<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cpawfan @ Jun 25 2008, 09:41 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>1) Dorsey is Boone lite, lite, lite and short, short, short and dumb, dumb, dumb</div>
Maybe, if you take a few shorts out of there and take out one dumb, subtracting Boone's ugly of course. And you take away two of those lites, because one is sufficient to describe Dorsey's game, then you'll have an accurate picture of Joey Dorsey.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>2) He would be a horrible pick at #40 because there are plenty of better big men that are out of the NBA right now</div>
Such as? A few Euro bigmen who won't come over for less than $5 mill five years down the road? This draft has a lot of great big men, but they're all in the #11-30 range. Once you reach the middle of the second round, Dorsey's the best you'll do.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>3) He should be stronger than college big men since he so much older than the rest of them</div>
Forget comparing him to collegiate big men, he'd be in the upper echelon of strength as soon as he steps into the NBA.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>4) Lets look at the big games where Dorsey was a complete non-factor for the Tigers, especially after opening his mouth</div>
You mean one game, as in the game versus Greg Oden and Ohio Statel, right? Well, yeah, Dorsey was a dumbass for smack talking Oden, but do you really have other examples of this, or are you just bringing up this one game, as if you think it has any significance on the guy's future?
Bottom line is that Dorsey doesn't have amazing upside. In fact, he's old enough to be Derrick Rose's father. He's also never going to contribute much offensively, if at all, on the next level. You also have to worry about the guy's character, because he kept getting into trouble on the collegiate level after having a lot of chances to straighten himself out. However, through it all, he's still a valuable niche player. At this point in the draft, you can roll the dice and hope for the one in a million second round stud like Redd or Ginobili, or you can think practically and take a player who will help you in the short term by doing one or two key things. Dorsey can rebound and defend with the best of them, and he'll bring a very competitive edge as well as a hunger that the Nets have seemed to lack recently. He's not going to average 10+ ppg soon, but realistically, I wouldn't be surprised if he averaged 6-7+ rpg soon, in limited playing time, and this late in the draft, is that not good enough?
