sloan ripping him a new one everytime he stepped on the court.

Having suffered through watching him play at Kansas, I would care never to see him again in a uniform. His sucked in college, he sucked in the NBA and he would certainly suck in a comeback.

Look up "underperforming big white goofy stiffs" in the NBA dictionary and his picture is right there. I look like the great white hope compared to him and my "get up and go" has "got up and went".

The bottom of his basketball shoes have seen less daylight than a cave fish.



Next!!!!!

[Chris]

While I would love to see him on the floor, for pure entertainment value, he has no spot on this team.  Let him go back to the Jazz.

[ChampKind]

Ostertag was a lump on the court when he was young and healthy.  Maybe he'll get some burn in the Puerto Rican league.

Some respect for the Puerto Rican league, please

Any place Dan Langhi AND Matt Frejie can get some quality PT is ok in my book.

[footey]

Look up "underperforming big white goofy stiffs" in the NBA dictionary and his picture is right there. I look like the great white hope compared to him and my "get up and go" has "got up and went".

M Po is right. I just found it in my dictionary, next to "Big Black Stiffs", which of course had a picture of Eddie Curry.

[nickagneta]

Look up "underperforming big white goofy stiffs" in the NBA dictionary and his picture is right there. I look like the great white hope compared to him and my "get up and go" has "got up and went".

M Po is right. I just found it in my dictionary, next to "Big Black Stiffs", which of course had a picture of Eddie Curry.

Do we really need to racially profile NBA stiffs? I'm sure they come in all shapes, sizes, races, colors, and uniforms.    Well, at least kinda. I don't think the need for white and black here is necessary but I do agree both Ostertag and Curry are stiffs.

[Master Po]

Well - didn't mean to make it racial. I am white and he is white so I was just calling him out as he used to be embarassing to me as a white guy.

I think a few years ago some guy named Larry Bird said he was always offended when a coach sent a white guy out to guard him.

In the peak of my playing days (after HS) in pick up street ball on the mean streets of some rough areas of Kansas City I was the only white guy playing. I kidded around with the guys I played with that they couldn't stop the white guy. We gave each other grief about the white guy-black guy thing.

Once I traveled to a pretty rough part of Kansas City to play a game with some of my "street-ballers" and once again I was the only white guy (probably for a several mile radius). These new black ballers refused to me play because I was white. I thought it was funny (I didn't argue however).

I just never really got caught up when playing basketball about PO-litical correctness in racial terms. I can dish it out and I can take it. I never mean any harm by it and I have never had my butt kicked over it either.

Peace Brother