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Shine wrote:Um, you guys do realize that in the NBA Beasley is going to play the 3 and not the 4 right??? You realize he's only 6'7 in bare feet?? You realize he has range past the 3 point line??

His NCAA range has been excellent. Usually the guys that do that well from the college line tend to easily adapt to the NBA 3.

Beasley is listed at 6'9" -- but then again, if I played bigtime hoops, they'd probably list me at 6'4", since those height listings are generally crap. I think it's quite likely he'll end up at the 3.

As for his college career, since this is the college forum last I checked, Beasley is in the lead for national POY and has a shot to lead K-State to a Big 12 title.

From a statistical/on-court standpoint, it's hard to argue against his POY cred. But I'm kind of old school when it comes to that stuff, and I'd always want to reward upperclassmen if I had a vote. Although it would be hard to vote for anyone but Beasley, I'd have to give serious consideration to Hansbrough, or maybe even DJ White, a senior (it's CBB -- wtf is a "senior"?).

Jumping back to the NBA real quick since it was touched on in this thread, Durant is struggling as bad as he is because he's being played out of position.

Yes and no. Frankly at this point, he doesn't really have a position. Too big and slow for the 2, but being he can't bench 185, and of the bigger, bulkier 3's would have an absolute field day at his expense posting him up. I seem to remember discussing what a huge red flag his inability to outmuscle the likes of Reggie Miller or Mugsy Bogues would be.

He could be very mediocre if they played him in his correct spot.

I chuckled.

But in the story of Durant's serious underachievement, let's not toss him under all of the bus's wheels -- let's not discount how horrifically incompetent his coach is... take it from a Blazer fan just how inept the assclown known as PJ is. He destroys gameplans/stategies, he destroys players' confidence and rhythm, and pretty much dooms his players to mediocrity and as quick a trip to U-Haul as their contracts allow.

Oh, but his paper numbers look nice and he'll be the ROY.

Undoubtedly. The voters won't even look at the fact you can count the number of games in which he made half his shots or more on one hand and have fingers to spare. I think Horford has been better overall, but he's on a whole team full of chuckers, and their gameplan doesn't allow for Horford putting up any sort of scoring numbers, which is what wows the voters.

Prolly ring up some nice endorsement checks too.

Already was before he ever hit the NBA hardwood. Adidas hooked him up fat. I guess they felt they had to, after it became clear that Oden was going to be the first Blazer to sign a bigtime deal with Nike, so cross-town rival Adidas (used to be in Beaverton near Nike, they moved) probably felt that had to get "the other one."


Unless the Sonics organization makes some radical changes from top to bottom (which is at least partially in the works), I wouldn't be suprised to see Durant walk away.

ho-hum... Beasley with 28 points and 7 rebounds at Baylor... in the 1st freaking half!

No mas.

Lost to the Longhorns, at home. Awesome.

PrimeX wrote:Lost to the Longhorns, at home. Awesome.

And that diminishes Beasley's worth as a player how??

He only went for 30 pts and 15 boards.......not much of a game......the loss rests squarely on his shoulders.

The problem is that after Beasley and Walker (who's a head case) KSU doesn't have shit. One or two players can't win many ball games for you against decent teams.

Those two accounted for 75 in that 92-86 loss at Baylor. 75 of 86 points? That's an astounding number, which says more about their inept teammates that it does about them.