Grades for 15 members of the 2010 Draft Class..

I think you’re being a little hard on Turner and Johnson. I’d have given both of them about a C-. Aminu probably deserves about a C+. He was able to create his shot and get out in transition, but his jumper looked pretty inconsistent and he was out of control at times.

It’s a good evaluation, but I think you were a bit easy on Favors and Aminu. For the first couple of games, Favors was really lost and it seemed like every time they’d set up a play to give him the ball in the post, he’d either get stripped or travel trying to get off a post move. Gani Lawal was seriously outplaying him in one game.

Aminu rebounded well, and showed that he has an above average handle, but his shot was not falling at all. He shot a little over 10 shots in every game, and must not have gotten over 35%. He showed a couple of great things, like his ability to get to the line, defense, rebounding, use of length, but he was also apathetic and indecisive.

DeMarcus had at least 2 atrocious games this summer league and he managed an A? I think you’re a little hard on evan turner also….

i liked your post however

Evan Turner didn’t deserve an F, more like something in the C range. Also, Tyreke Evans didn’t look bad in the SL last year.

Aminu didn’t deserve a B. He played below average, especially relative to his draft position. He lacked aggression in the 1st game or so, and then started getting too selfish and overaggressive in the rest of the games, which led to some inefficient playing. He also looked shaky on D, which is likely an experience thing.

Right on about everything else though IMO.

I agree with your Favors grading, but if it wasn’t for his last game in the Summer League he would have been sitting on a D. I think he and Ed Davis are going to have very similar rookie years, I’m curious to see which one becomes the better player.

I agree Joe…both Davis and Favors will be forced into early action due to lack of frontcourt depth on their respective squads

New Jersey’s only listed power forwards are Kris Humphries and Derrick Favors
That isn’t good news for a guy who needs time to develop and mature

Davis will probably have an up and down season and it may take 2 years before he starts to shine

1000th post BTW 🙂

Taylor, I give you an honorary “Booya”

It’s being hard, but I have no problem with Turner’s F.

He didn’t play well at all and I was shocked at just how uncomfortable he was playing off of the ball. He pouted A LOT and looked like he didn’t want to be there. I didn’t like his body language. That’s the main reason I’m okay with the F.

I think he’ll be a lot better in the regular season, but I just expected more out of the number two pick and the player I considered the most complete player in the class.

obviously no one ever wants to put too much into summer league, but turner tried so hard to beat guys off the ribble, but he never consistently got the seperation or blew by his man and was thus forced into pulling up and taking contested shots. When you are not a great perimiter shooter and your strength is beating guys off the dribble, you had better have the explosiveness to leave guys behind you and i didnt see that from turner.

Favors is gonna be fine i think. Playing alongside brook, all he has to do is the dirty work,. Rebound, defend and finish up baskets. He has those tools and the offensive skills will come in time. But he will look bad if they try and draw plays for him and go to him from day one.

Last year’s rookie of the year Tyreke Evans also played bad in SL…Grade F

I don’t think so. I remember Evans being dominant in at least 2 games he played ( 1 vs Brandon Jennings)

I think we need to be a little easy of Turner. Moving from dominating the ball to being off the ball is tough.

Turner will be just fine…He’s still my Rookie of the Year choice, even though John Wall does look like he may be legit faster than I thought.

He thoroughly impressed me in his first couple of games. He’s gonna be a legit beast down low and out to about fifteen. But the one thing I noticed was that in the first game in which he played poorly (I think the third or fourth game), he missed his first couple of shots and he let that take him out of rhythm. He started pressing and even started missing shots in close. I think he’s definitely gonna have to learn how to get past poor starts in a game.
I really thought people were overblowing his maturity issues but it looks like they were legit complaints.

“Seemed comfortable facing up with the ball in his hands..Showed that he can get his own shot..”
..for a lovely 29 percent shooting.

“Scouts thought they were seeing the 2nd coming of Moses Malone”
… correction, bad scouts thought they were seeing the 2nd coming of Moses Malone. I like Cousins, but he is playing 25 minutes per game for a couple years. Between the fouling and conditioning, he is going to need some time.

“Monroe started the week off slow..But picked it up as the week went on..Monroe displayed solid offensive polish..Has good fundamental skills..But did not stand out”

The problem Monroe faced early in the week was that Austin Daye and DaJuan Summers are black holes who were only looking for their shots. Until they figure out that they aren’t good enough to look for their own shot, neither will be in the Pistons rotation. Monroe, like Jerebko, will be in the rotation. Both can get numbers, but it isn’t their goal when on the court.

“Larry Sanders…Let the coaches know that he wants to be the Bucks starting Power Forward of the future”

… Scott Skiles will gladly point out that he won’t be. The Bucks gave Drew Gooden $30 million. He is their starting power forward. Ilyasova is far more skilled and polished, so he will be getting minutes as well. Tiny Gallon can provide interior bulk if he makes the team. Brockman might get a few minutes and rebounds on occasion. Skiles doesn’t play rookies just because they are first round picks, and he isn’t fascinated by shot blocking and highlight dunks. He already made a point of saying Sanders has to be a better defender and rebounder. He said the same things everytime he benched Tyrus Thomas, and unlike with Paxson in Chicago it doesn’t appear that the Milwaukee front office will force him to play guys he doesn’t think deserves it.