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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: Now_Im_Not_Banned on October 27, 2005, 05:00:06 PM
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The 2 players I woulda cleared off the roster...Now they need to cut 1 more. It's between Von Wafer, Devin Green, Sasha Vujacic, and Corie Blount. Kobe loves Von Wafer, and he's said to be amazingly athletic with a GREAT upside. Devin Green has a nice upside as well and the Lakers staff wanna keep him. Cutting Corie Blount will leave the front court lacking A LOT of depth. Cutting Sasha Vujacic could come back to haunt us when (if) he develops...Tough decision, I wonder who gets cut...Current Roster:
Smush Parker...Aaron McKie/Sasha Vujacic
Kobe Bryant...Laron Profit/Devin Green/Von Wafer
Lamar Odom...Devean George/Luke Walton
Kwame Brown...Brian Cook/Corie Blount
Chris Mihm...Andrew Bynum/Slava Medvadenko
Coach: Phil Jackson
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The 2 players I woulda cleared off the roster...Now they need to cut 1 more. It's between Von Wafer, Devin Green, Sasha Vujacic, and Corie Blount. Kobe loves Von Wafer, and he's said to be amazingly athletic with a GREAT upside. Devin Green has a nice upside as well and the Lakers staff wanna keep him. Cutting Corie Blount will leave the front court lacking A LOT of depth. Cutting Sasha Vujacic could come back to haunt us when (if) he develops...Tough decision, I wonder who gets cut...Current Roster:
Smush Parker...Aaron McKie/Sasha Vujacic
Kobe Bryant...Laron Profit/Devin Green/Von Wafer
Lamar Odom...Devean George/Luke Walton
Kwame Brown...Brian Cook/Corie Blount
Chris Mihm...Andrew Bynum/Slava Medvadenko
Coach: Phil Jackson
I doubt Vujacic will develop into more than a role player
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Who fucken cares, do we really need a thread for such a minimal move like this?
lets have an NBA news and rumours thread or something...
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Who fucken cares, do we really need a thread for such a minimal move like this?
lets have an NBA news and rumours thread or something...
Lakers fans care....
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Cut Green.
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Who fucken cares, do we really need a thread for such a minimal move like this?
lets have an NBA news and rumours thread or something...
Lakers fans care....
every team is cutting 2/3 guys atm, its not really newsworthy... but whatever
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TobyTizzle Lakers rules the board, remember that. Nobody really cares about other teams' minimal moves.
About Tony and Adam, well it's a logical consequence. Bobbit looked less brilliant than last year: he totally lost his outside jumpshot, and he wasnt reactive on defence. Parada is just an unknown dude, too young and too raw to spend a roster spot on him. About the other ones, Von Wafer is a lock, imo. It's between Corie Blount and Sasha Vujacic. Cut Vujacic. If it's possible (he has a guaranteed contract).
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poor guys, got their dreams ruined
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poor guys, got their dreams ruined
They can still work to make an NBA roster...Bobbit is probably talented enough to start for the Hawks and Parada is just a big guy in a league who's lacking 'em...
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Looks like it's between Profit & Green...
Green Can Make Big Leap
By Mike Bresnahan
Times Staff Writer
October 28, 2005
Devin Green could soon find out just how far he has come since the days of the Norfolk State-Hampton rivalry.
No disrespect to the unheralded Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, where conference games typically draw a couple of thousand fans, but Green has never been in a more important game than tonight's exhibition between the Lakers and Sacramento Kings.
Phil Jackson said Thursday that injured veteran forward Corie Blount would make the team, leaving Green and Laron Profit apparently fighting for the final roster spot. (There's a chance rookie Von Wafer will be waived by Monday's deadline instead of Profit or Green, although it is slim.)
Green, an undrafted 6-foot-7 guard out of Hampton, has averaged 4.5 points in exhibition play and has been a pest with his on-ball defense.
I say cut Green...I mean, he has upside and everything, but he won't be ready to REALLY contribute for another 2 years or so...Profit has the dank height advantage for a guard, which Phil perfers, and is known to be a hard worker...I see him being more useful for the season than Devin Green...Also, if they cut Green, he probably won't be back trying out for the NBA until next off-season, in which case the Lakers would be able to pick him up again if needed...Keep Profit...PeACe
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Cutting Green, which I expect they'll be doing, would leave the Lakers looking like this:
Starting Line-Up:
PG Smush Parker
SG Kobe Bryant
SF Lamar Odom
PF Kwame Brown
C Chris Mihm
Second unit:
PG Aaron McKie
SG Laron Profit
SF Devean George
PF Brian Cook
C Andrew Bynum
Third Unit
PG Sasha Vuvajic
SG Von Wafer
SF Luke Walton
PF Corie Blount
C Slava Medvadenko
...the team finally looks somewhat balanced out. 8)
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i just checked the box score on yesterday's game and it says parada is still in the team... ???
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Lakers add former HU player to roster
Devin Green earns a spot with the L.A. Lakers to become the second Hampton University alumnus to play in the NBA in the past 25 years.
BY MARTY O'BRIEN
247-4963
October 31, 2005
Devin Green says he was walking onto the practice court Saturday when a succession of Los Angeles Lakers teammates gave him the word, the word he'd been waiting to hear for years. The first was guard Aaron McKie.
"He told me, 'You made it to the big house,' " Green said.
Seconds later, Green says, forward Lamar Odom told him, 'Congratulations, you're a Los Angeles Laker.' "
Then shooting guard Kobe Bryant, a seven-time NBA All-Star, added the punctuation mark.
"He said, 'Congratulations, you earned it. Keep working hard.' "
Green, a 6-foot-7, 210-pound guard/small forward, will be on the Lakers' 15-man roster when they open their season Wednesday at Denver. He said he will earn the NBA annual minimum salary, about $400,000, an income that surely will put him at or near the top of Hampton University's 2004-05 senior class. Jerome Mathis, a rookie with the NFL's Houston Texans, is earning just under 400K.
Green is the first Hampton player to make an NBA regular-season roster since forward Rick Mahorn. Mahorn played with four teams during an 18-season career from 1980-99 and is best known for his role on Detroit's 1989 championship team.
Before Saturday, Green probably was most renowned for earning Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Rookie of the Year honors on the 2002 Hampton team that reached the NCAA tournament. Green capped his career at HU by earning a spot on the all-MEAC first team in 2005, when he averaged 14.1 points and 7.6 rebounds.
"Making the NBA has been my goal since stepping onto the campus at Hampton," Green said. "Hampton was a great place and a great experience. Making the NBA is a testimony to the hard work I put in there and since then.
"I'm a gym rat."
Green was invited to camp after averaging almost 12 points and six rebounds for the Lakers' summer-league team. Green said he was a sponge during camp, soaking up knowledge from Bryant and the other veterans to learn how to play on the professional level.
He believes that he impressed legendary coach Phil Jackson with his ability to do the little things, while blending in with his teammates on the court. Succeed or fail, Green certainly was hard to ignore in the final three minutes of the Lakers' 105-103 comeback win over Sacramento in the final exhibition game Friday.
With the Lakers behind by five, Green broke free in the lane to score on an up-and-under layup via an assist from Bryant, who had drawn two defenders. Back on the defensive end, Green intercepted a pass by the Kings' Francisco Garcia, leading to an Odom tip-in that cut the deficit to 96-95.
Then Green blocked out Garcia and rebounded his missed 3-pointer. The Lakers capitalized via Odom's two free throws to take the lead. Green later missed a layup after catching an alley-oop pass from Smush Parker in the final minute, but feels he proved he can contribute with the game on the line.
"That game was like my final examination," said Green, who averaged 4.1 points and 2.9 rebounds in seven exhibition games. "That game is not the whole reason I made the team, but it helped.
"I showed that I'm not going to go crazy in pressure situations, and that I'll play team ball and help us win. I feel blessed to be able to raise my game in certain situations."
Green spent Sunday, his first day off in a month, hunting for a place to live in the Los Angeles area. He's not planning to move any time soon.
"Making the Lakers is surreal for me," he said. "I'm not sure it's really hit me what I've accomplished, but I'm going to be in this league for a long time.
"This is only the beginning."
It looks like a Blount vs Profit thing.
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cutting blount would be a bad move, lakers arent too deep with big men.. mihm fouls a lot, bynum is 12, cook is an SG and slava plain sucks.
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I agree. But i think Profit is playing pretty well too.
Green making it to the final roster is a big surprise, i dont understand it.
Profit and Blount in, Green out. This is what i was expecting.
Blount is still a big body who knows the triangle.
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Who follows basketball during the regular season :nahnah: especially from Italy...get a fucking life.
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I agree. But i think Profit is playing pretty well too.
Green making it to the final roster is a big surprise, i dont understand it.
Profit and Blount in, Green out. This is what i was expecting.
Blount is still a big body who knows the triangle.
Yes...Now it seems as if Blount might be getting cut. I originally wanted Blount on the team, but I've been hearing that he himself doesn't even know if he'll be capable of playing (due to injury) anytime soon. Regardless, Kwame, Mihm, Cook, and (sometimes) even Odom will be getting most of the big-men minutes, so Blount wouldn't drastically contribute, though the presence of a defensive minded veteran could be helpful...It woulda' made more sense to cut Green (for this season), but I think that woulda' been stupid in the long-run, and the Lakers are obviously looking at the long-run...Green is athletic with upside, I like him coming off the bench at the 3 with Devean George...So it's between Profit and Blount, both who I'd want the Lakers to keep... :-\
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i just checked the box score on yesterday's game and it says parada is still in the team... ???
That was an error, they accidently replaced Smush Parker's name with Adam Parada's...
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I never liked the Blount signing in the first place, out with Blount
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this would be a great thread for the Lakers section
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Lakers Waive Corie Blount
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Oct. 31 -- The Los Angeles Lakers have requested waivers on forward/center Corie Blount, it was announced Monday.
Blount, signed during the off-season as a free-agent, missed each of the Lakers eight preseason games after suffering a sprained left foot during the Lakers training camp in Hawaii.
The 11-year NBA veteran most recently played for the Toronto Raptors and Chicago Bulls during the 2003-04 season, averaging 4.4 points and 4.0 rebounds in 62 combined games including three starts.
Selected by the Chicago Bulls with the 25th pick in the first round of the 1993 NBA Draft, Blount was originally acquired by the Lakers in 1995 and in 199 games with Los Angeles from 1995-1999, averaged 3.6 points and 4.0 rebounds in 14.6 minutes.
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I would have rather cut Sasha than Blount, but if Blount can't play, so be it. I was skeptical of that signing anyway.
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I never liked Blount...he's useless...its not like he was going to make some big contributions to the teams anyways...im glad he is gone ;D
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To cut Slava, Profit or Sasha is extremely harder than to cut Blount, Parada or Bobbit, cause they have a guaranteed contract. Even if they sucks, Lakers have to keep them (Profit is pretty good, but Slava and Sasha...).
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I would have rather cut Sasha than Blount, but if Blount can't play, so be it. I was skeptical of that signing anyway.
Blount coudn't help the lakers 8 years ago when he was a reserve & in his 20s. what makes u think he can help the lakers now?
the guys career is finished. he didnt even play last year. From watching the Preseason, Andrew Bynum will give u a hell of alot more than blount ever will.
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To cut Slava, Profit or Sasha is extremely harder than to cut Blount, Parada or Bobbit, cause they have a guaranteed contract. Even if they sucks, Lakers have to keep them (Profit is pretty good, but Slava and Sasha...).
It doesn't matter...The Lakers cutting Profit would just mean that the Wizards owe $800,000 for the season, there was no gaurantee for him on the Lakers...Slava wasn't going to get cut regardless, especially due to his experience under Phil in the triangle and the shortage of big bodies on the Lakers...If it weren't for Blounts injury, either Devin Green or Laron Profit would have gotten the boot...Sasha is still developing, so why would they cut him? He's barely been given a chance, it would be stupid to give up on him before even giving it a real effort. Sending Sasha to the NBDL would be a better option...Devin Green, most likely, will also be spending some time in the NBDL as well. I'm starting to believe Bynum might be able to contribute more than most people think and will eventually be part of the regular rotation halfway through the season...When I saw him play, he didn't seem as raw and lost as I'd expected him too...If he can contribute, there should be no regrets about the waiving of Corie Blount...If the Lakers find themselves in "big-men hell" during the season, they can always re-sign Blount and drop a player who hasn't been performing to expectations...PeACe
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I would have rather cut Sasha than Blount, but if Blount can't play, so be it. I was skeptical of that signing anyway.
Blount coudn't help the lakers 8 years ago when he was a reserve & in his 20s. what makes u think he can help the lakers now?
the guys career is finished. he didnt even play last year. From watching the Preseason, Andrew Bynum will give u a hell of alot more than blount ever will.
Blount has helped the Lakers in the past. He was a serviceable big-man off the bench, nothing amazing, but he was the perfect big body to play for 10-15 minutes...He's defensive minded, grabs rebounds, blocks shots, played the triangle under Phil, has 11 years NBA experience...I originally found the acquisation a good fill-in for the departure of Brian Grant, but with all the talent on the roster and his foot injury, it was hard to see him fill out a valueable spot on the roster...Hopefully it all works out.