I watched him play several time on the Australian team in the World Cup (was scouting Matisse) and he's Ok but not a game changer. Can do some things well, not a terrible defender, can score the 3 very well for a center (like it's important) but the better player was his substitute Xavier Cooks (IIRC) from the Washington Wizards who's a much better player. Overall, a real head scratcher to me, we were rumored to be interested in Tavarez from Real Madrid, who was simply incredible in the world cup, yet we sign someone who hardly made a difference...
He's a good old-fashioned backup center. He's certainly better than any other big man we have outside of Nurk. But we better hope at least one of our younger seven footers BECOMES better than he is now.
He was better than Badji in summer league for us and played pretty well for Australia in the FIBA games. Good pickup. Going to be some big man competition in training camp which is always a good thing.
let's see...Kevin Knox?...Duop Reath?...yeah, the Blazers are already testing which way the wind tanks
Wow, the new guy drops more knowledge.....you think he is an insider planted to infiltrate our forum? @SlyPokerDog I see a pattern with this person's posting.
Backup center in general isn't where teams put a lot of emphasis. Playing a few solid minutes is enough. The Blazers should be fine this coming season. In this game last season, Sacramento's backup center played 1 minute, and Memphis doesn't even have someone listed as a center on their bench.
I feel like if both Reath and Moses are guaranteed for roster spots then the front office is expecting to trade Nurk. I just don't see us having two backup C's on the roster and one with one of our two way contracts. Who the hell knows though with the kind of imbalance that has seemed to be the hallmark of a Cronin constructed roster.
