Draft Workouts, Day 2 Thread

[slinslin]

Draft Workouts, Day 2
The Phoenix Suns held their second pre-draft workout at Amercia West Arena on Tuesday, taking a look at Mississippi State forward Mario Austin, North Dakota forward Jerome Beasley, forward/center Zarko Cabarkapa of Yugoslavia and Notre Dame point guard Chris Tomas. Log on to Suns.com later this afternoon for a full report.

http://www.nba.com/suns/news/draft03_qa_austin.html

 

[arthurracoon]

http://www.nba.com/suns/news/draft03_qa_beasley.html

http://www.nba.com/suns/news/draft03_qa_thomas.html

http://www.nba.com/suns/news/draft03_qa_cabarkap.html

 

[fordronken]

Zarko does seem intriguing...

 

[Chaplin]

Originally posted by fordronken
Zarko does seem intriguing...

I was just going to say the same thing. It's nice that we could bring him in so early.

 

[sunsfn]

Zarko just turned 22 this month. He is young and already has some good experience against very good players.
This guy should be able to help a team quicker than a lot of the players in the draft.

I also like his size of 6' 11" ..........to probably play three positions.

 

[sunsfn]

Beasley, Austin, & Smith are rated in the 2nd round by most mock drafts.

Now I know that does not mean they will go in the 2nd round, they could go in the first but, maybe the suns are looking at them and if they like one of them and think they could get them in the 2nd they may be thinking of moving down and pick up a 2nd round pick.

This may be a draft to do that.

Zarko at this time is in the 25th place in NBA draft.

Just a thought.............

 

[slinslin]

Originally posted by sunsfn
Zarko just turned 22 this month. He is young and already has some good experience against very good players.
This guy should be able to help a team quicker than a lot of the players in the draft.

I also like his size of 6' 11" ..........to probably play three positions.

Is that why this guy can't even rack up good stats in the yugoslavian league?

Here are his stats
11.6ppg 4.7rpg 1apg 0.4spg 0.6bpg 2.2topg 47%FG 24%3pt(!!!) 66%FT%(!!!)

His shooting percentage actually went down 10% this season as his FGA went up. So it's pretty ironic that people on various Suns messageboards claim that ''Oh I know he is a bad rebounder and sucky defender but he is big and a legimate 3pt thread'' when this guy shoots a bad percentage from the EUROPEAN 3pt-line.

Obviously he can't speak english either.

I like Chris Thomas much more than any of the prospects we worked out so far and his interview was pretty good.

 

[thegrahamcrackr]

Originally posted by sunsfn
Beasley, Austin, & Smith are rated in the 2nd round by most mock drafts.

Now I know that does not mean they will go in the 2nd round, they could go in the first but, maybe the suns are looking at them and if they like one of them and think they could get them in the 2nd they may be thinking of moving down and pick up a 2nd round pick.

This may be a draft to do that.

Zarko at this time is in the 25th place in NBA draft.

Just a thought.............

I remember a couple weeks ago whgen I said we should trade down for 2 second rounders and everyone was calling for my body to be hung in town square

 

[thegrahamcrackr]

I like how Zarko wants to eventually become

Dirk, Garnett or robert horry.....just a little fall off at the end there

 

[JCSunsfan]

Originally posted by sunsfn
Zarko just turned 22 this month. He is young and already has some good experience against very good players.
This guy should be able to help a team quicker than a lot of the players in the draft.

I also like his size of 6' 11" ..........to probably play three positions.

Its so hard evaluating talent because of how other players who seem similar cloud your judgement. I look at this guy and I think "Langhi." I am sure others look at him and think "Nowitski."

He's most likely neither one.

 

[Joe Mama]

Originally posted by JCSunsfan
Its so hard evaluating talent because of how other players who seem similar cloud your judgement. I look at this guy and I think "Langhi." I am sure others look at him and think "Nowitski."

He's most likely neither one.

I was thinking the same thing. If the Phoenix Suns draft a European player for the sake of drafting a European player I'll be upset. I don't think they will.

Joe Mama

 

[arthurracoon]

Bryan Colangalo said today on AM 1060 on the from the bleachers show that he is not getting too much into the euro craze

 

[Chaplin]

Originally posted by arthurracoon
Bryan Colangalo said today on AM 1060 on the from the bleachers show that he is not getting too much into the euro craze

David West, come on down!

Or the worst: Nick Collison, come on down!

 

[Joe Mama]

Originally posted by arthurracoon
Bryan Colangalo said today on AM 1060 on the from the bleachers show that he is not getting too much into the euro craze

That's good. Did he say anything else that was interesting?

Joe

 

[Chaplin]

What's funny, is on nbadraft.net's draft board, out of the 11 picks from #18 to #29, there are only 4 American players on the list, the rest are all Europeans...

I wonder, if by the time we are at #17, all the best players will actually BE European...