Looks like EG is desperate to hoop up with a team now. If Nets, Laker and Heat do not want him, then there's no reason to think he'll pan out with any team at this moment.
you know the rocket's management fukked up right???? now that eddie griffin is with the t-wolve's hes gonna learn some post up moves from the best. they probly wont allow him at the 3 point line anymore (ala lamar odon, stan van gundy). they probly gonna concentrate him more on blocking shots and rebounding. whats one team's trash is another team's treasure. eddie could back up garnett or start eddie at power forward and garnett at the three. (the position he played when he first came into the league.
I'm telling you, EG is Joe Smith with better weakside shotblocking ability. I think the T-Wolves are going to be finding that out. They're even signing EG on the cheap like how they did with Smith. I'm not saying I believe in fate, but there are some pretty interesting parallels between EG and JS. We'll see, I guess.
m_cable...i think EG has potential to be a much better rebounder than smith. in his rookie season EG up more than a few double digit rebounding games late in the season
Yes. He reportedly drew interest from several teams. He's looking at a very low contract. He was a lotto pick and showed some good talent in his rookie season. I'm sure there are a couple of teams that would like to take a low-cost/high-reward gamble on Griffin. And, while each team can sign 15 guys, EG can have only 1 team. So, while it is certainly possible that Miami and LA considered him and decided against signing him, I find it more likely that EG chose one of several suitors and declined invitations from the others.
well... if you consider that at this point Richard Jefferson is Horry and e.g. is Minor, that's a good analogy.
We're all speculating here. The fact is EG is a criminal and a drug abuser and he's more likely than not done in the NBA. I think the desperate party is E.G not the other way around.
He may or may not be a criminal and a drug-abuser now. He had been both previously. But neither condition (in the present or in the past) will mean much if he can ball and can stay on target with the team. Saying he's a criminal and a drug-abuser is just name-calling. The real questions are Can he play? and Can he help the team? He is desperate. If he falls off the wagon again, chances are against his getting back on. But, that doesn't mean that teams aren't looking to sign him now. His desperation means he's looking at a contract in the hundreds of thousands and not the millions. It doesn't mean, though, that he doesn't have a couple of teams to pick from. He may.
I wonder if that means the Twolves are not high on Ebi. Still pissed at that punk for screwing the Arizona Wildcats. I guess EG and Ebi can compete for KG's practice dummy. Not a bad move by the Wolves. Despite those people still pissed at him and thinking he will never amount to anything, EG still has shown more in the NBA, and has much higher ceilling, than your typically FA min player. You have to have your head buried in the sand not to realize that.
You nailed it on the head Juan. People where lining up knocking on Eddie's door not the other way around. Which should validate even more Eddie's raw talent. Not many guys with EG's history get 3-4 teams bidding for their services unless they have some serious potential. You could make a case that if Eddie, Kwame Brown, Tyson Chandler, Eddy Curry, and Dwight Howard were all eligible in the same draft leaving their HS senior years, Griffin would be the undisputed #1 pick in terms of overall talent. Kwame Brown doesn't have the post game. Chandler doesn't have his offensive skills. Curry isn't the athletic. Howard isn't as polished. Do a comparison with Emeka Okafor and Eddie comes out ahead there as well. They both played against the same level of competition in the Big East. Only Eddie did it as a freshman at Div I Seton Hall, scoring 17.4 points per game and grabbing 10.8 rebounds per game as well as leading the Nation with 4.5 block shots per game and being named College freshman of the year. Compare those numbers to Okafor’s stats in his junior year at Connecticut of 17.6 points, 11.5 rebounds and 4.1 blocks per game. Yeah sure knowing Eddie’s past if you had to choose between the 2 you would choose Okafor. But that doesn’t take away from the fact that Eddie accomplished the same kind of numbers as Okafor only Eddie did it his freshman year while Okafor had to wait till his Junior. Also you might want to know they both were born in 1982 and Eddie is only 4 months older than Okafor. If you are talking character than you have to give it to Okafor but if your talking talent than it’s not a stretch to pick Eddie. So yeah alot of people here are still interested in Eddie but only because we had such high hopes for him at Houston and those are gone. Personally I still wish him well and I do believe he will be successful. That's just a hunch but look at what he said to the reporter at the Airport. "I've got to make this work," the troubled player told Houston television station KRIV on Monday before catching a flight to Minneapolis. "If I mess this up, it will give people the impression I am not trying to do the right thing," That's more than Eddie ever said at Houston and I for one believe him.
No, we already know the answer to those questions; the answer is "some." The REAL questions are "Can he show up for training?" and "Can he make team flights?"
Wouldn't it be wierd if he wins the championship this year? Becoming the first of the new era Rockets to do so. Good luck Eddie!
Exactly. A lot of people talk about Eddie and his 'potential'. There are TONS of guys that have a lot of 'potential', but that's the easy part. The hard part is having the disipline and work ethic(yes a little redundant) to capitalize on that talent. Eddie has shown neither. That, mixed with a horrrrrrrrrrrrible jumpshot(years of bad form can't be unlearned quickly) and no post up game...I don't know, I just can't see how people choose to blindly ignore all the signs and think he's going to be something special. In college EG got by on his height and athleticism alone and never improved. He actually got worse and more selfish as the season went on. There is a reason he dropped from the possible #1 pic to the 7th. Now look at his NBA stats. From year 1 to 2 the dude got worse in everything except fg%, which was a slight improvement. Defensively Eddie was a decent shot blocker, but horrible defender. He'd blow defensive assignments one right after another, why else did you think JVG wanted to get rid of this kid? Was it JVG's fault? Hell no. If EG actually took this 'basketball thing' seriously he wouldn't be where he is now. He's had plenty of chances, and he'll get some more thanks to his age. But GMs know they're going out on a hellava limb with this guy. Not so much with the money(no one is confident in him enough to offer a long contract, for good reason) but the risk they take in screwing with their team chemistry. Now that I think of it, maybe it's a GOOD thing he's going to the T-wolves.
