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I'm being positive: He'll be fun to watch, but after preseason, there will be few minutes to watch him. He's 2 years away from Will Barton's crazy rookie season. He's already age 22, so maybe he'll give good interviews.

Maybe I'll designate him my favorite player of the season, so I can defend him against all you guys when you turn against him about 3 weeks in.
 
I think anyone that's realistic realizes he will be a project that won't play this season. Hard to turn on that.
 
Scalma said:
I think anyone that's realistic realizes he will be a project that won't play this season. Hard to turn on that.
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Quite right. It's just an interesting story because it's not everyday a kid out of Community College has a shot to make an NBA roster. Extremely raw but with skills not a lot of players at 6'7" have. An extreme long-shot to be able to get those skills to a point of being polished enough to be part of an NBA rotation....but still a good story.
 
I realize this guy has skills you can't teach but what is his upside. A future All star, a quality starter, what?
 
ripcityboy said:
I realize this guy has skills you can't teach but what is his upside. A future All star, a quality starter, what?
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I saw a guy that has the potential to impact both ends of the court, so I'll say his upside is quality starter at least.
 
The one big thing that's still to be answered is does he have the drive to get better, and does he have the killer instinct to realize his potential. Otherwise well just have another batum on our hands.
 
Scalma said:
The one big thing that's still to be answered is does he have the drive to get better, and does he have the killer instinct to realize his potential. Otherwise well just have another batum on our hands.
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Personally I'd be fine with a cheaper version of Batum if that's his ceiling.
 
Scalma said:
The one big thing that's still to be answered is does he have the drive to get better, and does he have the killer instinct to realize his potential. Otherwise well just have another batum on our hands.
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From what I saw of Montero he displayed some skills that Batum simply does not possess. In the 7 years that we had the skinny frenchman, I have never seen him do an in and out dribble cross someone over and go to the rack. Hell I've been doing that since before my frosh year... Did Batum ever penetrate dish/kick??
 
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dviss1 said:
From what I saw of Montero he displayed some skills that Batum simply does not possess. In the 7 use that we had the skinny frenchman, I have never seen him do an in and out dribble cross someone over and go to the rack. Hell I've been doing that since before my frosh year... Did Batum ever penetrate dish/kick??
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Is that your fan perspective, or your referee perspective? I just want to know if I am qualified to agree with you.
 
When I mentioned batum I was more talking about mentality/not reaching your potential rather than comparing their games.
 
BBert said:
Penny Hardaway

:cheers:
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Body type is similar. Ball handling too. Penny had a great post game though but wasn't much of a 3pt shooter. I think montero will probably be a good shooter from outside. If he has a post game he hasn't shown any of it yet.
 
Scalma said:
Body type is similar. Ball handling too. Penny had a great post game though but wasn't much of a 3pt shooter. I think montero will probably be a good shooter from outside. If he has a post game he hasn't shown any of it yet.
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I'm quite happy with that skill set.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Really? Everyday in multiple threads you're going to keep hammering this?

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Ill stop at some point.

But I'd remind you that I wasnt the one who made the silly comment in the first place.

How long ago did "deal coming soon" happen? People still bring that up. Not complaining, mind you, just sayin
 
I seen some nice things from him but I think he suffers from some tunnel vision. That could be due to being so focused and wrapped around the idea of just making it. Or it could be an actual flaw. We won't really know until time goes on. But I did see somethings I liked from him skill wise. Shooting not one of them. But handles, Beating his man off the dribble and he had a couple of nice passes. But he is nowhere close to being ready. And actually for me, I almost wish it was four years earlier. The issues and rawness we are seeing are things we see from kids coming out high school. Not someone that has some experience playing organized ball at the age of 22. I wish he was more seasoned. It could be a sign of things to come.
 
Mediocre Man said:
Ill stop at some point.

But I'd remind you that I wasnt the one who made the silly comment in the first place.

How long ago did "deal coming soon" happen? People still bring that up. Not complaining, mind you, just sayin
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I thought TBPup said, "deal coming soon." Or was that, "there will be more."
 
Mediocre Man said:
I thought he was hold on to your shorts
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Guilty...lol. That turned into 200+ pages and ended up with the Zach Randolph trade. People that come to the Draft parties have heard about how that all came about. As for deals, I have a feeling there will be one come middle of August.
 
TBpup said:
Guilty...lol. That turned into 200+ pages and ended up with the Zach Randolph trade. People that come to the Draft parties have heard about how that all came about. As for deals, I have a feeling there will be one come middle of August.
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Ya, my infamous "deal coming soon" thread was on a different forum. I forget how many pages, but so, so many replies and views, like 40k or something like that. I caught grief for it, for some reason, but in reality, it was only 21 days later that Zach got traded. To this day i have never understood why I dver got grief, but oh well.

Sounds like maybe you and i got some similar info
 
Whatchu talkin' bout, Willis? Ain't no one got "secret info". Link or you're a lying slypokerdog.
 
TBpup said:
Guilty...lol. That turned into 200+ pages and ended up with the Zach Randolph trade. People that come to the Draft parties have heard about how that all came about. As for deals, I have a feeling there will be one come middle of August.
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So, "I have a feeling" is the new "hold onto your shorts"?

barfo
 
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