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This is an impossibility, we've been informed by the ST experts that he is to bulk up and play the 4. Kyle may have a high BBIQ, but he needs to get his hearing checked.
This is an impossibility, we've been informed by the ST experts that he is to bulk up and play the 4. Kyle may have a high BBIQ, but he needs to get his hearing checked.
Or his priorities realigned, right?
Rookies will never learn
You mean Pop doesn't agree with BNSF?
He is painfully slow. Like current version of Paul Pierce slow. Damn.
We should give him a nickname that properly reflects your novel observation.
Don't know how to embed videos from NBA.com on here, but here's a link to his interview in between practices:
http://www.nba.com/spurs/video/14070..._kyle_anderson
One thing I found interesting/cool - him saying that a lot of things he's been learning in San Antonio have already been taught to him by his dad (his dad was his basketball coach growing up). I think he could potentially be a very quick learner. He has a high BBIQ and seems to already be ahead of most rookies in terms of knowing the right play to make.
I honestly can't remember the last time I was this excited for SL to start.
What about "Slow-Mo"? When he plays it kinda looks like he's moving in slow-motion, so it makes sense, no? I think it should be his official nickname!
I think it pretty much already is and has been since grade school.
You missed the implied blue font...
.....guess I should've made my post blue
whoops!
Do people get that Kyle Anderson's current position and the position he eventually plays can be different? He's played PG for his whole life, and has been able to do it because he's an excellent passer and has great vision. The PF talk here is based on the fact he could bulk up a little, and guard the weaker of the remaining forwards(future planning, both Kawhi and LJC seem like they'll be good defensive combo forwards), while providing rebounding. The fact he's good at that big man skill is promising for his ability to play as a PF in the future.
Right now, he doesn't have the strength to play there. He'll be a PG/wing in summer league, and move to PF as he gets older. Saying the Spurs view him as a PG-SG-SF now and the belief of people like Chinook and myself that he will be a PF eventually aren't necessarily contradictory.
Most of us get that, especially since we've seen Diaw move from PG to C over the course of his career. But some folks get their jollies by wallowing in evanescent little pockets of victory like fish flopping around in an evaporating puddle. Let them have their fun. I just want Anderson to succeed, wherever he plays.
I think Pop's going to see if Anderson's weight loss can help him play on the perimeter. I doubt he can guard PGs, but if he can stay in front of big two-guards and small-forwards, perhaps a symbiosis can develop with Green and Leonard. He's going to get a chance to play where he's thusofar succeeded. But if he can't defend out on the perimeter, he won't play there. That's just how Pop works.
Michael Jordan moved to small forward, Tim Duncan, Diaw have migrated, and the list could go on for a while. This is a natural progression over a long period of time for many players. A lot of 20 year olds don't have the physique for the 4 (or 5) position. Or, they lose the physique for the others. No surprises there. And, the jury is still out. Anderson might get cut in time because he can't play 1-4 at all in the NBA.
But, yes. I believe people get that. What you have done is make a very measured and modest statement. I can't speak for those that chuckled at my comment. I can only speak for myself. My comment was directed toward a segment of the population that uses blanket and/or definitive statements like "can't", "won't", and "never", etc. even in the face of evidence to the contrary provided by history and maybe even RC Buford on draft night, etc.
If a person makes these types of statements, yes, it is sometimes entertaining to poke fun at them when they are contradicted by professionals or otherwise proved wrong.
If you aren't in the group that said Anderson can't play at those positions, or won't play at those positions, etc. then the comments and chuckling are not directed at you, and there's no reason to be butthurt over it as Chinook especially seems to be, even after making a very rational and modest statement that would seem to show he's not in the subset of people in question. But, who knows. Maybe you both made more radical comments, previously, and are now modifying your positions after the fact, thus the defensive posture. Whatever the case, I had neither of you in mind, specifically, when I made the quip. I leave as an exercise for someone else to determine who made the specific comments. It's very early, and I had to let the dog walk herself, so I had a few minutes to kill.
Lol @ the butthurt though. Stop hurting basketball feelings LCC
Athletic limitations shouldn't be as big of a deal for a guy his size. Usually the guys who have issues with it are smaller point guards a la Peyton Siva.
Official Press release of signing
http://www.nba.com/spurs/san-antonio...-kyle-anderson
Don Harris @DonHarris4
Spurs rookie Kyle Anderson's deal is for 4 years 5.5 mil. But only 1st two years are guaranteed. Great bargain if it turns out he can play.
Less than 1.5 mil a season for a guy who was thought of at one point to be a top 15 talent in perhaps the deepest draft in history.
Good deal, from his small sample size last night he's looking to make the pass and engage the offense which is needed off the bench.
So that's a 120% scale deal, but with the third year unguaranteed. Reasonable tradeoff for both sides.
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