OT - Dejuan Blair being annoyingly good

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  1. Rastapopoulos

    Rastapopoulos Well-Known Member

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    He's got 14 boards and 12 points in just over 17 minutes!

    I've got to believe that the Blazers felt that they just couldn't draft him after they'd made all that fuss about Miles's knees. It would have been too blatantly hypocritical.
     
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    welll kp targeted pendegraph...WTF if he turns out to be milsap I'm gonna be pissed
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    He basically has no ACLs in either knee, he may look good for a little while, but he's a ticking time bomb.
     
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    He has terminator knees!!!
     
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    Good for a little while is better than most second rounders ever do
     
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    Do you have any confirmation of this? I read dozens of articles this offseason, and I only heard innuendo.
     
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  7. BalancedMan

    BalancedMan That's out of context....

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    Exactly. This is what I was saying back in the draft. Even if he only plays for two or three years at a productive, healthy level (and I heavily doubt that will be the case) then he will be worth the second round pick we could have used on him. I think that we missed the boat going after both Cunningham and Pendergraph in the second round.

    I continue to say that Blair and Calathes would have been a better 1-2 draft at the top of the 2nd round. I like Pendergraph, but only if Blair wasn't available. Rebounding is the thing that transfers to the NBA more so than any statistic. Blair's lack of height is lessened by his monster wingspan and reach.

    Smart move for the Spurs, one of the few times I've been apt to criticize draft decisions in the KP era.
     
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    Isn't it funny though, that we didn't draft him because his knees, and the guy we drafted is out for the season from injury!
     
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    Except he isn't out for the year.
     
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    Naturally, he falls in the laps of the Spurs. I don't wish him ill will in terms of his health, but I hope for our sake that he doesn't pan out.
     
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    As opposed to never looking good?

    The best thing we've heard about Pendergraph is that he's going to be waiving a towel on the bench well, and that someday he MIGHT turn into a player.

    Why not get a guy who actually already is a player and worry about injury later?

    The Blazers missed out.

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    Blair scores 16 points on 15 shots and gets lit up by Carl Landry on defense.

    Spurs lose by 14.

    Is he a miniature version of ZBo?
     
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    he also had 19 boards in his first preseason game as a rookie

    i dunno

    i still wanted him, and i'd take him now
     
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    Blair might be pretty good, but you have to remember he was going against the smallest team in the NBA.
     
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    It seems to me that team with those "small" backups like Landry and Hayes slapped us around pretty well a few months ago.
     
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    That team also had one Yao Ming to offset that problem - and for at least a game also had the finger wagger.

    Blair is going to have a real problem scoring against teams with length - and if you pay attention to what Landry did to him on defense - try thinking what will happen when he has to go against bigger, stronger and better backup PFs...

    Yikes.
     
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    I'm not saying KP should have taken Pendergraph over Blair, I'm just saying it's unlikely that Blair will be able to play in a couple of years -- I was trying to offer the reason KP (and everybody else) passed up on him.
     
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    of course hes a steal.

    the spurs are the patriots of the nba.

    front office is just a step above everyone else
     
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    Are you going to have him play over Outlaw?
     
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    Wheels Is That A Challenge?!?!1! Staff Member Global Moderator

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