The Blazers were so bad that year. The bench consisted of guys like Sasha Pavlovic and Nolan Smith getting big minutes. Of course Meyers got to play. The Hornets were actually trying to win games last year. Noah had more competition to earn minutes. Also Steve Clifford did not like giving minutes to the young guys.
vonleh had sports hernia operation , missed all of traing camp and the beginning of the season. charlotte thought they might make the playoffs, cody zeller the year befores first round pick and marvin williams was ahead on the depth chart, kid was 19yo when drafted. might these have contributed to his lack of playing time?
I confused why we're lumping Vonleh in with T-Rob. T-Rob's BBIQ is more Travis Outlaw than Vonleh. Vonleh and T-Rob are both athletic specimens, but that's about where the comparison ends (T-Rob seems more athletic). It took T-Rob three seasons to figure out college basketball. Vonleh came right in and performed. Athletes like these two should come in and be successful in college ball based on their athleticism alone. T-Rob is a one-trick pony to this point; Vonleh has a solid all-around game, at least as far as I saw in college. If T-Rob didn't come up with a monster put-back dunk or flying fastbreak block, we'd have no clue who he is. Vonleh can shoot the ball, he can bang, he can rebound, AND he's an athlete. I'm not saying Vonleh is destined to be a star, I just don't see the comparisons.
Vonleh's 2014 SL stats 9/10 on 28% from 2 and 12% from 3 D-League stats were below mediocre as well I just don't see it.
Yeah, exactly. Been saying this for a while.... A rookie missing his first training camp essentially renders his rookie season lost.
As if Charlotte hasn't had 6 coaches in a few years, more roster turnovers than any team in the league and picked Adam Morrison at number one. Fact is Vonleh was a rookie there and had experienced bigs way ahead of him in the lineup..they were trying desperately to win now.
Much more like CJ except CJ was a 4-year senior. Try missing training camp when you are an 18 year old rookie and to expect him to come in on fire after being behind from a surgery seem unreasonable. Big men take time (see Meyers Leonard) and don't be down if he's still not very good this year.
If so, that's the first time in MJ's managerial history he got it right. History says the odds are in our favor....
I've mentioned this before, we as fans are crippled by our lack of knowledge of other players outside of stars on other teams.
Not writing him off as a scrub at all. Of course he'll get better. I just think it's very unlikely he reaches his max potential/ceiling as a Bosh/Aldridge level PF that some people have thrown around over the web. I'm not even sure why those comparisons come out at this point. Hopefully there's a big jump in his game.
