If this game against Memphis is any indication, Alvin Gentry is mostly benching Beasley as a disciplinary action. He's at 10 minutes played with 5 minutes to go in the fourth. And then I don't know what they're doing with our beloved Scola, but he's at 13 minutes himself, even though he quote "started" today. That whole team is a real mess.
He's rich and he doesn't care that much about being a great basketball player. Cool Beas just wants to have fun.
Beasley either led the nation or was among the top 5 in scoring and rebounding as a true freshman in the Big XII. That looks like a pretty sure fire pick looking back on it. You just never know how a kid is going to act once he gets big money. There are some that want more and they are some that are content and think they own the world. It seems Beasley is the dude content to cash the check without working to be the best.
Every team that acquires Beasley arrogantly believes he just needs a change of scenery, and they'll be the team that can keep him in check. It never works.
How? The Lakers are already full of knuckleheads. Jackson's not coming back and Kobe's too old for this ****.
This is why Sam Presti is a great NBA talent evaluator, and Riley isn't. Russell Westbrook at #4? Reach based on consensus opinion James Harden at #3? Reach based on consensus opinion It's the job of the team front office people to sort out the overhyped and the true studs. Rather than doing little homework and making draft debacles like trading 3 1st round picks for (could've been #1 pick) Eddie Griffin.
This is exactly what GMs think to themselves right before making the same Beasley mistake as everybody else. Beasley's trajectory is something like a two or three deep rotation player on a loaded championship squad, and only after years and years of maturation and struggle. Kind of like a modern day Stephen Jackson. But Beasley will be destroying team chemistry on quite a few other rosters before he finally reaches that stage.
The All Mental Head Case Team. West, J.R Smith, Beasley, Blatche, McGee. 6th Man - Royce White. Sick Team.
It's always easy to second guess after the fact. The truth is you would draft him at #2 too if you were the GM. "College career Beasley at Kansas State. Beasley began his freshman year at Kansas State in the fall of 2007. In the 2007–2008 regular season, Beasley was one of the most dominant players in the country. His 26.2 points (third-leading) and nation-leading 12.4 rebounds were the most by a Big 12 player in any season. His 866 total points and 408 rebounds ranked third and second among all freshmen in NCAA history. He also led the nation in double-doubles (28), 40-point games (three), 30-point, 10-rebound games (13), and 20-point, 10-rebound games (22).[9] His 28 double-doubles broke the freshman double-double record previously held by Carmelo Anthony[9] who had 22 double-doubles in his only season at Syracuse in 2002–03. On February 23, 2008, Beasley scored a Big 12 record 44 points in a 86–92 loss at Baylor.[10] (This mark has since been matched by Kansas State's Denis Clemente.[11]) Beasley became known as an unstoppable force when shooting, finishing the season shooting 53.7 percent from the field (282 of 525). He also finished the season shooting 39.5 percent from 3-point range. Beasley holds 30 Kansas State career, single-season and freshman records as well as 17 Big 12 single-game and single-season marks. Beasley guided the Wildcats to a 20–10 record and a 10–6 Big 12 Conference record. Some of the key conference victories were a win at Oklahoma and, a home victory against Texas A&M, and a victory against then-unbeaten No. 2 Kansas, marking the first time in over four years that Kansas State defeated a Top 10 team at home (Kansas State beat No. 10 Texas, 58–48 on March 6, 2004), the first time K-State beat Kansas in Manhattan since 1983 and the first-ever victory against the Jayhawks in Bramlage Coliseum. The win partially backed up a boast he had made before the season about K-State's prospects against the Jayhawks: “We're going to beat Kansas at home. We're going to beat them in their house. We're going to beat them in Africa. Wherever we play, we're going to beat them.[12] ” On March 1, 2008, his boast did not come true, as Kansas won the return match in Lawrence, 88–74 despite 39 points and 11 rebounds from Beasley. He matched a Big 12 record by equaling former Kansas player Drew Gooden's record for most double-doubles in a season (25).[13] With his 33-point, 14-rebound effort against Colorado on March 4, he eclipsed Mitch Richmond's 20-year-old school single-season points record (768; 1987–88), while he broke the Big 12 record for double-doubles in a season with his 26th for the year.[14] He is just the 27th player in NCAA Division I history to post 26 or more double-doubles in a season and the first since Utah's Andrew Bogut (26) did it in 2004–05."
a guy like bynum is risky too but very talented, should teams not risk it? no risk no gain unless u can buy superstars like the lakers.
If you're an athletic 20-something with pockets lined with cash you'd probably have a couple of benders like this too. Maybe you won't because that's morally abhorrent to you, but a lot of men in his position would be doing the same thing. You could use all those pics of Harden visiting strip clubs and throwing out wads of cash to illustrate the same point here. The problem, of course, appears to be that Beasley doesn't really care so much for the NBA as he does for the lifestyle.
And if I were to ever own the Rockets, the first thing I'd do is make sure I have absolutely no say in who to draft. Because I am a basketball fan.
this. players can still go crazy but they need to have work ethic.. which beasley apparently has 0 his twitter name is @IMABIG0
Add Cousins to the list...and scratch Royce White, he wouldn't show up. Just being #Honest #Transparent #Accountable
