Kwame Brown rookie scouting report
Donkeydode
1. Kwame Brown (6-11 240 lbs.) Glynn Academy (HS)
Positives: The most gifted player in the draft, Brown is a great
athlete with exceptional basketball skills. He can handle the ball
like a guard and has a good-looking stroke from 15 to 17 feet. Brown
also has good floor vision and passes extremely well. Brown is
currently at his best when he faces up and takes people off the
dribble using an excellent crossover dribble. Defensively, Brown is a
devastating shotblocker with superb leaping ability, timing and reach.
Because of his combination of size, strength and skill, Brown is often
compared to Chris Webber and Kevin Garnett. At this point, Brown has a
much more NBA-ready physique than Garnett had coming out of high
school.
Negatives: Unfortunately, Brown does not enjoy posting up offensively
and takes far too many three-pointers. Despite Garnett-level skills,
Brown has yet to demonstrate the burning competitiveness that Garnett
exhibited at the same stage of development.
Prognosis: Perhaps the best way to describe Kwame Brown is to say that
he has the frame and physical skills of an Antonio McDyess and the
basketball skills of a young Danny Manning. Brown could develop into a
potential franchise player if he works hard on his game. Peak
Projection: 22 ppg 10 rpg 4 apg 2.5 bpg
...wow. Takes too many 3 point shots? Exceptional basketball skills,
excellent crossover dribble... Is this for real?
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"Donkeydode" <neth...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Goes to show how much things can change and -- despite his obvious
limitations in the NBA game -- how freakishly good these players are. I've
read many times that the shot and handles of even most big NBA scrubs --
like Kwame -- are light years beyond good amateur players, i.e. your typical
YMCA superstar or HS varsity starter.
Kwame sounds like he's like so many other players who excel at the HS level
because he *is* so freakishly tall, quick, and strong... I mean, even
though he's been sucking as an NBA player, he still is taller, quicker, and
stronger than the average NBA player -- imagine how off the charts he must
have been compared to the average HS player!
A guy like him could've shot a 15-17 footer anytime he wanted... who are
you going to have guard him? A 6' 7" center, who would be big by HS
standards but tiny compared to him... he just shoots over him, and the HS
center is likely one of the slowest guys on the team so you can imagine him
trying to keep up with Kwame.
The disparity of skill level hid the now-obvious flaws in his game, most of
which have to do with his awful hands.
This is a great example for why scouting is an inexact science and why it is
so valuable, esp these days with the inability to just outbid other teams is
so limited.
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Jeff Mayner
> "Donkeydode" <neth...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> from: foulshots.com (2001)
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Just shows how much he has regressed and doesn't take the game seriously.
He's had the opportunity of a lifetime to work and grow with the help of
some of the best in the business. I mean, come on, Kareem has nothing to
teach him? What kind of bullshit is that? Too bad he's taken the money and
run. He's pretty much shit in the fans faces and sold-out to the money god.
Kwame sucks, pure and simple. He doesn't give a shit and he is not going to
learn.
Ship him out for a box of saltines and cheeze-whizz and I'll be happy. I
don't care what the Lakers get for him. I want him gone.
b...@kake.com
kwame needs to masturbate more so he nows how to handle balls. fucker
can't even catch a cold. bring in chris webber
Donkeydode
> "Donkeydode" <netha...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Great post.