https://www.thetournament.com/news/2-team-fredette-cruises-past-1-scarlet-gray-100-78 Look at the shape that James Fredette is in! Morey must sign the light-skinned version so Steph Curry.
I actually like Jimmer but his defense must be worse than advertised for not one NBA team to take a chance on him.
He needs the ball and trust for him to initiate to be successful, if he could modify his game to catch and shoot more - he would be snapped up and in a rotation today. DD
Ohio State's team wasn't as good this year. Greg Oden was a sideshow. I'm still surprised they were blown out by Team Fredette. Thursday night against Eberlein Drive should be great theater! Jimmer vs. Jerome Randle. The semis are where TBT games get chippy.
I thought at the very worst Fredette could carve out a Boobie Gibson type career. Meanwhile, Seth Curry is on a multi-year deal. How did he fall so far?
I don't think so, but I'll ask him later. (Anyone know if Bibby lives in Southwest Austin? Secretly? My neighbor doesn't even have a hoop in his driveway!)
I chalk it up to playing for irrelevant teams who were looking for him to blossom into a potential starter versus well-built contending teams that could use him as a bench gunner. I've always wanted Morey to send him a camp invite or try him in a roster spot instead of Bobby Brown or Briante Weber.
The Spurs signed him to their training camp back in 2015, but cut him before the season began. That was it for his NBA career.
Speaking of that, me and Jimmer went to BYU at the same time and I remember watching him and Kawhi play Mountain West conference games several times. If you had told me Jimmer would wash out in 4-5 years cut by the Spurs and Kawhi would be a controversial superstar ditching the Spurs, I would've said you're absolutely crazy. They didn't play him in summer league and gave him 26 minutes total in the preseason where he shot 20% on 10 shots (0-3 from 3). However he averaged 10 points on 50% 3 point shooting one pre-season prior with the Pelicans. At that point the Spurs had Parker, Ginobili, Green, the corpse of Andre Miller, Patty Mills, and a few other journeyman guards. Must have just not wanted to take a flyer on developing a question mark guard at that point. I think other teams took getting cut by the Spurs as a black mark. But in the NBA he shot 38.1% from 3 in super erratic minutes on some super erratic teams. I don't see why he couldn't be used as the 2018 version of Isaiah Thomas or Gerald Green in a rotation - throw 'em in and see what you have that night! He played Summer League for the Nuggets in 16-17 with a 22.35 PER. Meanwhile, everyone here was freaking out about Danuel House with 19.62 PER, who just got a camp invite from the Warriors. Maybe Fredette is to me what Jared Uthoff is to Bballholic... but in sports I just hate when interesting players don't get a chance in a good fit.
Wow, Greg Oden is alive. And took 1 shot? And Jimmer was playing for fellow BYU-ers Davies and Abouo. Davies was a pretty solid double-double threat at all times in college who played 2 seasons in Philly during the dark ages.
Other players with DBPM less than -3 in multiple seasons: Kevin Martin, Lou Williams, Jamal Crawford, JJ Redick, Isaiah Thomas (Isaiah was worse than -4 this year. Crikey.) Gotta use one way players in one way roles.
Ray McCallum earned a roster spot from them that year and he had even less experience than Fredette, so they were certainly willing to develop a young guard. I think there has to be something to the rumor's of Fredette's attitude, even if he doesn't come off as a diva in interviews. If the Spurs spoke highly of him it's likely another team would try to find a spot for him. Couple that with his defense woes and I could see why teams no longer gave him a shot. He truly was one of the worst defenders I've ever seen. Completely outmatched on the NBA level.
Not debating that he has his flaws, not sure if diva is one of them but it could be. It just amazes sometimes how some scrubs continue to get opportunities and other guys wash out so quickly. I bet some of the ex-pats playing in China and Europe right now are better than 10% of guys on NBA rosters and 75% of the guys in Summer League. Sometimes it's like the NBA just collectively forgets that a guy exists.
