Easily a top 15 guy. Reggie Williams time is nigh. Lin/Bev/Brooks/Isiah Harden/Garcia Parsons/Casspi/Brewer Jones/Donatas/Covington Howard/Asik/Smith if Camby is done for the year
I just had a good hunch about this guy. I knew somehow he would go back to his rookie days in Sac where he used to torch us instead now, he's on our side. Casspi is the spark plug this team needs when Harden, Howard, Parsons, or Lin is have an off night. Dead eye shooter, decent scorer around the basket with his only weakness being on defense. Also, really nice to have the other guy from Sac Garcia who will come through big for this team again.
I have to give him credit 10 boards last game and 9 rebounds this game. He is on roids and rebounding like a crazy Manimal. No pun intended
He just needs to bring it in a regular game. Morey most probably looked at his rookie season in SAC where he was in the conversation for ROY. Except that his efforts got hijacked by the Tyreke Evans for ROY movement. I know he's just happy to be playing in a system that frees the players to play as long as they move the ball and take good shots. He is playing like Parsons does and is actually outshining him (a bit).
So you're saying we cloned Chandler Parsons and both of them make less than a million bucks this year?
I think they are different. Casspi feeds off confidence and crowd more. He is not as committed to Defense other than his Defensive rebounding but he can get better there. He seemed to be a better rebounder (speechless there), an underrated passer. I would say he is a much younger, athletic Garcia who does not shoot as much but slashes, rebounds in a high rate, makes plays, and does the dirty job occasionally. He isn't as good as Chandler in the intangibles department though.
To add to that, he's mostly playing against the second units, while Parsons plays against starters. Playing off the bench suits Casspi better, IMO. Parsons is also a better ballhandler. Like others said, it has only been a stretch during three preseason games, but it can't be denied he made the most out of his opportunities so far. I really liked the fastbreak pirouette pass for the Parsons dunk. He seems to enjoy playing again, and I don't think he had that after his rookie year (where he got into the doghouse of first with Paul Westphall and then with Byron Scott). Like daywalker said, confidence is a big issue for him. I'll doubt he'll be able to keep up the high shooting percentages, but as long as he rebounds, passes and is not a liability on D, he'll be rotation player.
well observed. Although I think he might be able to keep up a reasonable amount of scoring which is his forte. around 8 ppg career scorer He was a 9-10 ppg scorer with Sacramento but has not logged more than 25 mpg and rarely logged more than 20+mpg in Cleveland. I think here he will get between 28-30 mpg depending on his play. We will save Garcia for the playoffs, play him less. Casspi can score up to 12ppg if he is hot.
Casspi is a dead eye shooter, I've seen I think it was around 10 minutes video of Casspi shooting drills, he could not miss a 3.
How insane is that? We may have a 5th scoring option in case the first 4 are all having an off night!
Well I doubt all 4 would be off on a particular night that's why I said or. But yes, Casspi could definitely be our fifth option. He's a better offensive option than Parsons IMO, but Parsons brings more of the intangibles.
I want to see how well Casspi plays when his shot isn't falling. Can he contribute in other areas enough to keep him on the floor (spreading the floor, rebounding, defending, passing)? There's no way he's going to keep up this kind of shooting.
I did notice, at least from these few games, that he is a pretty good rebounder and passer. His court awareness is very good, and he has the Parsons-pump-fake working out for him. Of course, still need more sample size, but Casspi seems like a very controlled player so far.
If he keeps up this kind of rebounding, there is no reason why can't be our primary PF, especially when he will be always playing next to Asik or Dwight.
