WallyWorld wrote:Anyone catch the recent athletic article on the summer league? If not, Hollinger explains what type of players summer league is geared toward...small, quick guards who shoot a lot. It's not to say other bigs, like this years top 3, didn't also ball out, but more why some players do not stand out, and do rather quite bad. Maybe this explains why Wendell Moore Jr and Matteo Spagnolo really didn't stand out much, that they are complementary players that do well with a different style of play and-or better team mates around them like Lip previously suggested....it doesn't really explain why Kevon Harris did pretty well, except he had the ball in his hands most of the time...
Harris did well because he was stronger and quicker than most of those he played against. And he has a nice handle. That combination made him very formidable at the Summer League level - which players claim is faster than G-League competition. It's likely that the Wolves' choice of AJ over Harris won't matter in the broader scheme of things. But I still think it was a mistake. Tim Connelly and I just don't appear to be in sync. :)
WallyWorld wrote:Anyone catch the recent athletic article on the summer league? If not, Hollinger explains what type of players summer league is geared toward...small, quick guards who shoot a lot. It's not to say other bigs, like this years top 3, didn't also ball out, but more why some players do not stand out, and do rather quite bad. Maybe this explains why Wendell Moore Jr and Matteo Spagnolo really didn't stand out much, that they are complementary players that do well with a different style of play and-or better team mates around them like Lip previously suggested....it doesn't really explain why Kevon Harris did pretty well, except he had the ball in his hands most of the time...
Harris did well because he was stronger and quicker than most of those he played against. And he has a nice handle. That combination made him very formidable at the Summer League level - which players claim is faster than G-League competition. It's likely that the Wolves' choice of AJ over Harris won't matter in the broader scheme of things. But I still think it was a mistake. Tim Connelly and I just don't appear to be in sync. :)
kekgeek1 wrote:Kevon Harris signed a 2-way deal with the Magic. Your dream is dead Lip
Good for Harris and the Magic. It seems like the Wolves had another player/s in mind. Let's see who they get.
Crap! Connelly continues to frustrate me by ignoring all of my recommendations. :)
I'm starting to wonder about that Wolves phone that you have. Might want to get it checked out. Are you sure you aren't dialing Rosas instead?
Monster, it's even worse. Apparently, I've been dialing David Kahn.
I bet he got a kick out of that. Lol How is he doing these days?
David says he's doing fine and is looking forward to returning to the Wolves as Connelly's successor after the Gobert deal fails. He said if he could re-do the 2009 draft knowing what he knows now, he would have done things differently. Instead of drafting Ricky and Jonny, he would have traded both picks and Kevin Love to move up to #2 and draft Hasheem Thabeet. He said that Thabeet, under coach Rambis, would have developed into a combination of Vlade Divac and Chris Webber.
kekgeek1 wrote:Kevon Harris signed a 2-way deal with the Magic. Your dream is dead Lip
Good for Harris and the Magic. It seems like the Wolves had another player/s in mind. Let's see who they get.
Crap! Connelly continues to frustrate me by ignoring all of my recommendations. :)
I'm starting to wonder about that Wolves phone that you have. Might want to get it checked out. Are you sure you aren't dialing Rosas instead?
Monster, it's even worse. Apparently, I've been dialing David Kahn.
I bet he got a kick out of that. Lol How is he doing these days?
David says he's doing fine and is looking forward to returning to the Wolves as Connelly's successor after the Gobert deal fails. He said if he could re-do the 2009 draft knowing what he knows now, he would have done things differently. Instead of drafting Ricky and Jonny, he would have traded both picks and Kevin Love to move up to #2 and draft Hasheem Thabeet. He said that Thabeet, under coach Rambis, would have developed into a combination of Vlade Divac and Chris Webber.
That's not the David Kahn I know. Thabeet wouldn't fit his vision of a face paced offense even with Rambis developing him! :)
What's kinda wild about that Draft is that Jrue Holiday is now easily the 2nd best PG from that deep draft class of PGs. Patty Mills is still a pretty good player in the league and a lot of those guys are done. Rubio is still around too. It could be said that Harden ended up being a PG and I believe I was someone who said he was a good playmaker but I wouldn't have said he was a PG. Tyreke Evans...it's really something that his career went the way it did.
