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The Organizer said:
I watched him play several time on the Australian team in the World Cup (was scouting Matisse) and he's Ok but not a game changer. Can do some things well, not a terrible defender, can score the 3 very well for a center (like it's important) but the better player was his substitute Xavier Cooks (IIRC) from the Washington Wizards who's a much better player.
Overall, a real head scratcher to me, we were rumored to be interested in Tavarez from Real Madrid, who was simply incredible in the world cup, yet we sign someone who hardly made a difference...
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Are you Joe Cronin? There’s something amiss. Whatever it is in the end I think we’ll find you’re overqualified for this forum. Explain yourself! Please.
 
THE HCP said:
Wow, the new guy drops more knowledge.....you think he is an insider planted to infiltrate our forum? @SlyPokerDog I see a pattern with this person's posting.
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Haha. I said pretty much the same fucking thing before I read your post! This guy’s scouting us or something. He’s about to steal away some the great posters in here like that @Propagandist guy.
 
Rudy Gobert does not like this signing.

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Said I liked him and wanted him this summer.

Please continue on with your regularly scheduled disappointment.
 
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blazerkor said:
I feel like if both Reath and Moses are guaranteed for roster spots then the front office is expecting to trade Nurk. I just don't see us having two backup C's on the roster and one with one of our two way contracts. Who the hell knows though with the kind of imbalance that has seemed to be the hallmark of a Cronin constructed roster.
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But, neither of them are starting quality.
 
I like that his first name sounds like acapella singing from the old days..."it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing! doo wop doo wop doo wop do wop"
 
Chris Craig said:
But, neither of them are starting quality.
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On a lot of teams I would agree but we might just be looking at a season in front of us where it's about developing talent and not winning. Obviously I'm getting ahead of myself because Dame is still on the roster as is Nurk. I could see both being traded soon. I could also see Jerami being featured heavily in an offense without Dame or Nurk and then getting moved once he's eligible to be, near the deadline.
 
The coaches have always said big men take 5 years to make the leap with few exceptions..you never know when a young 7ft center is going to absorb film and develop the skillset to make a leap as a player. Nobody else seems to be scooping up Dwight Howard or Hassan Whiteside or Boogie Cousins either. Take a shot on a young big, nothing really to lose. Duop has international experience which gives him a leg up on Badji but Brown has played against all the NBA bigs that are in the league and has way more experience with film than the other guys...and has played in more NBA systems.
 
Propagandist said:
Haha. I said pretty much the same fucking thing before I read your post! This guy’s scouting us or something. He’s about to steal away some the great posters in here like that @Propagandist guy.
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I'll start doing RipCityTwo ad reads to replace the lost talent. I'm sure that'll go great!:smiley-cool:
 
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Link from that Reddit. 7 years ago, Reath is an LSU junior.
https://www.tigerrag.com/the-incredible-journey-of-duop-reath/

Reath never strayed from the village. The family lived in what he calls a hut. He had no bed and no shoes. To pass the time, the children played barefoot soccer with a makeshift ball made by wrapping clothes around a balloon. Meanwhile, blood – some of it his own family’s – filled the streets he played on every day...Duop doesn’t remember much, other than packing a bag one night – “there wasn’t much to pack,” he says – and a shoeless walk of two-plus hours to a bus station...

...Perth, Australia. Nine-year-old Duop arrived down under speaking only his native Nuer tongue and without a single day of formal school to his name. “No English,” he says. “I didn’t know no ABCs. I didn’t know how to count.”

...Lee College, the small juco in Baytown, Texas...needed a forward to replace several D-1 bound bigs, a tradition of sorts for the program now known as a feeder school to some of the country’s best programs.

...The offers followed. Virginia Tech. Oklahoma State. Oregon. UConn. And then, of course, LSU

...Reath’s parents [in Australia]...Neither has seen their son play a minute of college basketball.
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Here are questions for the 30 guys on this board with podcasts. Pretend you're real reporters, go out in the field, and ask questions to actual sources:

1) Having money now, has he brought his parents to Portland?

2) The Oregon coaching staff which tried to recruit him...have they talked to him now that he's here?
 
Call me sentimental but I think it's pretty cool POR takes a flier on Reath and it seems to have turned out better than expected for both parties. No he won't be an all star and Shaq will never know his name but he can contribute. Billups definitely deserves credit for his growth.
 
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