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good handles, likes to pass, ill take it!
Hey man, don't belittle that particular dunk.... It turned the tide of belief and morale for that series.
good handles, likes to pass, ill take it!
Wow! Nice pickup! He's actually good. I picked him up last Fantasy when Collison was out.
The real "snake in the grass" >>>>>>>>>>> Spurs front office!!!!!
hahahahahahahahaha
What a steal for the Spurs.
Don't judge me. I watch a lot of Kings games.
He's all hustle. Solid jumper, gets to the basket, athletic, and solid defensively. Nothing stands out but just an all around game.
Yeah, that was what I thought of, but it doesn't make sense unless they had to make room for Rajon Ron HO LEE ! YOU ARE RIGHT!
Former 2nd rnd pick for a future 2nd rounder. be a solid 3rd pg and cojo replacement,not the best 3point shooter I think
HIs last 10 games, looked like he filled the stat sheet.
cheap contract (~500k?).
Salary dump to go after Josh Smith tbh.
Great pickup for a third stringer...
But does he have a song?
http://www.nbadraft.net/players/ray-mccallum
Strengths: McCallum is a well-rounded "stat sheet stuffer" point guard who can both score and distribute ... Has good size and strength for his position, standing 6'1 and weighing a muscular 190 ... An excellent transition player, McCallum can both score and distribute on the break ... Has a high basketball IQ and knows how to get his teammates involved ... Makes up for his average speed with his ability to use his body to get open looks around the rim. Has excellent body control overall ... Can be a good scoring point guard (18.7 PPG last season) ... Very good ball handler ... A good floor general and a coach's son ... Draws a lot of contact and gets to the line at a high rate ... Underrated athlete who has a 40 inch vertical and deceptive explosiveness ... Solid, if not spectacular passing ability and floor vision ... Good at finding teammates cutting to the basket ... Quick hands (1.9 SPG) last season and good lateral quickness make him a solid defender ... Plays well without the ball, making sharp cuts to get good looks in the lane ... Rebounds well for a point guard (5.1 RPG last season) ... Despite playing in the Horizon League, performed well against good compe ion ... McCallum is a very durable player, as evidenced by 37 or more minutes in each of the last 14 games of the season ...
Weaknesses: Doesn't do any one thing particularly well, as there are several more talented shooters, playmakers, defenders, and athletes among this point guard class ... Needs to improve his shooting ability, as he shot only 32% from behind the 3pt line last season ... Shot low percentages on all jump shots ... Doesn't have great length or physical tools, which will limit him at the next level ... Has an awkward shooting motion and releases the ball somewhat slowly ... Is too prone to taking pull-up jumpers early in the shot clock, especially when he is not a particularly efficient spot-up shooter ... Needs to become a better free throw shooter. Shot just 72% from the line last year...
After a solid sop re season, Detroit’s Ray McCallum has continued his strong play as a junior, showing steady improvement in his production, but being unable to secure a return to the NCAA tournament after losing in the semifinals of the Horizon conference tournament.
As we’ve mentioned before, McCallum isn’t dynamic from a physical standpoint, with just average size and length for an NBA point guard prospect, but he’s gotten stronger over the last couple years and he’s a solid athlete, with good speed, quickness, and elevation, once he’s built up a full head of steam.
Playing for his father at Detroit, McCallum’s role hasn’t changed much over the course of his college career, but he’s gradually taken on more of the scoring load, increasing his shots per-40 each season, while shooting career high’s from the field as a junior, both inside and outside the 3-point line.
His perimeter shooting improvements are particularly encouraging, after shooting a very poor 24% from 3-point range as a sop re. He connected on 33% of his 3’s this season on over four attempts per game, and this is an area he’ll likely need to continue to improve in order to find a role in the NBA, as he still only made 29% of his overall jump-shots on the season.
McCallum actually shoots better off the dribble than off the catch at this stage, showing the ability to fluidly pull-up off the dribble in the mid-range or from behind the 3-point line, and doing a nice job of getting his defender on his heels to create space to rise up for his jump shot. He still takes some ill-advised pull-up jumpers at times, but he should be able to improve his efficiency with better shot selection on a team where he isn’t forced to carry such a heavy scoring load.
McCallum has excellent ball-handling skills, plays the game at a nice pace and shows great poise. Doubling as his team’s primary ball-handler and top scoring option, he generally does a very good job taking care of the ball and making good decisions, as evidenced by the fact that he turns the ball over on only 12% of his used possessions this season, second among all point guards in our top 100 rankings.
As we’ve written before, McCallum is at his best when he can get out in transition, but he’s also done a better job this year of being more shifty off the dribble to create in the half-court, where he attacks the basket hard and finishes effectively at the rim, even through contact, as he’s connecting on an impressive 61% of his shots in the basket area.
In today’s pick-and-roll heavy NBA, McCallum will need to improve as the ball-handler in these sets, as he’s scoring only .73 points per possession on pick-and-rolls this season. He lacks the burst of speed to turn the corner and get into the paint with regularity, and he also has a tendency to come off the screen and settle for contested jump shots. In all fairness, though, some of his struggles can be attributed to poor floor spacing, giving him less room to utilize his craftiness off the bounce, which would likely change at the NBA level.
The extent of McCallum’s playmaking ability may be something that we haven’t fully seen during his time at Detroit, given that he’s also his team’s go-to scorer and shot-creator. He has an outstanding feel for the game and shows good passing instincts in the open floor and driving-and-kicking to open shooters, but he doesn’t function as a true point guard for his team at the college level, so it’s difficult to gauge how much that might change playing with different personnel.
As we noted before, McCallum’s average size and length may limit him somewhat as a defender at the NBA level, but he moves well laterally, has quick hands and anticipation skills, and shows good toughness. He competes hard for the most part, and should be able to focus more energy on the defensive end with less of a burden on him offensively.
While McCallum has played in a less compe ive league than many of the prospects he’ll be compared to, he is far from unknown, being that he was a McDonald’s All-American coming out of high school and has been on the radar for some time now. Detroit also played a strong non-conference schedule this season, including games against Pittsburgh, Syracuse, St. John’s, Miami, Temple, and Wichita State, giving NBA teams plenty of opportunities to evaluate him against stronger compe ion. Scouts will likely be disappointed by his early exit and poor showing in the Horizon conference tournament, but it’s likely that his team will get an invite to the NIT, where he could certainly use the added exposure.
McCallum’s inconsistent outside shooting, lack of elite physical tools and playmaking ability likely limits his upside as an NBA prospect, but his overall skill level and high basketball IQ at the point guard position should give him a strong chance to get drafted, whether he decides to enter this June’s draft or play his senior season at Detroit.
From DraftExpress.comhttp://www.draftexpress.com/#ixzz3fRtHmeXL
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Looks like he has potential, good trade for the spurs.
I agree with the McCallum love, but he actually takes up cap space. He signed a three-year min deal and is in the final year of that deal. So he doesn't count as a min contract in any context.Pretty awesome for the same cost as a roster charge
Now just need another shooter and a big. Go RC Go.
Kings need to make room for Josh Smith and they are already front loaded with perimeter players
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Has a high basketball IQ and knows how to get his teammates involved
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thats enough for me!!!! lets rock!!!!!!!!!!!
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Go Spurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrsssss go!
Guess the FO saw something they liked. Prolly happened in the game he torched Enrique in.
McCallum can ball a little bit... Great pickup for a 3rd string PG. He's on a cheap contract and only lost a 2nd rounder. PATFO strike again.
But he doesn't take up much cap space, right? He is only the difference between the roster charge that takes up cap space and his contract.
Plus, him taking up cap space isn't a huge deal - Spurs shouldn't need the cap space for anything functional now that we know Danny/Patty/KL/LMA/Tim/Manu are safe.
oh god, we are getting better and better by the week!!!!!!
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