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If Kurt Thomas is resigned, and Splitter comes over, I see Mahinmi as the "sparkplug" bonner type guy.
Wouldn't be shocked if Bonner was shopped this summer.
like scola minutes would have been had he been a spur this year
If Kurt Thomas is resigned, and Splitter comes over, I see Mahinmi as the "sparkplug" bonner type guy.
Wouldn't be shocked if Bonner was shopped this summer.
Mahinmi foul trouble isn't a that big deal.
He is just an aggressive young big man. Most of these players commits a lot of fouls and I rather see that that a big who is soft and plays no defense.
Mahinmi isn't more foul prone than other D-League centers.
Yesterday, he picked 3 fouls in 6 minutes during the first half but it wasn't as abs as it sounds.
He made his first foul to avoid an easy fast break basket, his second was an offensive one on a drive and the third was made while he was fighting for a rebound. Only his third foul was a stupid one and should have been avoided.
There are times when you want a guy to use up fouls as long as he's trying hard to disrupt the other team's offense.
The 3/30 game at Bakersfield has been archived in case anyone else wants to watch it.
http://www.nba.com/dleague/news/webc...hive_0708.html
Thanks for the link.
Watching the game, Andre Barrett looks like a decent point. I can see him earning a contract in the NBA.
I'm still not sold on Mahinmi as an NBA player by next season. He doesn't assert himself. His board work is underwhelming and his team defense well below NBA level.
Or, to put this a little differently, Mahinmi could be a good player if he's allowed to develop. I'm not sure how sitting on the bench of the Spurs will help him or them long term.
you also caught him on an off night
Not the first time I've watched him play. This was, I think, the 4th Toros game I've watched this year. I know it's a small sample, but I've not seen anything that would make me think that Ian isn't, at this early stage of his career, more or less Cisco Elson with more potential. He has a way to go. I'm If he played 10 minutes a game, I bet he'd average three fouls.
A 21 year old that already plays as well as Francisco Elson with the potential to do much more?
Yes, well, I'm high on Mahinmi too. But I think talk of his making the rotation by the start of next season is a little too optimistic. And, perhaps, counter-productive. But I take your point.A 21 year old that already plays as well as Francisco Elson with the potential to do much more?
Is there a roster spot for him in these playoffs?
Thanks for the link.
Even in an off night I liked what I saw from Ian.
I like his activity on the court, how he works on setting screens, his shooting touch, how he managed his foul problem in the second half.
Of course, he still has a lot of things to learn.
I hope he will spent the next season between the Toros and the Spurs.
So, anyone else just see Ian's rejection of Will Conroy?
I remember last year everybody wanted Will Conroy. Whatever happened to him?
He's got five blocks, but the Toros are pissing the game away.
Since Ian is Spurs property, he's always on the 15 man roster, even when with the Toros.
Finally got to see half a game. Do the Toros always play so stupidly?
Nope. Tonight was special.
Monster game.... by stats anyway
27 points
12 boards
3 assists
6 blocks
How did he look
Ian has earned the label of "energy big man" next year no question.
Would be awesome if he could bring a Malik Rose like level of play off the bench next year.
From what I saw Ian looked good before the whole team choked the game away. A lot of his points were off dunks; he was just running circles around Pittsnogle's single coverage.
He makes some great plays but he's nowhere near consistenet in his level of play. It almost seems he mentally drifts in and out of the game. Doesn't seem the Toros do a very good job of getting him the ball in the low post when he's best established position. He doesn't seem to read the ball well getting rebounds. If he can get more consistent playing at the best levels he shows I'll be really happy. That jump hook has gotten even better from earlier this year. Some spectacular blocks and at times some very nice post defense.
Serge Angounou has started a blog. His first entry :
http://www.basketsession.com/blog_po...w/?id_post=440
o everyone. My name is serge angounou but my friends and family in cameroon call me SAS. Anyway, I was born on september 7, 1983 in yaounde , cameroon. I started to play basketball at the age of 12 or 13 because my mom louise use to buy me some basketball ball everytime she went across the ocean. But the funny thing is that, I always use those balls to play soccer with my friends until one day, my best friend ibrahim got mad at me me and told me that I was wasting my height. So we found a basketball court and played one on one all night. It was a funny game since we didn't have any experience at all hahahaha. Since that day, I fell in love with the game. I started to watch dvds on hakeem oladjuwon and m.jordan . It didn't take me to long to understand the game. So! Just like a joke, I started to play for my high school( college voght) and then one year after that, some very good friends of mine( cerval, vladimir and stephane djomdji) invited me to go try out for a professional team in cameroon(beac).
Everything went well since I made the team. My dream after that was to get in the nba, one way or another. By the grace of God, my mom and my very good friend olivier noah knew this amazing family from back in the day in Albuquerque (new mexico). So! The 13th of november 2000, I was in the USA living with the cox family who treated my cousin Giovani olomo and i like their own kids. It was hard for me because I couldn't speak english at the time, so it was hard to comunicated with the coach, my family and my new friends. Lucky for me that I was able to speak spanish to take some classes while I was learning. I thank God everyday for having my cousin Giovani over there with me at that time because he really helped me with the language. My juniors year in high school wasn't bad at all since I had 16ppg and 8rb. Giovani did a good job too. But we weren't satisfy with what we have accomplished .. So, we worked very hard with coach Garcia and herrera and travelled all over the us playing aau basketball and playing soccer with the school team to have us in better shape for the basketall season.Our senior season was amazing, our amarican family came to all the game to suport us. I wasn't feeling lonely anymore, I actually felt like I was at home with all the love I receive not only from my family in the us but also from the school and the entire state of new mexico. I end up the season with 26ppg and 14rbs and giovanie with 18ppg and 13rbs. We each had scholardships offers from several D1 school in the ncaa. So, giovanie decided to sign with a school in new york and I sign with the #1 party school in the country( arizona state) because I trusted the coaching staff. Everything was going good until I had a knee injurie on the 1st exibition game. It really slow me down. That was the first time I actually got mad at God. I didn't understand why he brought me from africa to the us the have me hurt my knee and miss the whole season. The funny thing is that, I didn't understand that he was doing that for a reason. I felt like he did that just to help understand this crazy world of women and parties. I am saying that because if I would have went to the nba after my freshmen, I probably would have end up in jail hahahahaha.
Anyway, I appreciate life and basketball a lot more now.I spent 5 years in college and got got a degree in business and spanish. Too bad that my last season in 2006 -2007 when I felt like I was super ready after spending the summer working on my inside and outside game, the coach that recruited me got fired. So! Now I had to deal with the new coach or transfer to a new school. I decided to stay because I felt like in life, it's better get the job done where ever you started. The season didn't go that well. I don't only blame the coach but I also blame myself for letting that happen. The good thing is that I didn't let slow me down. So! After the season, I went right back to the gym and started to get my self ready for my professional basketball carrer. College was a great experience, because I learned a lot and met some very good friend for life. Like ike diogu, robert alridge, allen morril, donald gray,florent bodin, nina from germany, isabel flores, anna madrid and my futur wife christelle abaa.
During the summer of 2007, I got myself an agent to get a job in france or anywhere else in europe playing basketball. He wasn't abble to get the job done so I had to go with plan B. I tried out for a couples of NBADleague team and got invite to training camp with all of them. I decided to go to albuquerque, new mexico since I went to high school over there. I made the final cut, but for what ever reason it wasn't the right fit for me since it wasn't God choice for me. I got release, from the organization. I didn't panic at all, instead, I was very happy about that because I was just too unhappy not because I wasn't playing enough, but because the coach didn't have any respect for me. Anyway, two days later, I got a call from the austin toros, wich is the team under the san antonio spurs where tonny parker and my very good friend ian mahinmi plays. I just felt so good about going to that team because I knew from the bottom of my heart that it was God choice for me. Everything was so organized and the coach treated all the players with a lot of respect. That's the reason the organization is number one in the league. Anyway, I am playing a lot more that and I am even starting for my new team. The teammates are amazing. But the coolest out of all of the is I think ian mahinmi because he is just very humble, he is defintly a hard worker, he respect everyone. Ian and I always give a hard time to the traineur everytime we do our individual workout and start to talk about the traineur in french hahahahah. One thing for sure is that I am never gone stop dreaming and I will never give up in life like my father told me.
Not a bad blog for someone relatively new to the language. Good find
But the coolest out of all of the is I think ian mahinmi because he is just very humble, he is defintly a hard worker, he respect everyone.
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