Lot of stuff about the workouts on the Trail Blazer twitter feed right now. I have to say, Montrezl Harrell could do with a bit of elocution training.
One could just as easily substitute D'Angelo Russell's name in there and it would be equally accurate and worthless information.
I was interested in the Brazilian point guard until I saw the player the team is comparing him to on that link.
Looking at the Kevin Pelton's of the world and there seems to be a consensus: Their analytical models LOVE Delon Wright. Pelton has him as the best projected WARP for his rookie season. The comparison that is being thrown around is Andre Miller.
Somebody was on Twitter the other day talking about "player comps" and saying that the real test is to see if there is any other player whose comp is the same as yours who has succeeded. Of course the obvious examples are Magic Johnson and Charles Barkley - if you're being compared with them, then chances are strong you're a bust, because there just aren't any other 6'8" PGs or 6'4" PFs. He also mentioned... Andre Miller. If you can't jump and can't shoot in today's NBA... Having said that, I think the comparison is more that they're from Utah and are older coming out of college. Re: WARP: yes, if you're going to be 23 or 24 in your rookie year, you'll probably have a better WARP than some 20 year old. But I'm more interested in what it'll be two years after that.
Today. guard George De Paula, guard Pierra Henry, forward Jarell Martin, center Joshua Smith, forward Seth Tuttle and forward Chris Walker.
I liked this. Even though Sabonis is Lithuanian, he was "annexed" onto the Russian team, so I think it counts.
Unfortunately when you start projecting/guessing on what a young player stats might be in two years...............you end up with Sebastian Telfair. I'll take a proven commodity if one is available.
