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hasoos said:
No, but I think about 1 out of 3 turning to gold is pretty reasonable. How many have turned into Gold since Roy?
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Greg, Rudy, Batum and Bayless weren't exactly bad picks. KP might have fucked up the 09 draft, but he did very well in 07 and 08.
 
MickZagger said:
Whatever happened to Garbajosa's NBA career. I thought he had a pretty good rookie year with Dallas.
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Dallas? Didn't he only play for Toronto?
And the answer is: he got pretty seriously injured playing for Spain, the Raptors got pissed off with him, and they mutually agreed to tear up his contract.
 
hasoos said:
No, but I think about 1 out of 3 turning to gold is pretty reasonable. How many have turned into Gold since Roy?
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Batum is on the verge of it. Especially considering where we took him. I'd say Cunningham relative to where he was selected is pretty great as well.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Dallas? Didn't he only play for Toronto?
And the answer is: he got pretty seriously injured playing for Spain, the Raptors got pissed off with him, and they mutually agreed to tear up his contract.
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Thats what I meant. Toronto. For some reason I typed Dallas.
 
Nikolokolus said:
I was flaggerbasted that we didn't take Casspi ... part of that "out-smarting himself" that I think KP may have done.
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Casspi isn't all that. I don't think he'll end up being better than Dante. I think he looked better as a rookie because he'd been in pro leagues before, but he's got Matt Harpring as his ceiling.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Casspi isn't all that. I don't think he'll end up being better than Dante. I think he looked better as a rookie because he'd been in pro leagues before, but he's got Matt Harpring as his ceiling.
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meh, I think he's already better than Harpring.

Harpring was just a pesky defender and a played the tough guy role. Casspi is a perimeter player who can take it to the hoop as well. I think Casspi led the league for awhile last year in the 3FG%
 
hasoos said:
Actually the better Rudy plays, the more proof he was sandbagging games when playing with the Blazers.
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How so? He had problems with injuries and was in a slump, but the last couple games of the playoff series he started to connected. Especially the last game. I was surprise Nate didn't go with him more because he did have the hot hand. He also will get a lot more mins which always helps a shooter.
 
mgb said:
How so? He had problems with injuries and was in a slump, but the last couple games of the playoff series he started to connected. Especially the last game. I was surprise Nate didn't go with him more because he did have the hot hand. He also will get a lot more mins which always helps a shooter.
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Stop defending our scapegoat!
 
Maybe some scout will think Jose and Rudy are amazing and want to swing a three way deal and give up cap and picks!!!
 
Pinwheel1 said:
Rudy was really good about attacking the rim......until Ariza got into his head.
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That's what I thought, too. After looking at the numbers, it doesn't seem so. Before the foul on 3/10/09, his FG% was 42%. After the foul, it was 43% for the rest of the season.

If he was shying away from attacking the rim, you'd think it would've dropped afterward as he took fewer close-in shots, but it actually increased.

It was the next year when things went to shit and he completely forgot about going into the middle (and shot an appalling 37%).

I don't know what happened that summer. Maybe the injury he got from the Ariza foul got exacerbated in summer practice. Maybe he put too much faith in that joke of a tear drop he worked on.

But he actually finished out his rookie year pretty strongly. The downward spiral began immediately at the start of the second season.
 
mgb said:
How so? He had problems with injuries and was in a slump, but the last couple games of the playoff series he started to connected. Especially the last game. I was surprise Nate didn't go with him more because he did have the hot hand. He also will get a lot more mins which always helps a shooter.
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This!
 
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