Except ZBO was light years ahead at this point. Zach was drafted at 20 years old and by his third year he was averaging 20 points and 10.5 rebounds per game. I remember Zach just dominating in the summer leagues. He was an extremely polished post player, even at 19-20 years old. Vonleh and Zach might have some similar features, but in terms of talent, Zach was a really special player. He just had a 10 cent head.
Zach oozed talent. Vonleh currently has very little talent at anything other than defensive positioning. His touch around the basket is awful.
After one of Vonleh's best games of the season, he sees the floor for a total of 12 minutes tonight? Stotts isn't a bad coach, but his rotations are bunk.
I thought Vonleh looked good tonight. He's just not a guy you put your offense around yet, and that's okay... it'll come. I saw a couple flashes of what he can do around the rim tonight. Not worried.
Von is the 5th option on the starting offense so if does score that a plus. Rebounding actually pretty good for the minutes he play. Pretty good defender and Stotts bringing him on slowly on the offense I see that will increase next year.
That is so hard to believe, I ran a spreadsheet. In season rebounds + points, Plumlee is 4th on the team and Vonleh 10th. In season (rebounds + points) per minute, Plumlee is 5th and Vonleh 12th. You must have meant for the game in progress.
Is he our best inside defender? He's way better than Meyers at guarding 4s. Offense clearly not there yet, but his defense looks good.
He did. And Vonleh had a post move in this game that was better than anything Ive seen any Blazer do in years.... Vonleh was also injured the bulk of his first season? Comparing to a healthy Zbo at the same stage is also not fair. This is really Vonleh's true rookie season. My eyes say Vonleh can learn, has great speed and quickness, has a knack for defensive positioning. The kid will grow and become a starter... a REAL starter. All star? Not sure yet.
after 9 years with Lamarcus, it's an adjustment watching a team where the offense isn't power forward driven..I like that Vonleh is clogging lanes and rebounding. Our bigs are not ever going to be Lamarcus type players
Yes, it was for that game in progress. He was great in the 4th quarter against the Nuggets and then started off with a ton of energy, 4 quick rebounds and a RARE BLAZER low post bucket....then gets to play 6 minutes the rest of the game. That is what is baffling. Especially when Gasol and Zach were in there at the same time and Stotts was running Dame, CJ, Crabbe and Henderson out there with either Davis/Plums/Leonard. Gee...wonder why Zach went bonkers?
Tons of scrubs look good in summer league, but hey thats fair he teased you guys for a second but teams just dont trade top 10 draft picks in one year. Even garbage teams when they make that trade are usually right like the kings did with Trob
You are wording this as to say he turned into Greg Oden and he's done. The word you were looking for is "does". And he has potential. And look at what I wrote for him. I said he looks good for very tiny things. Improvements. That's all we're looking for from him this season. It took Meyers 3 years before he even did some small things well. At least Vonleh has shown very small improvement through a few games. and dont look at his PPG or some crap, that's not where his improvement lies. (Notice I never used the term "he's 21").
How many big men look good in summer league? Almost none. It's a league of guards and forwards who chuck long jumpers. Hardly anyone runs plays for big guys. And the Kings traded TRob for a bunch of scrubs. The Hornets traded Vonleh and Hendo for a starting small forward in his prime. That's a little different.
So you're gonna use him playing better than a rookie Meyers Leonard as a barometer for him being a future all star? Haha And every 20 year old well show some flashes of what they can do. So he hasn't played incompetent the last couple games, that's where the improvement is.. Still doesn't mean he'll come close to being an all star
They just like him because he was traded for a somewhat productive SF and they don't want to feel like we got screwed in that trade..
