NBA Draft 2009

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

Not the whole season. He played 26 games last year and averaged 18 points, four assists, and three turnovers per game while shooting 40% from the field (34% on threes).

The year before that, he averaged 15, three and a half assists, and three turnovers shooting 43% (32%).

Hardly bad numbers for a freshman and then a sophomore but hardly earth moving considering the conference he was playing in and after reading all of his Olympic press, you'd think he would be much better. The Olympics tend to do this with guys a lot. The Lakers took a guy off the Chinese Olympic team that can't get off their developmental squad. Some years back, I remember Andrew Gaze would kill people in the Olympics but was just an average college player. Does anyone believe Oscar Schmidt could have come to the NBA scoring 35 a game?

And remember when everyone was expecting Carlos Arroyo to become the next top point guard after he led Puerto Rico to the blowout win over the US in the '04 Olympics?

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

And remember when everyone was expecting Carlos Arroyo to become the next top point guard after he led Puerto Rico to the blowout win over the US in the '04 Olympics?

Who was expecting that? He wasn't even drafted.

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Who was expecting that? He wasn't even drafted.

He'd already been in the league for 3 years at that point. That was when everyone was lamenting the death of the American point guard and saying that guys like Arroyo were the future of the position in the NBA. Oops.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

He'd already been in the league for 3 years at that point. That was when everyone was lamenting the death of the American point guard and saying that guys like Arroyo were the future of the position in the NBA. Oops.

Maybe there were just lamenting the death of AI's version of the american point guard? I dont know anyone who took anything out of that loss other than the US had to do a better job of putting a team together and that Larry Brown was poor selection to coach that team.