What is Meyers Leonards ceiling for this year?

[blazedanugz]

what do you guys think? how good could he realistically end up being? i know its very possible he could barely play but just hypothetically.

 

[blazedanugz]

Re: What is Meyers Leonards cieling for this year?

woops I before except after C haha

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Re: What is Meyers Leonards cieling for this year?

woops I before except after C haha

No problems, I fixed it.

 

[julius]

Low ceiling: doesn't beat Odens rookie season

High ceiling: beats his rookie season.

Of course this depends on if he has 8 micro fracture surgeries first

 

[MickZagger]

Greg Dreiling

 

[Haakzilla]

...a dozen double-double games with 2 or more blocks +/-

 

[jlprk]

You asked too early. No one has a strong opinion until after a couple of exhibition games. This is the type of thread that will be reawakened during the season everytime he plays well, badly, or has a season-ending injury.

 

[THE HCP]

I have no clue til I see him play against real comp.

 

[Natebishop3]

One MF surgery? Maybe two?

 

[THE HCP]

I don't know about ceiling..... but I'll tell you what I'd be happy with........ 6pts/11rebs/25 minutes

 

[MARIS61]

MVP and a title.

 

[maxiep]

Joel Przybilla before he came to the Blazers.

 

[Natebishop3]

Joel Przybilla before he came to the Blazers.

Yup. I predict a lot of fouls and a lot of growing pains. It took Joel four or five seasons to learn how to play with the refs, and for the refs to respect him. Leonard seems like a smart guy, and he has more athleticism than Joel did, but he is raw and usually it takes a while for guys like that to adapt to the NBA.

 

[illmatic99]

Averages of 6pts, 6rebs in about 25mpg. He'll be limited because of foul trouble.

 

[Mediocre Man]

15/5/5/5/.5

minutes, points, rebounds, fouls, blocks

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Yup. I predict a lot of fouls and a lot of growing pains. It took Joel four or five seasons to learn how to play with the refs, and for the refs to respect him. Leonard seems like a smart guy, and he has more athleticism than Joel did, but he is raw and usually it takes a while for guys like that to adapt to the NBA.

As long as he doesn't put on 50lbs like every moronic athletic developer wants to see out of skinny centers, he'll be fine. Most of Joel's problem was an early playing weight of 270 slowing him down, and giving him injury problems.

 

[santeesioux]

15/5/5/5/.5

minutes, points, rebounds, fouls, blocks

That sounds about right.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

His ceiling is driven by minutes played. I doubt he'll earn a starting role for a season or two. I'd say for his rookie season 6 pts and 5 rebounds per game is all we can expect.

 

[dviss1]

I think most of you cats are wrong. While he doesn't have much of a back to the basket game to speak of, he will not be relied on for that.
I think he gets:

25 mins (not hard to get that even with foul trouble)
6 Pts
8-9 Rebs
1 Blk

 

[Mediocre Man]

I think most of you cats are wrong. While he doesn't have much of a back to the basket game to speak of, he will not be relied on for that.
I think he gets:

25 mins (not hard to get that even with foul trouble)
6 Pts
8-9 Rebs
1 Blk

25 minutes is a ton, unless someone gets hurt.

Between the 4-5 there are 96 minutes. Aldridge will get 36 of those. That leaves 60 minutes for Hickson, Freeland, Claver, Babbitt, Leonard, Jeffries. Hickson likely will get 25 minutes, Freeland 20. That leaves 15 minutes Even if Claver, Babbit and Jeffries never see time at the 4-5, Leonard is left with 15

 

[BlazerCaravan]

16 MPG

3.5 PPG
4.5 RPG
1.5 BPG

Project big with some potential.

 

[dviss1]

25 minutes is a ton, unless someone gets hurt.

Between the 4-5 there are 96 minutes. Aldridge will get 36 of those. That leaves 60 minutes for Hickson, Freeland, Claver, Babbitt, Leonard, Jeffries. Hickson likely will get 25 minutes, Freeland 20. That leaves 15 minutes Even if Claver, Babbit and Jeffries never see time at the 4-5, Leonard is left with 15

So Leonard's minutes will depend on whether or not they want Defense or Offense. They will choose between Leonard and Freeland respectively.

Claver will backup Nic and spend no time at the 4. Jefferies is on the team because NY is paying his salary and next year is not guaranteed. He will only see time due to injury.

So Freeland and Leonard will end up splitting time IMO.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

He'll be hard to watch for the first few months of the season but he has to get touches -- development is "key" this season for Meyers, according to Neil.

Just as long as they put him in P&R's (not P&P's!) and avoid ISO's, he'll be fine.

 

[MickZagger]

Expect to see him catch many lobs this season.

 

[Mediocre Man]

So Leonard's minutes will depend on whether or not they want Defense or Offense. They will choose between Leonard and Freeland respectively.

Claver will backup Nic and spend no time at the 4. Jefferies is on the team because NY is paying his salary and next year is not guaranteed. He will only see time due to injury.

So Freeland and Leonard will end up splitting time IMO.

So he gets 17-18 instead of 15

 

[dviss1]

So he gets 17-18 instead of 15

Fair enough.

 

[ebott]

You asked too early. No one has a strong opinion until after a couple of exhibition games. This is the type of thread that will be reawakened during the season everytime he plays well, badly, or has a season-ending injury.

nah, this type of thread will be ignored and a new one will be created every time. LENNY MILES SUXORS!!!!! MEYERS LEONARD IS THE NEXT DAVID ROBINSON!!!! Over and over and over again all year long. I LOVE having a crappy team full of young guys with potential. I don't even care if we win as long as my favorite youngster does well. I'm really hoping that Joel Freeland brings something early in the season so we can split into tribes and argue over whether him or Leonard is the COTF!!!! FTW!!!

It's gonna be awesome. I hope it gets as good as the never ending Travis Outlaw VS Martell Webster threads.

 

[Rhal]

I really hope he can average 20 or so minutes but a big white player who isn't exactly a finesse player is going to pick up fouls like its nobody's business.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

I really hope he can average 20 or so minutes but a big white player who isn't exactly a finesse player is going to pick up fouls like its nobody's business.

Before Przybilla 'got it' he earned the nickname Foulzilla.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I won't talk about his ceiling, because frankly we have no idea, but I'm pretty sure his median is going to be around 15 minutes, 5 points, 4 rebounds, .5 blocks, 4 fouls and a defensive rating over 108