He has knees, he doesn't have ACLs which apparently is not as important as most people think. And don't talk about Blair as if he is some scrub, Blair was so good he was outrebounding entire college teams. If we didn't have Hayes, Landry and Scola but were paper thin on scoring wings I'm willing to bet Morey wouldn't have passed on him.
He will be a pretty effective first year guy but you can pencil him in for most shots blocked in the league this year in he plays more than 15 minutes a night. If Mutombo still played he would have salivated at the prospect of playing against Blair to pad his BPG.
Your completely delusional if you think picking Dorsey was a last minute thing on draft night. Where did you come up with that? Portland did not draft Joey Dorsey, Morey and the rockets did, all Portland did was call in the pick after a deal was consumated. Most deals are cut before your "free flowing" draft starts and every team is ready to react at any point in the draft as far as picks based on how they value the talent on there own draft board. Hindsight is always 20/20, but Mario Chalmers would have been the nice insurance pick and I was shocked Morey passed on him.
Blair is short, heavy, has limited range and has bad knees.... not a good option for a running team. You give a guy without acl's a lot of playing time in a 82 game season and he won't last long. We have had our fill of great players that sit due to injury. I like the guy, in fact he is my favorite type player, but he doesn't fit in RA's system and I wouldn't give you a bag of funions for his ability to stay healthy in the NBA. Banging with college post players and banging with NBA players for 80+ games is a lot different.
Dorsey played 20 minutes today, and got 9 rbs (4 off & 5 def). I think he can contribute this season, but needs to control his fouls. 6 fouls in 20 minutes is Oden-like!
The fouls aren't surprising at all. He had these problems last year as well. He needs to work with the coaches and learn from Chuck.
Plus he needs playing time. You aren't going to get adjusted to a game unless you get playing time. If he can't prove himself in practice then he will more than likely always have this problem since he won't be able to get minutes.
Yes,without a doubt. This whole year is going to be an experiment. We have nothing to lose playing these youngsters. The better ones will emerge successfully.
Looks like Dorsey was right on from his initial press conference, he really was Ray Lewis trying to play basketball.
