Maybe he can make some improvements in a year or two and stick as a 13th man to play in emergency situations. This season he was horrid, I much prefer Collins or Johnson to get a couple spot minute at this time. Sadly I don’t see him ever regaining enough to become a good backup or stopgap starter as he was for a few years with us. I said it at the time of his injury and all throughout his rehab; no basketball player has ever regained their form from that patella tendon injury and it was far fetched to expect more out of Pryzbilla. McDyess probably had the best post injury career but he was a far more elite all-star player pre-injury, so a diminished McDyess was still an effective role player. A diminished role player doesn’t have a place in the NBA. Pryz was a great surprise addition back in the Nash era, I remember him coming from nowhere, first playing limited minutes, then extended minutes, working pick and rolls with Damon his first year and getting a couple crazy 20pt 20reb type games. He was only brought in to be a Joe Klein player at the end of the bench but provided us with many years of solid big man play. He really maximized his gifts, the guy had little offensive talent and marginal athleticism but pounded down low whenever the team needed. He improved from a horrid free throw shooter to acceptable, and was careful with his shot selection leading the league in field goal percentage for part of a season. Good luck Pryz with whatever your next adventure is!
Guarantee you Pryz would've been waived - according to plan - after traded to Charlotte, had Charlotte fans not been in such an uproar about trading Crash. The only reason he played a second in a Bobcat jersey was for Jordan to save face and try to pretend like his trade wasn't selling the face of their franchise for 2 cents on the dollar. Not that I can speak with any assuredness about the current health of Joel's knee, but I'm completely confident in saying that MJ's ego is the only reason Joel isn't once-again a Blazer. Doubt me? Ask yourself this... Regardless of health - HOW IN THE WORLD, did a team, so often bereft of size, trade a center and a PF who had been reasonably effective given his marginal expectations for a SF, without any backup plan? Chris Johnson and Jarron Collins weren't the backup plan, Joel was.
