It should be noted, since no one has had the sense to refute it yet that Luke Babbit has nothing in common with Joe Alexander (save race) Alexander was successful in college because he was an elite athlete and pretty much nothing else. His high athleticism made him a great college defender and obviously that did not translate to the NBA. Babbit had 50x the offensive game that Alexander does. Its not even close. I don't know if Luke has the defensive ceiling to make him a prominent two-way player in the league but he will score. I don't think there is a proper place for Babbit here, but if we think he has a huge ceiling than I will trust in Morey.
I havent heard much on Luke. How is his defense? dude can shoot thats for sure, if he is available at 14....ooooh?
I have good feelings about Whiteside, but I don't care. This year, for sure, I'll be excited about whomever DM picks. I just really, really, hope he doesn't trade down... though I'm sure it will be the right thing, if he does.
The reviews on his D seem to be that he plays with a lot of effort and smarts, but lacks the footspeed to properly guard threes and the strength to guard fours. I don't see him as a PF in anyway, I think he is strictly a small forward. He probably can end up a decent defender at the three spot who struggles with quicker players.
Ok, so power forward. Let's see....... Dirk David West Duncan Kenyon Martin Kevin Durant Amare Boozer Gasol Aldridge Paul Millsap Bosh Josh Smith Lamar Odom McDyess Blair Landry ....................................... and the list goes on and on of NBA PFs who will school Whiteside. Whiteside is a skinny rail who is not going to be able to stop anybody. They will go into his body and flatten him and then get their dunk and 1. I will be totally shocked if we pick him.
I hope we pick Whiteside or Udoh, if we don't move up. Udoh has experience, while Whiteside has huge upside and has amazing length even if he's just raw talent. Plus I think we're pretty much set in the backcourt with Brooks/Lowry Martin/Bud Ariza/Battier We just need more length and a long center who can take some of Yao's minutes
Wow!!LOL ... Chill dude.. :grin: First of all you act as though we're going to throw Whiteside right into the deep end of the pool, without even getting his feet wet, Sheesh. Even Morey said that "If" we stay at 14th, he doesn't expect that player to contribute much next season. With that said "If" we stay at 14th, and draft Hassan Whiteside we're probably going to develop this kid by having him go to the D-League (ala Brooks and Landry). As well as having him constantly working with Yao, Dawson, Scola and even Hakeem during practice and summer. Which will undeniably help his game in the post, as well as help to full fill his enormous potential. Second of all from all the people you named only three of them come of the bench(Landry is a starter in Sac). So chance's are Whiteside wont receive to much exposure(until his ready) to a lot of the guy's you mention. Plus once Whiteside start to get some playing time, I whole heartedly believe that he will receive those minutes at the back-up center position. PS. Kevin Durant is a SF not a PF ... SMH --RB
Wow you managed to use all of the cliche draft buzzwords in a single sentence, length, raw, upside. I agree with your post fwiw.
We are not building from scratch. We are a midstream playoff team looking to compete for a championship. Hassan is a project. Drafting him is a total waste of several million dollars and a roster spot next season. I will be utterly shocked if we draft him. I would not be shocked if he fell to the end of the first round or even into the 2nd round. Morey's draft history is to draft guys that can play.....right now. This dude couldn't score playing one on one against Hilton Armstrong. Doesn't that tell you something? We're not drafting him.
according to NBAdraft.net players houston worked out: Rockets 4/24/10 Aubrey Coleman SG Houston Senior Rockets 4/24/10 Deon Thompson PF North Carolina Senior Rockets 4/24/10 Jeremy Wise PG NBDL Eligible Rockets 4/24/10 Wayne Chism PF Tennessee Senior Rockets 5/7/10 Bryan Davis F/C Texas A&M Senior Rockets 5/7/10 Kelvin Lewis SG Houston Senior Rockets 5/7/10 Latavious Williams PF NBDL Eligible Rockets 5/7/10 Manny Harris SG Michigan Early Entrant Rockets 5/7/10 Marqus Blakely G/F Vermont Senior Rockets 5/15/10 Courtney Fortson PG Arkansas Early Entrant Rockets 5/15/10 Darington Hobson SF New Mexico Early Entrant Rockets 5/15/10 Elliot Williams SG Memphis Early Entrant Rockets 5/15/10 Samardo Samuels PF Louisville Early Entrant Rockets 5/15/10 Terrico White G Ole Miss Early Entrant Rockets 5/15/10 Willie Warren G Oklahoma Early Entrant Rockets 5/28/10 James Anderson SG Oklahoma State Early Entrant Rockets 5/28/10 Nic Wise PG Arizona Senior Rockets 5/28/10 Paul George SF Fresno State Early Entrant Rockets 5/29/10 Omar Samhan C St. Mary's Senior Rockets 5/29/10 Patrick Patterson PF Kentucky Early Entrant Rockets 5/29/10 Tim Ohlbrecht PF Germany Int.Eligible Rockets 6/14/10 Willie Kemp PG Memphis Senior Rockets 6/15/10 Marqus Blakely G/F Vermont Senior Rockets 6/16/10 Jermaine Beal PG Vanderbilt Senior http://www.nbadraft.net/2010-nba-draft-workout-master-list
