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Old 03-30-2009, 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
I dont think he is near the ahtlete Jackson was. I think Lawson has a chance to be Raymond Felton the 2nd. A bottom 1/3rd of the league PG on a weak team. Didn't Hudson declare last year and go back to school?
Felton has averaged:
14.0 and 7.0
14.4 and 7.4
13.7 and 6.8 this season

Those aren't great but they are respectable and even a little bit more when you look at the team he plays for. The Bobcats are the second lowest scoring team in the league and points are at a premium there. I don't agree with you in him being in the bottom third. I'd put him in the top 15.

I'm not sure what kind of athlete Curry is but I know he's a big time player. Seeing what he did against major competition was enough to let me know that. Watching him this year was even more impressive. I thought he made a very smooth transition to point guard. He had a lot of turnovers but the more I watched, the more I became convinced that it was more his teammates fault than his. They seemed like they were never able to catch his passes but his passes were often on the mark. I think he's going to be able to hit the NBA and give a team 15+ a night and I think he might make a bigger contribution as a second team point guard because he's going to be much better than what any opponent will bring in.

I don't know about Hudson declaring last year but I think any team will be lucky to have him. He's only 6-2 but he's such a great athlete. He rebounds like he's 6-8. I know his league is full of suspect competition but over the past two seasons, he's gone for 35 and 10 boards against Memphis, 27-11 against Mississippi St, 26-11 against UNLV, 36-9 against Vanderbilt, and 33-12 against Auburn. That's getting it done. Last year, he had 11 double-doubles and two triple-doubles (one of them a quadruple). This year, 11 more double-doubles. He's also had 10 games where he missed a double-double by just one rebound. Now, I don't expect him to produce like that in the NBA and of course, he won't be putting up 7+ boards a night in the league but there are some guys that are undersized that just have a knack for how to get it done. Guys like Lafayette Lever and Jason Kidd. Guys like Rajon Rondo and Russell Westbrook, both guys in that 6-1 to 6-3 range that average around five boards a game.
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