<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Is Foye the next Wade?Villanova guard's versatility should play well in prosBy FRAN BLINEBURYCopyright 2006 Houston Chronicle The final horn had barely stopped sounding and the Miami Heat players were still jumping and celebrating their freshly minted title on the court in Dallas when every other team in the NBA was scrambling to find the next Dwyane Wade.In a copycat league in a copycat world, the recent rule changes that have made life easier on the perimeter for scoring guards plus Wade's amazing playoff run have made him basketball's version of the XBox or the iPod ? everybody wants one.Enter Randy Foye, who is coming off a senior season at Villanova during which he was first among equals in a four-guard lineup frequently employed by the Wildcats.The 6-3, 205-pound Foye is part New Age and part throwback. He's not a point guard and not a shooting guard. Just a guard, who can get a shoulder in front of every defender and drive to the hoop or pull up into an open spot and stick a mid-range jumper."I don't like to think of myself as playing any one type of role," Foye said. "I like to think I can do a lot of different things in a game ? whatever my team needs from me at a specific time."He has been described as a prototypical New York-style combination guard, which means he is both versatile and fearless and always can find a way to create a scoring opportunity for himself. He has great footwork and an excellent crossover dribble and seems to get better when he gets into traffic and has to resort to a second or third move to get clear.Like Wade, Foye has surprising strength that allows him to twist and turn and almost always find a way to get his shot off."I'm flabbergasted watching him," Saint Joseph's coach Phil Martelli said after running into Foye last season. "He's mean, and I mean that in a complimentary way."Foye is resourceful and relentless, traits he developed while growing up without parents on the hardscrabble streets of Newark, N.J. His father was killed in a motorcycle accident when Foye was 3. He was abandoned by his mother at 6 and raised by his grandmother."It was just a matter of knowing what could happen if you slip up or go in the wrong direction," Foye told Basketball Times. "Where I'm from, there aren't many people who have positive information for you or can influence you in a positive way. Growing up in a tough area, bad things are always going on around you, so you have to get good people around you."Foye found a good environment for four years at Villanova and eventually became the top scorer on a team that went to the Elite Eight and pushed him into the draft spotlight.Washington's Brandon Roy is another top prospect at the shooting guard spot, along with Ronnie Brewer of Arkansas, J.J. Redick of Duke and Shannon Brown of Michigan State.The leading point guard candidates are Marcus Williams of Connecticut, Rajon Rondo of Kentucky and Foye's Villanova teammate Kyle Lowry.The downside to Foye is his size and the fact he does not possess the ball-distributing skills to play the point in the NBA. Foye has improved his 3-point shooting, hitting at a 35 percent clip as a senior, and is very good at coming off a screen for catch-and-shoots.But what makes him especially attractive is his headiness and the instincts that seem to make him a natural leader. In fact, he was one of the key players on the U.S. team that won the gold medal last summer at the World University Games."I think I'm here to give everyone who thinks they're down and out a little hope," Foye said. "It's like, 'If he can do it, then I can do it.' "With the ball in his hands, Randy Foye can do plenty.</div>http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports...kn/4001414.html
LOL their games are so different, and Foye will never be able to hold Wade's shoe lace. This is retarded, their games are not similiar at all, their body is different, and again - LOL.
Other than being explosive and good athletes I don't see it, Randy Foye is a NBA PG and Dwyane Wade is a NBA SG...I don't see the comparison at all, I saw this article a couple days ago and laughed at it.
They are seriously running out of article Ideas... there is no way, they dont even play the same position. I wouldve never thought of coparing them. Foye will not be as good as Wade.
Why do people like to compare NBA players so much? I mean some of the comparisons make a little bit of sense but this is just stupid. They dont even play the same position.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (wade2shaq93 @ Jun 27 2006, 02:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Why do people like to compare NBA players so much? I mean some of the comparisons make a little bit of sense but this is just stupid. They dont even play the same position.</div>I can see why a writer would compare the two, even if they are not anything alike. They are/were both thought of to be undersized to play the two spot, but not your traditional type point guards. They are both thought of as more combo guards than your traditional type of shooting or point guard. After this past playoffs, the best combo guard in the draft will be compared to Wade, just because it's how some dopey writers think. That is where i see the comparisons stopping at between the two though, both are/were thought to be combo guards.
Here is the thing you guys have got to realize:Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh, Josh Howard are players that will be All Stars, score a bunch of points, win a ton of games, and finish as great playersLeBron, Wade, Kobe, are guys that will finish as legendary players. There will never be another Bird, Magic, Hakeem, Kobe, LeBron, or Wade. Some comparing, it is pointless
