<div><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ID8LSJu4GRQ&"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ID8LSJu4GRQ&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350" /></embed></object></div> Mocks seems to place him in mid to late teens. Maybe available at 21? Would you take him? From DraftExpress: http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Chase-...502/playerblog/ <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><table class=box width=240><tr>Strengths: • Size • Explosiveness • Speed • Perimeter shooting • Finishing ability • Transition play • Basketball IQ • Unselfishness • Fundamentals • Court vision • Upside Weaknesses: • Strength • Offensive creativity • Go-to scoring mentality • Mid-range game • Off the dribble shooting • Ball-handling skills • Mechanical/Stiff hips defensively • Defensive liability? • Better suited for small forward position? • Leadership?</tr></table></div>
I think it would be a surprise if he fell all the way to 21. He should test well at pre-draft camps, because he's a great athlete. His defense at this point is awful, so bad that I don't see him doing much in the league. I just see him as a bust. I'd much rather prefer CDR.
I'm generalizing a bit here (I haven't watched Chase play before), but he seems like a great athlete, good shooter, good size, and poor defender. What makes him better than Nachbar besides being cheaper?
If he has a good camp and good individual workout, I could see the Nets taking him at #10. He possesses a lot of characteristics of your typical Net draft choice, as Dumpy has pointed out: he's from a big program, he's athletic, he's a solid citizen with a terrific work ethic, he's able to play more than one position. He would have to have a really bad camp and workouts to fall to #21. He's one of the guys I expect to move up at the end.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (NetIncome @ May 11 2008, 08:23 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>If he has a good camp and good individual workout, I could see the Nets taking him at #10. He possesses a lot of characteristics of your typical Net draft choice, as Dumpy has pointed out: he's from a big program, he's athletic, he's a solid citizen with a terrific work ethic, he's able to play more than one position. He would have to have a really bad camp and workouts to fall to #21. He's one of the guys I expect to move up at the end.</div> Agreed...he is a very good athelete, a very good shooter and an average defender who relies on his athleticism...which could be improved with proper coaching; after the camps it could be very likely he could be our selection with the 10th pick. There is absoulutely no way he falls to the 21st pick...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (NetIncome @ May 11 2008, 09:23 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>If he has a good camp and good individual workout, I could see the Nets taking him at #10. He possesses a lot of characteristics of your typical Net draft choice, as Dumpy has pointed out: he's from a big program, he's athletic, he's a solid citizen with a terrific work ethic, he's able to play more than one position. He would have to have a really bad camp and workouts to fall to #21. He's one of the guys I expect to move up at the end.</div> The only thing that's "wrong" with him is that he's a college freshman.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (pegs @ May 11 2008, 11:55 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (NetIncome @ May 11 2008, 09:23 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>If he has a good camp and good individual workout, I could see the Nets taking him at #10. He possesses a lot of characteristics of your typical Net draft choice, as Dumpy has pointed out: he's from a big program, he's athletic, he's a solid citizen with a terrific work ethic, he's able to play more than one position. He would have to have a really bad camp and workouts to fall to #21. He's one of the guys I expect to move up at the end.</div> The only thing that's "wrong" with him is that he's a college freshman. </div> And I bet that's actually a major plus for most people. Reganomics, you've probably watched him more than a lot of us here. What do you think?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Joey FistPump @ May 11 2008, 02:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Isn't he actually a college sophomore?</div> Indeed.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (o.iatlhawksfan @ May 11 2008, 01:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>He has no heart</div> That's a pretty dumb comment imo. Does he have the mindset to be a number 1 scoring option on an NBA team? No. That's really the only knock on the kid...he's got a lot of talent but doesn't take over games, however on an NBA team he will be an excellent 3rd option as a scorer and would be a hell of a sixth man for a team like the Nets...He can play both SG and SF and will give us a consistent shooter with athleticism to run the break with Harris and either finish at the rim or spot up on the outside...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Weaknesses: • Strength • Offensive creativity • Go-to scoring mentality • Mid-range game • Off the dribble shooting • Ball-handling skills • Mechanical/Stiff hips defensively • Defensive liability? • Better suited for small forward position? • Leadership?</div> So what is he good at? He can't create for himself, he has no mid range game, he can't handle the ball and he's a bad defender, his leadership is questionable and he's more suited to be a SF, while his "strengths" are more PG oriented?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Joey FistPump @ May 11 2008, 02:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (o.iatlhawksfan @ May 11 2008, 01:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>He has no heart</div> That's a pretty dumb comment imo. Does he have the mindset to be a number 1 scoring option on an NBA team? No. That's really the only knock on the kid...he's got a lot of talent but doesn't take over games, however on an NBA team he will be an excellent 3rd option as a scorer and would be a hell of a sixth man for a team like the Nets...He can play both SG and SF and will give us a consistent shooter with athleticism to run the break with Harris and either finish at the rim or spot up on the outside... </div> <div><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0HiwnQs_dqM&"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0HiwnQs_dqM&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350" /></embed></object></div>
Not that anything o.iatl ever says has any validity, but backing up a pointless post of "he has no heart" with a video of one play is laughable. And I agree with what ghoti said about these lists. DX and all this other extended coverage of the draft is great, but you have to watch some of these guys play for yourself, instead of basing opinions off of these reports. With the whole leadership issue, you also can't forget that Jerryd Bayless came in this year and assumed that role. It would have been interesting to see how Chase would have played and reacted if they had no Bayless this year. He didn't need to take on that role with a stud frosh coming in. How soon we forget that Lute Olsen called him the best freshman he's ever coached. I just see Budinger's defensive issues being exposed in the NBA, and that's a huge issue for me.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Astral @ May 11 2008, 03:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Weaknesses: • Strength • Offensive creativity • Go-to scoring mentality • Mid-range game • Off the dribble shooting • Ball-handling skills • Mechanical/Stiff hips defensively • Defensive liability? • Better suited for small forward position? • Leadership?</div> So what is he good at? He can't create for himself, he has no mid range game, he can't handle the ball and he's a bad defender, his leadership is questionable and he's more suited to be a SF, while his "strengths" are more PG oriented? </div> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Strengths: • Size • Explosiveness • Speed • Perimeter shooting • Finishing ability • Transition play • Basketball IQ • Unselfishness • Fundamentals • Court vision • Upside</div> sounds like a perfect compliment for a player such as Devon Harris...
