What do you expect from Meyers Leonard by end of next season?

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1. rebounding positioning - he sucked at it last yr
2. No the system better so he's not lost all the time on D
3. better lower body strength so he's not pushed around so easily

he should be able to improve at least decently in these areas, if he can't then the "bus": odds increase a good bit.
 
It's a little different of a situation, but the sister of a friend was 4'10" and one hell of a ballet dancer, looking towards a career in the field. Then, over 10 months when she was 16 she grew 11 inches to 5'9". She could hardly walk without falling, let alone dance in her new awkward body. She stopped growing and a couple years later got it together, figured out how to control her moves and ended up a pro dancer in some show down in Vegas. Meyers still moves like he does not know his size or strength. Hopefully he figures it out.
 
I expect him to look slightly less lost on defense, poster-block maybe a dozen shots, posterize a couple dozen different players with monster dunks, get posterized about twice that many times, and have some sort of inkling on how to bang down low. Any inkling would be an improvement, he was willing and physically able to bang, but he had no idea how...
 
GOD said:
It's a little different of a situation, but the sister of a friend was 4'10" and one hell of a ballet dancer, looking towards a career in the field. Then, over 10 months when she was 16 she grew 11 inches to 5'9". She could hardly walk without falling, let alone dance in her new awkward body. She stopped growing and a couple years later got it together, figured out how to control her moves and ended up a pro dancer in some show down in Vegas. Meyers still moves like he does not know his size or strength. Hopefully he figures it out.
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Meyers a dancer in Vegas...now there is a visual...
 
GOD said:
I expected a little better from him last year, but I still have high hopes. His athleticism is awesome, his motor is very good, his size and weight are good, and sounds like a hard worker. Hopefully he is just a little slow at learning, but still completely capable of putting it all together.
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An excellent recap of Meyers.

He strikes me as a player that does better with extended minutes. Like he has to find his comfort zone on the floor. I have high hopes for him.
 
OregonHuskerMan said:
Why even both responding if you're not going to address the substance of the message?
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You didn't even quote me, you quoted Lincoln. The sum of it was schoolgirl tough guy talk about calling Meyers a pussy to his face. I'd expect better.
 
I think it's mostly up to Leonard's aptitude for learning and drive to get better ... so in other words I have no idea what to expect. He has great raw physical attributes, but no idea how to apply them in the context of an NBA game. The best thing I can say is that's probably a better place to be than undersized and unathletic, but skilled.
 
among the 44 centers that played at least 10mpg:

3rd youngest

25th in mpg (17.5)

40th in dtrg (110)

4th in otrg (115)

27th in PER (12.1)

24th in ws/48 (.097)

4th in ft% (.809)

12th in fg% (.545)

31st in usg (13.1)

34th in blk% (2.4)

7th in ts% (.596)

41st in reb% (12.3)

basically, one of the best on offense, one of the worst on defense
 
I repeat. Management needs to solve this problem.

jlprk said:
When drafted, they said, "He's emotional. In college games his face would turn red. He looked like tears were coming out."

Last season, I noticed he is irritated by contact lenses. Has nothing to do with emotion. Solve that and he can focus on the game.
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I expect nothing from Withey (2 years older) except to make Leonard feel competitive about being the starter.
 
I don't think Meyers has a problem 'playing like a man'. I don't see him shying away from contact. He just has to learn how to play. That's it. There's no substitute for experience, and he's relatively inexperienced at the post position, especially at this level. He's talented, eager, and hard working. Have some faith. And some patience.
 
BBert said:
I don't think Meyers has a problem 'playing like a man'. I don't see him shying away from contact. He just has to learn how to play. That's it. There's no substitute for experience, and he's relatively inexperienced at the post position, especially at this level. He's talented, eager, and hard working. Have some faith. And some patience.
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Everything you type lately I agree with. Feel free to sign your next post "GOD".
 
I expect to see considerable improvement through out the season as evidence we have a coach working to make a center of him. He obviously has talents but it needs to be shaped and channeled. Coaching.
 
BBert said:
I don't think Meyers has a problem 'playing like a man'. I don't see him shying away from contact. He just has to learn how to play. That's it. There's no substitute for experience, and he's relatively inexperienced at the post position, especially at this level. He's talented, eager, and hard working. Have some faith. And some patience.
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Just let me bitch about things. I'm in a bad mood about these blazers right now
 
I expect him to backup Withey, who hopefully is not the starter.

At this point it is a failed pick, just like Luke Babbitt after one year. Can he make huge improvements? Sure, but that would be very uncommon and quite unlikely in this scenario. Young players like Zach Randolph and Jermaine Oneal showed glimses as rookies, Meyers hasn't. He is 21, players have slight tweaks and improvements in their games as they age but not complete transformations. He is more similar to Olowakandi or Robert Swith than a DPOY like Tyson Chandler.
 
Draco said:
I expect him to backup Withey, who hopefully is not the starter. At this point it is a failed pick, just like Luke Babbitt after one year. Can he make huge improvements? Sure, but that would be very uncommon and quite unlikely in this scenario.
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Withey wiil back up Leonard, of course.

Babbitt was drafted #17, ahead of where he was forecast, because McMillan wanted shooters and Babbitt was supposedly the best in the draft. After one year our gamble had failed because his shooting was not as advertised.

Leonard's "failings" were the ordinary failings of any raw rookie whose eyes are burning every second from bad contact lenses. Easily correctable. There is no comparison between the two players.
 
Draco said:
Young players like Zach Randolph and Jermaine Oneal showed glimses as rookies, Meyers hasn't.
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jlprk said:
Withey wiil back up Leonard, of course.

Babbitt was drafted #17, ahead of where he was forecast, because McMillan wanted shooters and Babbitt was supposedly the best in the draft. After one year our gamble had failed because his shooting was not as advertised.

Leonard's "failings" were the ordinary failings of any raw rookie whose eyes are burning every second from bad contact lenses. Easily correctable. There is no comparison between the two players.
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The way our roster is constructed right now we need help defense out of the center position, exactly what Withey provides. He was a polished senior. If we needed 15ppg from our center spot Meyers would be the obvious bet, but we don’t. After a month I expect to see Withey getting more time than Meyers.

Babbitt’s problem was not shooting, he had zero to his game outside of shooting, but the guy could flat out shoot.
 
I heard one of the Blazer assistant coaches say last year (paraphrasing} 'Myers should be an All-Star in five years. Hibbert took that amount of time to develop. Myers is actually special."

I leave that to the experts, because to this layman, he looked pretty awful.
 
Draco said:
The way our roster is constructed right now we need help defense out of the center position, exactly what Withey provides. He was a polished senior. If we needed 15ppg from our center spot Meyers would be the obvious bet, but we don’t. After a month I expect to see Withey getting more time than Meyers.
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I don't know how to check, but...how many centers drafted anywhere near #45 were starting 1 month into their rookie years? I don't know of any. Leonard has a year's head start, though he's 2 years younger than Withey.
 
It seems to me that you can play the game and not understand it better when you are this young. And he is going to play more this season. I think most people feel the size and athletic ability are there and if he is going to play more then that really just leave drive and desire to get better. Ive never got the impression that he doesnt want to get better so I expect to at the very least make the kind of jump that most players do after a season under their belt. I still have good hopes for him.
 
Meyers has clearly been working on his guns. I hope someone has him working on his lower body and how to leverage it.

Wasn't he going to attend a big man's camp this summer?
 
nards is one of the best centers in the league on offense,and one of the worst on defense

i expect improvement though
 
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