orlando predraft camp – Rush The Court

06.09.08 Fast Breaks

rtmsf — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:24:02 +0000

Coming out of another slow weekend on the news front…

This NY Times story about Bol Kong, a Sudanese expatriate and college basketball player in British Columbia who has lived in Canada since age 7, shows once again the ridiculous of some of our leaders’ anti-terror measures. Following up on the Orlando Predraft Camp, DraftExpress gives their wrap-up takes here and also takes a really interesting look at some historical tidbits of the predraft measurements (yes, Shaq was always a beast). Chad Ford has his updated draft list – OJ Mayo is movin’ on up (maybe because of Lebron’s agent?)… Gary Parrish writes something [...]

DJ Augustin Has Little Wee Arms

rtmsf — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:59:53 +0000

Apologies in advance for the small text on the table below. You can see the entire cache of numbers here on a document we saved at Google Docs (fully sortable). Alternatively, check the list (also sortable) over at DraftExpress, who we owe our eternal thanks to for providing these initial numbers.

So what we’ve done here is color code highlight the best five (light green) and worst five (beige) performances in each category. For basketball purposes, we’re assuming that height, weight and length are good things, body fat is a bad thing, and athletic ability in terms of vertical jump, agility and sprint [...]

Orlando Pre-Draft Camp Day 1

rtmsf — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:43:48 +0000

This week (Tues-Fri) is the all-important Orlando Pre-Draft Camp, the place where marginal second-round picks can become late first-rounders overnight, and all the other garbage players who weren’t going to get drafted anyway can prove their unworthiness in front of a collection of NBA types in attendance. Still, there’s always at least a handful of players who benefit from this event – last year Jared Dudley and Daequan Cook probably wouldn’t have gone in the first round but for strong showings, and Ramon Sessions, Stephane Lasme and Demetris Nichols may not have been drafted at all. Not [...]

05.12.08 Fast Breaks

rtmsf — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:08:38 +0000

Your weekend news and notes…

OJ, OJ, OJ, OJ, OJ… In the wake of the Kelvin Sanctions fiasco, Indiana has responded to the five major NCAA allegations and believes that it has already punished flagellated itself enough. Since IU is painting Sampson as the fall guy, he felt the need to defend himself in a separate letter to the NCAA. The NCAA is proposing a change to the college goaltending rule to make it mesh with the NBA version – a ball that hits the backboard may no longer be blocked whether it is moving in an upward or downward motion. Our biggest pet peeve, the lack [...]