Hey everyone, Im still relatively new here but I've always been keeping up with this site. Hopefully this first thread is not a bust. Anyway its no secret now that this guy can ball. He was beasting it up in the summer league and is as smooth a guy as I ever seen. He's so focused and seems unfazed by pressure and I know he can come up big down the stretch with some of the highlights I saw from Uconn but I still dont know too much about him. That being said do you think Jeremy Lamb can become flourish into becoming the leader of this team? I find it hard to imagine him as the leading type with his sleepy demeanor and he doesn't strike me as a very vocal person but he is an interesting prospect.
Lamb is a reincarnation of T-Mac when it comes to "want to". One of the reasons his stock fell. Kenna Walker was the leader on UConn.
Leader by example, maybe. He's a rookie though. It will take a while before he'll have to take on any kind of leader role.
Team is still being formed . . . Dude has not had his first training camp. Let's give him a second to adjust and develop before we anoint him leader . . . So far so good - but it's Vegas . . .
Let's actually throw him into an NBA game with far more polished defenders than SL players, and see if that still rings true. And what do you mean becoming the leader? Being the clutch player with 2 seconds left? Being the source of advice? I don't think he can do it, tbh, regarding something like Battier's role when he was with the Rockets; being something like the vocal leader is something I don't see happening.
He is a very interesting prospect, and people do tend to knock him (and another former Rocket) for their sleepy demeanor. But just because these guys look sleepy doesn't mean they cant be good vocal leaders. (soap box moment) I do think that when these guys get in the heat of the battle that the true leaders will step up, and I think that Jeremy Lamb could be that guy. But something tells me that that guy (if he's still here) would be Royce White. He just seems to have more of a us vs. them, "he ain't want no part of me" type of mentality. BTW I think it was a good 1st thread, I also think a poll would've been pretty cool just to see what everybody else is thinking...
a) Let's see if he's even on the team come training camp first b) Let's see if he's not terrible in actual NBA games before we proclaim him the team captain
Leader? I doubt it. It'll be interesting to see what he says in the team huddles though. "Iight, so umm... tonight's a big game tonight. We're playing umm... the Celtics and uhh... they're pretty good. Umm.... if we work hard we can uhh... we can umm.. yeah we can beat them. *yawns* "iight bring it in."
As of right now, Lin is the de facto leader as the starting PG and only guy that the team has committed to for the next 3 years. He seems to have some good leadership qualities, like rising up in clutch situations and talking and directing others on the court. What he lacks is gravitas and experience. He's no Larry Bird out there. Obviously Martin is way more of a veteran, but Martin has never been a leader and his time here is numbered.
Depends. For the time being, the captains seem to be Parsons and Lin, unless someone else decides to take up the mantle of "leader".
