I predict he will become a rotational player for some team (hopefully us). I could even see him as a poor teams starter at SF. Within another 2 years. Great stroke! Knows how to play.
Because he's cheap insurance in case all four of the other small forwards on our roster get injured? If so, I prefer to call him Geico. BNM
Has any sport see a person come in for the first time and completely take over the game only to completely disappears the rest of his career to date? Pretty crazy.
He shot well in D league, he's a rookie....CJ and Crabbe didn't light it up rookie season either..Jake can shoot but let's let him break a sweat and play two games in a row before we judge him too much eh?
Not a single game, but I think the most spectacular boom to bust story in all of sports has to be Bob "Hurricane" Hazle. I collected baseball cards as a kid and had Hurricane Hazle's rookie card. I used to sort my cards by team, by position, by career batting average for position players and career ERA for pitchers (yes, I was like this, even as an 8-year old kid). Anyway, that 1958 Topps Bob "Hurricane" Hazle card had the highest career batting average of any baseball card I'd ever seen. Back in those days, before Al Gore invented the interweb, it was harder to find information on obscure players like Hazle. Thankfully, my mom bought my brother and I a subscription to Baseball Digest, where I read an interesting article on the meteoric rise and fall of Bob "Hurricane" Hazle. Interesting story, to say the least. After that magical fall of 1957, Hazel was out of the league for good less than a year later. Jake Layman should take note, or people may start calling him Hurricane Layman. At least Hurricane Hazle capped of his 15 minutes of fame with a World Series ring. BNM
1. Draws conclusion that you can't judge a player based off garbage time 2. Then doing just that when said player struggles Fans. Hehe. We can revisit this thread next year. Until then it's all bullshit. No one knows what he will or won't become. His story hasn't started yet. If you want to count him out, feel free. I'm sure your take will age well.
