How the hell did this guy end up goin in the second round, all the mock drafts had him goin in at least the top 15, and a few had him goin at #5
Teams could chose him at there won risk, because there is a chance he may go back to play in europe. knicks took a chance
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting "Dr. Funk":</div><div class="quote_post">Teams could chose him at there won risk, because there is a chance he may go back to play in europe. knicks took a chance</div> oh ok, id say its worth it in the second round
i seriously think laydin did somthin cuz as soon as the knicks drafted him fiba said it was a miscommunication at we will be able to play this season for a small buy out.....all the info i posted here http://justbball.hotmel.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3440
Yeah, basically the Knicks got a real steal. I don't know about the Vranes pick, but Lampe, anywhere past 15 is a great pick. Hopefully, he plays next year
no team draft him, cuz its a very high risk, y?all know foreign players coming to the nba and become just bench players. This happens to often.
The reason why Lampe slipped to 30 is because he had some buyout issues with his club. The contract buyout turned out to be much higher than what his agent was telling teams. This scared off teams in the lottery, by the he had slipped to the mid-first round teams were even more scared of him; he'd only worked out for teams in the lottery and teams in the mid-late first round didn't want to draft a guy with buy-out issues who they'd never even seen workout. End of story. Of course, the worst case scenario was that Lampe stays in Europe for 3 years before coming over, at which point he'd be 21 or 22 and more than ready to contribute to an NBA team after having dominated Europe for the past couple of years. Of course, 3 years is how long you'd expect a high-school player to develop, but apparently Minnesota really loved Nbudi Ebi and Memphis and Boston were more comfortable drafting Dahntay Jones and Kendrick Perkins. Morale of the story is, as always, teams make stupid mistakes. And lots of them.
good news for lampe is he was drafted in round 2 so he won't have any salary restrictions. his buyout is for 1.8M, so the knicks could pay $350,000 of that and then sign lampe for 2 million a season so he can pay off the rest. bottomline, lampe will be in the nba this year and the knicks got a steal. also a lot of teams passed on him because they made promises to other players that they wouldn't slip past their spot in the draft. and like rocco mentioned, a lot of teams didn't take the time to workout lampe.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting "jdub":</div><div class="quote_post"><div class="quote_poster">Quoting "Dr. Funk":</div><div class="quote_post">Teams could chose him at there won risk, because there is a chance he may go back to play in europe. knicks took a chance</div> oh ok, id say its worth it in the second round</div> Yeah, first round is risky, so they got sweetney. then second they chose lampe, i thought it was great.
Shapecity- its funny how that works out isn't it? Lampe will probably make more money than if he'd been picked in the late lottery. And its not that teams later in the first round didn't bother workign him out; Lampe was so confident he'd be a lottery pick he refused workouts to non-lottery teams...a common practice but one that hurt Lampe's draft position once he slipped from the lottery....Its the best thing to happen to the Knicks in quite some time. Of course they're poisoned until Alan Houston is off the books.
i haven t seen lampe play a lot. u have to think he can tbe THAT great i f he went in de second round
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting "olskoolFunktitude":</div><div class="quote_post">i haven t seen lampe play a lot. u have to think he can tbe THAT great i f he went in de second round</div> Only reason he went in the 2nd round was because of his contract problems...he would of been a top 10 pick.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting "HighHeat":</div><div class="quote_post">but see how less foreigners really get into superstar status</div> That's not necessarily true. Look at Dirk, Yao, Peja etc. The reason why there aren't as many international superstars right now because there are less international players in the league. The foreigners are proving that they can play with Americans in basketball.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting "HighHeat":</div><div class="quote_post">but see how less foreigners really get into superstar status</div> Don't forget Nash, Ginobili, Kukoc, Sabonis, Mutombo... the retired Olajuwon and Smits, and the late Drazen Petrovic... They may not be qualified as superstars all the time, but they all had their share of success and showed they can and could play the NBA game... It's a little narrowminded if you say that almost no foreigners have succeeded in the NBA...
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting "magicfrankie":</div><div class="quote_post"><div class="quote_poster">Quoting "HighHeat":</div><div class="quote_post">but see how less foreigners really get into superstar status</div> Don't forget Nash, Ginobili, Kukoc, Sabonis, Mutombo... the retired Olajuwon and Smits, and the late Drazen Petrovic... They may not be qualified as superstars all the time, but they all had their share of success and showed they can and could play the NBA game... It's a little narrowminded if you say that almost no foreigners have succeeded in the NBA...</div> Nash is a superstar all the time, none of those other guys compare to him
