Time to put Tyler Zeller in the starting lineup?

[Ohio]

No reason to. What's wrong with bringing him off the bench, but letting him finish games? Plenty of teams do that sorta thing.

 

[Gimme Some Mo]

Makes sense to me. It would open up the floor a little more for our guards. It would allow Thompson to be what he really is.... a bench player. It could help TT a lot to play against second team bigs. It'd also allow Andy to take less of a beating playing against smaller guys.

 

[Pioneer10]

I don't know why people aren't more excited about Zeller. He's was ranked as a lottery pick by most folks for the last two drafts but got hit by the senior year brush-off by teams on draft night.

He may not have star potential but the dude can play (hits jumpers, nice touch with both hands, can post up, high basketball IQ, decent athlete). As I've said before I wouldn't be surprised if he has a better career then either TT or Jonas as the years go by.

 

[abraxas]

I don't know why people aren't more excited about Zeller. He's was ranked as a lottery pick by most folks for the last two drafts but got hit by the senior year brush-off by teams on draft night.

People fall in love with potential, whether that's fans of GMs. I was watching the Cavs game with the Blazers announcers last night (who were horrible) but they talked about the Blazers having Zeller and Leonard going head to head in pre-draft tryouts in Portland and Leonard got the best of Zeller. It got me thinking about the rationale of choosing players based on measurements, one on ones, etc., as compared to the old days where they used to just watch players and evaluate how they actually played. Anyone who watches college ball knew that Zeller could play. Leonard on the other hand, not so sure.

I'm psyched about the Zeller pick, though I do wonder why we had to give up all 3 picks for him. That still seems a bit steep for me. But oh well.

 

[Tornicade]

Yeah we should of kept one of those picks and drafted Kevin Jones then we could of had 3 picks to cut instead of zero

 

[Jack Brickman]

I'm psyched about the Zeller pick, though I do wonder why we had to give up all 3 picks for him. That still seems a bit steep for me. But oh well.

I look at it as giving up two picks. We gave up two second-rounders to move up from 24 to 17.

 

[tn819]

I got serious Z flashbacks with him hitting the long J's and the facemask.

 

[kidduck]

He could use some more muscle in his upper body and legs.

Kid is looking like a 25+ minute player who could be an asset down the stretch of tight games.

He just needs the minutes and to play out the mistakes.

 

[Huber.]

People fall in love with potential, whether that's fans of GMs. I was watching the Cavs game with the Blazers announcers last night (who were horrible) but they talked about the Blazers having Zeller and Leonard going head to head in pre-draft tryouts in Portland and Leonard got the best of Zeller. It got me thinking about the rationale of choosing players based on measurements, one on ones, etc., as compared to the old days where they used to just watch players and evaluate how they actually played. Anyone who watches college ball knew that Zeller could play. Leonard on the other hand, not so sure.

I'm psyched about the Zeller pick, though I do wonder why we had to give up all 3 picks for him. That still seems a bit steep for me. But oh well.

Those two second round picks would just be players we would have sent to the D-League. This team is young enough and we needed to get rid of those.