have you guys seen his play? Devin Harris goes down and this guy steps in without missing a beat. i know it's early, but talk about efficiency: vs ATL 9 min 5-6 shooting, 14 points vs SAC 29 min 9-11 shooting (4-4 3s), 25 points
He is short and uber quick sort of like Aaron Brooks, he scored 50+ in an NBDL game last year. IMO he is better than Harris....at least on offense. DD
Disagree. I've seen him play. Nobody flops like Harris. Nobody. The way Devin Harris flops, he puts Elizabeth Berkley to shame.
Brooks pwned Barea in the summer league.....those 2 might be squaring off against each other regularly in a few years
not really. Those guys dont nearly exaggerate like harris and the rest of the mavs. Its not even close. When hayes/battier/scola get a charge, its usually after solid contact is actually made. I cant remember seeing one of those guys flail around and act like they got shot by a sniper when no one even touched the. But barea is pretty solid little point.
If you want to get a charge call in this league, you have to sell it. There's a very clean way to do that, stand still, cross your arms or hold them straight down, and then be knocked down by the incidental contact. End of story. That's not what I call flopping though. Flopping is Jazz tactics. Flopping is waving your arms around and falling to the ground when you're stuck in the paint with nowhere for the ball to go. Flopping is faking an injury (which is where all these Europeans get it from naturally. A PK resulting from a flop in soccer that gives you a possibility for a goal is so much more important than a couple of FTs in the NBA, so the players learned it from that). It's dishonerable bullcrap that I won't condone even from players on my favorite teams.
Battier and Hayes are certainly not floppers....However, I really hope that Scola doesn't become one. Argentine players like Ginobili and Nocioni have had the reputation of flopping. No need for that on our team.
I think Francis can be used in a situation Dallas plays Berea. Offensively, that guy is a blur, but defensively you gotta post him up and make them pay.
I got to see him at Northeastern when I was living in Boston. The kid can straight up play. He was 3rd nationally in assists and 19th in scoring (I thought he was first in scoring but, I double checked) his senior year. He might become a star in the Mavericks system.
there is deffinetly contact where our players go for the chagre. those mav boys flip, flail, and fake big time.
This guy should have been noticed since 2004 FIBA game in Puerto Rico's national team, if Arroyo and Apodaca were not that shinning. Barea is fast, strong, and shots good, just as his national teammates. I like him, hope he's got a tough mind. Arroyo is the very example he would never wanna be.
that's what people have been saying... of course, it'll be really tough, but Nash didn't have very good rookie and sophomore seasons either
