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KG4Ever wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:26 am

Lipoli390 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 10:45 pm

KG4Ever wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 9:21 pm Jason Preston was waived by the Clippers. He is 24 years old. He had a nice G League season last year. In the G League, Preston averaged 16.7 points, 6.7 assists, 5.2 rebounds and 1.8 turnovers while shooting 56% inside the arc and 37% beyond it.

He has a 6"8 wingspan, so he's long like TC likes. He is a very good rebounder for a guard which showed in college and G League. He's put up impressive assists to turnovers. The last two years of college, he shot 40.7 and 39.0% from threes. I wish we had an open spot for him as I like him as much as anyone among Ryan, Vit, Keels, Nix and Martin, though he's a bit older than everyone but Matt Ryan who is 26.

Did we already fill our 15th roster spot and 3rd two-way slot?

I think our two way spots are full with Garza, Clark and Ryan. We can always cut Ryan and open up the spot. Our 15th spot is open. We do have a full training camp roster at 21, so if we brought in an outside guy for our 15th spot, we'll need to cut one of our training camp guys.

kekgeek wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 9:50 pm Vit has been cut

Sundog wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 9:48 am Like alot of us, I loved what I saw from Nix the other night. Solid PG play, hit 3s consistently, was under control, no frantic energy to his game. But I can’t say I even heard of him before coming to the Wolves. Why has he bounced around?

KG4Ever wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 10:21 am

Sundog wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 9:48 am Like alot of us, I loved what I saw from Nix the other night. Solid PG play, hit 3s consistently, was under control, no frantic energy to his game. But I can’t say I even heard of him before coming to the Wolves. Why has he bounced around?

I wouldn't say he bounced around as he only played with the Rockets before the Wolves. He was actually a five star recruit, that committed to UCLA, but then decommitted and then decided to start his career in the G League. Going from high school to G League is tough as you look at high end draft picks Scoot and Jalen Green who both struggled their first year. Similarly, Daishen struggled at G League and Rockets at age 19, but his second year in G League at age 20 he was a star there, but he still struggled in Houston. Houston decided they had too many young projects (even TyTy Washington and Usman Garuba, recent first round picks, were let go) and brought in vets Fred VanVleet, Dillon Brooks, Aaron Holiday and Reggie Bullock and Coach Ime Udoka to try to win now. Nix was a casualty of that.