Blazers and Wizards scrimmaging right now

That Freeman guy from the Gory-onion:
http://blog.oregonlive.com/behindblazersbeat/2010/07/trail_blazers_armon_johnson_ho.html

Nice read.

 

Here's video.

 

Thanks for the link to the video.
Size-wise, he seems just as big as John Wall. And sounds like with each passing day, he's making a stronger, stronger case for a roster spot. Great to hear.

 

Not great to hear for Patty Mills. Mills is a really good player and if he doesn't catch on here, I'm sure he will with another NBA team. He'll make some noise around the league like the other 6 footer mini-players do, like Brooks and Nate Robinson. There will be nights he looks great and we wish we had kept him.

It's sad to have to decide, but acquiring Matthews forces it.

 

What I don't get, is why weren't Nevada better?

I'm hoping Armon Johnson turns out to be Alvin Williams II. (Does that make Babbitt Tim Thomas II?)

 

I'm still holding out hope for the big consolidation move that turns some of this potential into proven production. If they clear enough room I'd have no problem with the team picking up both Armon and Mills and letting them pick up whatever table scraps are left for minutes behind <fill-in-the-blank-stud-pg> Both would give Nate some very different options at the backup 1. Mills would be a pretty good change of pace guy and I think Armon eventually could end up being a pretty strong defender.

Lots left to see this summer.

 

Looks like their weakness was nonconference games. At home they were 8-1 but away they were 1-6. If you subtract those nonconference games on the road from their 21-13 record, it leaves 20-7, which is more like it.

http://www.nevadawolfpack.com/fls/10000/MBB_Stats/2009-10/teamcume.htm

 

Ugh. Babbit. Can you just imagine the abuse he's going to get from Batum in practice, not only because Babbitt is a french idiom for cock, but he's going to torch the hell out of him on offense and lock him up like criminal on defense. If nothing else maybe Babbitt will actually get better in time, but I don't have high hopes that guy at all.

 

the pre-draft numbers for the two were very similar both in physical measurements and run/jump measurements... Wall was just a slight bit better in both

the big question with Armon is his outside shot

STOMP

 

Nikolokolus apparently had a different French teacher than I had.

 

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Ah c'mon son of merlin, spill.

 

^ Wouldn't that be a COCK BLOCK!

 

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Mills has something Armon will never have. Blazing fast speed. In order for him to be effective, you have to team him with guys that can run the court as or nearly as fast as he can to take advantage of his strengths. Good luck on there being a bunch of those guys on your summer league roster.

 

Armon has things Mills will never have. Size. A defensive mindset. Toughness. Armon is much better suited for this team than Mills.

 

Yeah, I don't see how Mills beats out Johnson for the last spot....unless Allen's affinity for him becomes the trump card, which is possible....

Johnson is really looking like a sleeper to me....I have been impressed by what I have seen....

 

If Mills were a transcendent player or a phenomenal playmaker (like Chris Paul) then I'd have no problem with his stature and defensive liabilities, but I'm not even convinced he's really a point guard, which makes him potentially a 6' shooting guard. I'd rather let him go to some other team that needs his particular talents instead of trying to shoe-horn him into the Blazers rotation, where his talents are unlikely to maximized.