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Post by DERRENMATTS on Jun 22, 2017 23:20:36 GMT -5
The guy that drove me to the airport in Honolulu was a Laotian whose name was long enough in the army his knickname was alphabet Uber or taxi? |
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Post by DERRENMATTS on Jun 22, 2017 23:21:03 GMT -5
And it's now dinner time for Derren while we all shoulda been asleep hours ago. And when I saw we I mean me. C ya Goodnight, E. Was fun. |
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Post by eja117 on Jun 22, 2017 23:21:17 GMT -5
I wonder if Jaylen Brown endorsed Jabari to Ainge? The only possibility. And apparently he also said "Don't draft Rabb." |
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Post by eja117 on Jun 22, 2017 23:21:38 GMT -5
The guy that drove me to the airport in Honolulu was a Laotian whose name was long enough in the army his knickname was alphabet Uber or taxi? Charley's Taxi |
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Post by eja117 on Jun 27, 2017 7:30:30 GMT -5
I looked into Semi Ojeley's situation to try to get a better sense of him.
Semi....6ft 7 235lbs....nbadraft.net has him at 6ft 6 240
Paul Pierce....6ft 7 235lbs
Draymond Green 6ft 7 230lbs
Charles Barkley 6ft 6 252lbs
Clarence Weatherspoon 6ft 6 240lbs
Toine....6ft 9 265lbs
Jae Crowder 6ft 6 235lbs
Barkley had an off the charts wing span.
Ojeley is known as extremely athletic with I think the 5th best vertical at the combine (not everyone jumped though...right?) and a very good three point shot. He was also third in lane agility. It's more positionless basketball and a challenge to Yab.
Yab ...6ft 8....260lbs
Ojeley's hand size measurement seems to be respectable. On par or better than a ton of PFs, but not off the charts or anything.
The coaching should be half way decent as he spent time with Coach K and Larry Brown
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Post by DERRENMATTS on Jun 27, 2017 11:41:20 GMT -5
Early on, i think they tried using Semi on the wing, as a SF because he was shorter than your prototypical PF. He didn't get much playing time at Duke.
At SMU, they played him at the 4, and he shined.
Still undersized, but it doesn't necessarily mean he can't succeed. Brad needs to use him the best way that will accentuate his abilities and mask his deficiencies.
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Post by eja117 on Jul 2, 2017 10:43:49 GMT -5
Interestingly Semi O is nba draft.net's strongest player of the draft and he bench pressed the most. He beat the 2nd strongest guy by I think 3 reps. Nbadrft.net also picked Gershon as their strongest last year. Looks like we're looking for some beef to help Horford.
I think these strong as heck, fast, athletic, good shooting players are definitely an attempt to find the next Draymond and play that position less ball the Celts like
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Post by jmost on Jul 2, 2017 14:24:10 GMT -5
I never really understood the NBA combine strength test. If you want to measure strength, why not test for max bench press? Measuring reps seems to measure endurance more than strength.
In any case, coming out at the top can't be a bad thing.
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Post by eja117 on Jul 2, 2017 14:33:30 GMT -5
I'm under the impression that the bench press doesn't matter as much to teams any more. It doesn't hurt, especially for bigs. I suppose if you're a small guy (hypothetically Frank Mason) and you want to show you're stronger so you can deal with the banging when you drive that's fine. But a few years ago Kevin Durant couldn't do one and the guy that won that year is someone we never heard of and after that people didn't care much about bench press any more
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Post by jmost on Jul 2, 2017 19:20:45 GMT -5
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Post by DERRENMATTS on Jul 2, 2017 19:28:01 GMT -5
Very curious to know how they're going to use him. In what way are they going to mold him? |
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