2008 nba draft Stories - Burnt Orange Nation
NBA Draft Review for the Mountain West
In yesterdays NBA Draft two players from the Mountain West Conference. The first was J.R. Giddens from the University of New Mexico and was selected by the world champion Boston Celtics. Giddens has the talent who could have been a lottery pick, but with all of his off the court issues is...
Trent Plaisted hires agent not returning to BYU
[digg http://digg.com/basketball/Trent_Plaisted_hires_agent_not_returning_to_BYU/share] BYU Junior Trent Plaisted has hired an agent which means he will not be able to return to BYU as a Senior, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. Plaisted signed with Mark Bartelstein and Priority Sports and...
Catching Up With Ante Tomić & Tadija Dragicevic
2008 NBA Draft With the draft coming up, I thought I'd try to find out where last year's second-picks Ante Tomić & Tadija Dragicevic are at right now. First, I stated last year that neither one of them will end up playing for the Jazz. I still don't think they will be donning a Jazz uni soon,...
Polling GSoM: Which rookie forward will have the better sophomore campaign?
The 2009 NBA Draft class had a stellar first year. Derrick Rose, Michael Beasley, OJ Mayo, Russell Westbrook, Kevin Love, Eric Gordon, DJ Augustin, Brook Lopez, Jason Thompson, Anthony Randolph, Marreese Speights, JaVale McGee, and Ryan Anderson (Who would've thought? Everyone was thinking the Cal...
Revisiting the Final 08 Draft Board
As part of our ongoing effort for quality control here at Hoopus I thought it would be an interesting idea to revisit last year's final draft board to see where we went wrong (and right) with our college player rankings. After all, the way this season is going (even of late), one of the most...
Looking At Rookies on Ziller's Pure Point Scale
The following is an independent work based off of the previous work done by Tom Ziller for BallHype.com. While Ghostface Ziller was kind enough to provide me with the resources for this analysis, he was not involved in this project, nor does this column present any data he supports. I'm basically...
Premature Evaluation: Derrick Rose
Premature Evaluation looks at how certain rookies seem to be fitting in at this point in their very young careers, and what the next year looks like for them. It's based on an extremely limited set of information like summer league, and roster changes that we haven't seen in action yet. So we're...
2008 Rocky Mountain Revue, second thoughts on draft, and news
via www.nba.com Even the official Utah Jazz site doesn't have the teams mentioned for the Rocky Mountain Revue, but if you follow The Fan Sports pre-sale link, you can find the following teams, Dallas Mavericks Atlanta Hawks San Antonio Spurs New Jersey Nets Golden State Warriors FIBA...
Morning Coffee Is Principled, Damnit
On Mackovic. Talking to my brother this evening, he noted that he wished I'd delved further into details on Mackovic's career at Texas. Honestly, I'd planned to, but it's time to start digging into Greg Davis, and that's going a lot slower than I'd anticipated. Left to choose between wasting a full...
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