re: Elbert Robinson: how is he developing?

He is not very athletic.

And his role--the big, immobile, aircraft carrier, seven-foot center--is becoming obsolete.

I mean, why have a guy 7-2 clogging up the middle who is slow and ponderous, when someone like Jarrell Martin is 6-10 with a complete game?

Shaq was an all-time great not because he was over 7 feet and huge, but because he was all that and could move, too.

Robinson is a Len Elmore-Rich Kelley-type center.

And the old classic, post-up, in-the-paint center is becoming as extinct as the passenger pigeon.

There is just not much place in this modern up-tempo game for them.