Have the Blazers run all four rookies at once yet this year? It wouldn't be at all out of the question to run the following team on the court: PG: Bayless SG: Rudy SF: Batum PF: (Whomever) C: Oden I don't think that I've seen it yet, but it seems like it might happen by the end of the year. Can anyone else think of teams that have played four rookies concurrently? Not even considering the quality of the guys... it would be cool to see. Unless I've missed it and it's already happened... Ed O.
We should petition to have those four guys be 1/2 of the all-rookies game. We don't need no stinking subs, we'll play 4 on 5 for 48 minutes. Book it!
Isn't the rookie game two twenty-minute halves? I think it was designed that way to give all the players who went straight from high school a chance to play that format or something. IMO, Oden and Rudy are likely in. No way that Bayless or Batum makes it. There are a lot of worthy people fighting for rookie team roster spots.
EdO, I can't really see that team playing meaningful minutes unless the PF is Aldridge. Someone needs to hold that squad together and no other PF could really do that. And even with Aldridge in, I think there would be a lack of direction. It would be interesting to watch, but I can't really see it being a productive squad.
The 2004-05 Bulls had four rookies, Ben Gordon, Luol Deng, Chris Duhon and Andres Nocione that all played over 1600 minutes. All four averaged between 23.4 and 27.3 MPG. With all those minutes played, you'd think the odds are good that all four would have seen floor time together at least on occasion. However, 82games.com doesn't list the foursome of Duhon-Gordon-Deng-Nocione among the top 5-man units for the Bulls that season. The trio of Duhon-Gordon-Nocione got quite a bit of time together, but not with Deng. There is, of course the possibility that the four rookies saw some brief time together, but not enough (39 minutes) to make the top 20 5-man units. BNM
I'm not sure if it's happened or not. It possibly has. It reminds me of my freshman year in college at Michigan. We had 5 freshman starting (remember the Fab Five?) and made it all to the championship game! Ray Jackson Jimmy King Jalen Rose Juwan Howard Chris Webber
Hey Eric, you don't have to mention that the Fab Five were all freshman starters - any halfway knowledgeable bball fan would know that . . . that's what made them Fab That Webber timeout, though, not so Fab.
It happened last night...briefly. Bayless, Fernandez, Roy, Batum and Oden were on the court for about 2 minutes in the 2nd quarter of the Clippers game. http://popcornmachine.net/cgi-bin/gameflow.cgi?date=20090126&game=PORLAC I'm guessing Atlanta had 4 rookies on the floor at least once in 2004-05. Josh Smith (2,050 minutes) Josh Childress (2,400 minutes) Royal Ivey (809 minutes) and Donta Smith (433 minutes)
D'oh! Maybe my subconscious noted it while my conscious mind did not. Thanks for pointing that out, Cake. Ed O.
