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There are lots of sportscasters saying this very same thing.
But all of them are wrong and the armchair poopooing fans on ST are right and know better.
Go figure!
Which team or player was the biggest winner of the draft?
http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/draft...rs-losers-more
Amin Elhassan: I can't think of a better fit than Kyle Anderson to the Spurs, because he went to the one team that could extract maximum benefit from his abilities, and they got a high-IQ guy (maybe highest in this draft) who "gets" how they play. The irony of course is if he went higher, he would have landed in a worse situation and maybe wouldn't even develop. Literally might be the difference between having a 12-plus year career and being out of the league before the end of his rookie-scale contract.
Which pick was the biggest steal of the draft?
Elhassan: Besides Anderson, I have to go with Denver snatching Nurkic at No. 16 and Harris at No. 19. Harris was closely compared to Nik Stauskas as far as caliber of talent, and yet he was selected 11 picks after Stauskas. The Nuggets traded their lottery pick and ended up getting two lottery talents out of it.
There are lots of sportscasters saying this very same thing.
But all of them are wrong and the armchair poopooing fans on ST are right and know better.
Go figure!
Last edited by xmas1997; 06-28-2014 at 10:06 AM.
Well that is indeed harsh. Get drafted by the wrong team and you'll end up out of the NBA and playing elsewhere in the world.
Austin Daye is near the end of this rope, if the Spurs don't guarantee his contract in 2 days, he may find himself forever out of the NBA.
I fully agree, SA is the perfect place for him, they can truly bring out his full potential
I'm really curious to see the changes, if any, the Spurs make this year.
They usually keep the same team, barring retirements, to give them an opportunity to repeat.
Aztecs beat UCLA when Anderson was a freshman, and I also saw him play this year in the NCAA playoffs, he's a pure shooter who sits back and waits for his openings. Definitely doesn't have Kawhi's motor, and he doesn't bang the boards.
Green, mills , Sjax, Baynes, Neal, Temple, Gee, etc. where all guys that are in the league and their careers would probably over if not for the Spurs. Spurs are hands down the best team at developing players.
From what you saw in one game, but I beg to differ. He averaged over 8 boards a game in BOTH of his UCLA seasons, and had 7.5 defensive boards last year, something the Spurs really stress. I honestly would have drafted him at 30 just for his rebounding.
He made a good leap in all areas in his sop re season. He was also used much more effectively.
I wouldn't take anything that Elhassan says seriously.
Regarding this I love this piece:
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/th...ife-is-unfair/
Hopefully his defensive rebounding from college translates over to the NBA. Having a guy with both passing and defensive rebounding skills could generate a lot of long outlet passes and fast breaks.
Hoping for the best, but the dude looks a little soft in the shoulders for an NBA career.
Rebounding and three point shooting are the two stats that most readily translate from one level to the next in basketball.
I am also a University of Utah fan and got to watch Kyle the past two years. This was a great pick. His rebounding is very solid. I don't get your criticism at all?
how do you come to this conclusion?
Hollinger's draft analysis over the years. Definitely worth the reading.
Normally passing is the one that translates well to the NBA. So i believe he will be good on the glass.
Exactly, and he's got a myriad of other skills to boot. As has been said over and over again, you can't teach rebounding and good college rebounders typically translate well to the pros. A guy listed as a guard (we know he's a tweeter) who is 42nd in the nation where few of the guys above him play in a major conference deserves to go very early in the draft. Only thing holding him back is his mobility on D.
Put him on the weakest perimeter guy and let him poach some steals (those numbers are good vs. other draftees with bad defensive reps) and allow him to crash the defensive glass. He may come into the league as a better rebounder than Boris. A bench group of Mills-Manu-Marco-Anderson-Diaw-Baynes-Splitter (depends on if Diaw or Splitter starts) plus whoever is grabbed with the MLE is plain scary. Not to mention CoJo will be in a battle to dress each night.
If he keeps that mentality, he may not last very long
This guy's upside is to be another Paul Pressey but 4 inches taller and a little more versatility.
Umm, he averaged nearly 9 boards a game as ostensibly a point guard, so please stop making pretentious posts about things you clearly don't understand.
He's bigger than Pressey, rebounds better, and shoots better. Not the defender, though.
Pressey played for 11 years. Even if that's Kyle's ceiling, and I don't believe that for a minute, you're talking a decade plus career for a 30th pick.
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