03-30-2021, 10:48 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-30-2021, 10:48 AM by KillerLeft.)
(03-30-2021, 10:32 AM)HanspardShowerVoice Wrote: I think it represents the fact that they were uncommonly old when the came into the NBA as rookies. Maxi was a 26 year old rookie. DoDo was 23 years old after playing 4 years of college + 1 year sitting out from a transfer.
Right. My comment wasn't strictly about age, though "young" probably is best used that way, so that's on me. My comment wasn't as much about age as it was about experience.
I might be crazy, and even if I'm not, one/both of Kleber/DFS might be bad examples of this, but...both of those guys seem like they didn't get the kind of opportunities when they were young that the AAU guys did (for example).
What if those four years of college were the first opportunity DFS had at GOOD training? What kind of track through European basketball did Kleber take? One of our Euro guys, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I just have the feeling that he didn't get the same ride that a guy like Melli got. I think the Mavs brought him here raw as cookie dough.
All I'm saying is that with those two guys, I see improvement year-to-year, with room for more. I just don't feel like they're finished products quite yet.