Mark Madsen was a huge contributor to the Laker championship teams of the early 2000's.... from the bench. I'm talking Jack Haley type numbers!
That's a rather roundabout way of saying that you have come to terms with your own expectations for Outlaw versus what his defined role is on the team. Just a few weeks ago you offered up a thread critical of Outlaw that invited us to spend our afternoon debating. http://www.sportstwo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=135953
I keep seeing these types of posts regarding Freeland, but I don't understand where they are coming from. What have I missed? Are people able to watch his games that I didn't know about? Have there been a lot of real scouts writing about him that I missed? Or is it another case of people overvaluing players to which the Blazers own the rights? Kryapha? Telfair? etc?
He's playing great in the ACB and EuroCup which is usually considered to be a higher level of competition than D-I basketball (or at the least comparable). http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Joel-Freeland-1055/ Put that together with him being two years younger then Hansbrough, considerably more athletic, 2 inches taller and we already own his rights and he seems like a plausible addition ... he may not be a heavy rotation player when he comes over, but as a project he seems much more intriguing than TH.
Hansborough, at his best ever, in the NBA, will be a 15 minute a night player. You don't draft that in the first round. You just don't. If you get lucky in the second with a guy who can give you 15 minutes a night, great, but I would much rather reach on high upside late in the first, personally.
