Summer League roster set

by jorga on Jul 9, 2008 5:14 PM PDT

Thanks to Casey

88 Nicolas Batum F/G 6-8 190 R 12/14/88 France

4 Jerryd Bayless G 6-3 200 R 8/20/88 Arizona

40 Josh Davis F 6-8 235 3 8/10/80 Wyoming

0 Chris Ellis F 6-9 280 R 3/5/84 Wake Forest

18 Morris Finley G 5-11 175 R 8/2/81Alabama-Birmingham

42 Eddy Fobbs C 6-11 240 R 9/17/80 Sam Houston St.

51 Steven Hill C 7-0 245 R 11/14/85 Arkansas

28 Petteri Koponen G 6-4 195 R 4/13/88 Finland

30 David Lucas F 6-8 246 R 5/14/82 OregonSt.

50 Aleks Maric F 6-11 275 R 10/22/84 Nebraska

6 J.R. Pinnock G 6-5 207 R 12/11/83 George Washington

21 Bernard Robinson G/F 6-6 2253 12/26/80 Michigan

31 Brandon Robinson F 6-8 215 R 4/15/81 Auburn

17 Jon Stefansson G 6-5 200 R 9/21/82 Iceland

Nice to see Chris Ellis back. I hope he gets a contract with someone this year. JR Pinnock is a familiar name - has he been at Summer League before?

David Lucas? Related to Mo?

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thanks jorga

i think this lineup is pretty good, too bad fernandez isnt on their buts good i think chris ellis has a monster vertical cant wait to see them play

Oden...Aldridge...Roy.....THE REAL BIG THREE

by CroRupt on Jul 9, 2008 5:23 PM PDT 0 recs

David Lucas

is Maurice’s son. David played for the Beavs a couple years back.

Witty Unpredictable Talent and Natural Game

by iDea on Jul 9, 2008 5:25 PM PDT 0 recs

he was their best player

nice to see a former Beav get some burn

Woof

by Charles Barkley McLovin on Jul 9, 2008 6:58 PM PDT up 0 recs

I actually saw him play a couple times...

.............................. decent college player, not NBA caliber.

"You don't live by the jumpshot, you die by the jumpshot." ---Charles Barkley, 2/7/08

by timbo on Jul 9, 2008 7:29 PM PDT up 0 recs

I was a freshan at OSU during his senior year

He was a very good college player and I loved watching him play. I actually saw him at a Blazer game last year wearing a white Maurice Lucas throwback, it was classic.

He had a Z-Bo-esque game down low and was pretty efficient. But Channing Frye always killed him defensively. Lucas’ moves were methodical and Frye was quick and athletic enough to contest everything he put up.

I’m excited to see him play again. I wonder how much he’s been training?

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A new point guard is that sexy girl.
Trade Machine's their pornography,
For one they'll give away the world.

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by KobeStoppa on Jul 10, 2008 1:39 AM PDT up 0 recs

Last I heard about Lucas

was that he was playing out in Europe, but that was from a text message a friend sent so I have no clue how accurate that is

by tingeyga on Jul 10, 2008 7:18 AM PDT up 0 recs

Brainfart

My roommate, known here as Brainfart (by very few people), bought a Passat from David Lucas a year ago. Lucas got him for several thousand for more than its worth! Boomshakalaka!

by MavetheGreat on Jul 10, 2008 2:54 PM PDT up 0 recs

joke

Mr Lucas actually was a very fair partner in that deal.

by MavetheGreat on Jul 10, 2008 2:55 PM PDT up 0 recs

Awesome!

It’s also too bad they decided at the last minute to not put Diogu on there, as there was previously talk of him “playing in a few of them”. I would have liked to have scouted him as well.

by MGNNoah on Jul 9, 2008 5:32 PM PDT 0 recs

Rumor is

Rumor is that Diogu tweaked his knee and that is why he isn’t playing now.

by danielfarrell on Jul 9, 2008 5:40 PM PDT up 0 recs

One more injury?

This is his last chance to stay healthy one would think.

Aldridge said. "We feel like we can beat any team. We feel like we can beat the Spurs, Suns, Lakers, Mavericks, whoever any night right now, and we'll still be here when those teams get old and their guys retire. We're going to be here for a long time."

by lee3022 on Jul 12, 2008 12:07 PM PDT up 0 recs

the big guns are missing...

where are rudy and G.O.?

by danevan on Jul 9, 2008 5:48 PM PDT 0 recs

Rehab and olympics

Oden is still rehabbing and they are holding him out. Rudy is with the Spanish national team getting ready for the olympics.

by danielfarrell on Jul 9, 2008 6:07 PM PDT up 0 recs

Actually

That’s a half truth.

Greg has been able to play for some time now but the blazers are being overly cautious and don’t want him coming back until the preseason.

Makes sense to me. There’s no urgency and the number one issue with knee surgeries are all those people who come back too soon (O’neal, Arenas, and so on).

Ford: Bill, you're claiming victory already? Have you had a "Mission Accomplished" banner printed yet?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2008/columns/story?page=DraftDebate-080624

by ratbastird on Jul 10, 2008 8:36 AM PDT up 0 recs

Too bad

Olympics? What a waste. Rudy could really use the in-depth training NBA Summer Camp brings.

by MavetheGreat on Jul 10, 2008 2:52 PM PDT up 0 recs

Rudy will bring his

gold medal to training camp!

'77

by LaoTzu on Jul 10, 2008 6:19 PM PDT up 0 recs

Silver

by lee3022 on Jul 12, 2008 12:08 PM PDT up 1 recs

+1

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by tominhawaii on Jul 12, 2008 1:22 PM PDT up 0 recs

What happended to Joel Freeland?

I thought he would be playing again.

by JasonT on Jul 9, 2008 6:09 PM PDT 0 recs

Need permission

There is still a possibility he’ll play from what I read elsewhere. The blazers need to get permission from his current team for that to happen and it hasn’t been worked out yet.

by danielfarrell on Jul 9, 2008 6:30 PM PDT up 0 recs

Interesting

I thought I read somewhere that the blazers didn’t need permission. I guess the person stating that was incorrect?

Ford: Bill, you're claiming victory already? Have you had a "Mission Accomplished" banner printed yet?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2008/columns/story?page=DraftDebate-080624

by ratbastird on Jul 10, 2008 8:38 AM PDT up 0 recs

They didn't last year

I’m not sure of the specifics but his contract status seems to be different this year.

by danielfarrell on Jul 10, 2008 8:43 AM PDT up 0 recs

His Spainish team hates him

and won’t give him permission to play.

Boomshakalaka

by jksnake99 on Jul 9, 2008 6:31 PM PDT up 0 recs

Why does ESPN

have Joel Freeland on their ‘08 draft site? -
“Draft Projection: Late first to early second

Similarities: David Lee”

Found something about him on his team’s official site. The best I could translate was that he is going to play for Great Britain in the Eurobasket tournament Sept. 7-20, 2009.

"We will do nice things!" - Rudy, 07/01/08

by jorga on Jul 9, 2008 7:23 PM PDT up 0 recs

I keep finding things

He is on the British national team along with Luol Deng and Ben Gordon “seeking to qualify for the 2009 European Championships. ” This is what the Spanish site was referring to. Would Deng and Gordon really play for them? The coach did say he was counting on his core of European-based players. Since the tourney begins in Sept it would be in direct conflict with the NBA.

“Britain missed out on the qualifying competition for the 2008 Olympic basketball tournament, having restarted the national team programme too late.”

"We will do nice things!" - Rudy, 07/01/08

by jorga on Jul 9, 2008 7:45 PM PDT up 0 recs

Bad organization

"Lenny Suckerpunch Never bet on me" - Elizabeth "The Lizzard" Lowblow

by Lizzy Lowblow on Jul 9, 2008 7:47 PM PDT up 0 recs

Dumb English

should have let the Scots organise it.

Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo

by jscot on Jul 10, 2008 4:07 AM PDT up 0 recs

I can only hope they learn from this FUBAR

"Lenny Suckerpunch Never bet on me" - Elizabeth "The Lizzard" Lowblow

by Lizzy Lowblow on Jul 10, 2008 6:41 AM PDT up 0 recs

They're English

Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo

by jscot on Jul 10, 2008 11:15 AM PDT up 0 recs

The Olympic games 2012 are in London

Wouldn’t you want to qualify with your team for that spectacle at home if you had a British passport? In order to get there, a good first step would be to qualify for the European championships (EuroBasket), since zero to hero is a little hard to do ;-)

Coach, I promise I wasn't running hard ...

by Norsktroll on Jul 10, 2008 7:17 AM PDT up 0 recs

Doesn't the hosting nation of the Olympics get a free pass

into the games? Thus needing to qualify for the Brits is not needed

by tingeyga on Jul 10, 2008 7:20 AM PDT up 0 recs

The Brits

will need free passes, free shots, and free rebounds if they want to win anything.

Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo

by jscot on Jul 10, 2008 11:17 AM PDT up 0 recs

Can the UK field a team?

No, not Kentucky. The United Kingdom. Then besides the Scots, they get Steve Nash from Canada, and all that major Australian talent.

'77

by LaoTzu on Jul 10, 2008 6:22 PM PDT up 0 recs

Nope

Canada & Aussies are part of the Commonwealth, not the UK. Doesn’t count.

Can they field a team? Yes. The problem is, basketball is usually played on a court, not on a field. No one seems to have explained this to some of them….

Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo

by jscot on Jul 11, 2008 2:48 AM PDT up 0 recs

oh bollocks!

by Odynasty on Jul 10, 2008 11:18 AM PDT up 0 recs

basketball in england

as an oregonian who lived in england for the past ten years, i can tell you this.. nobody gives a crap about basketball. not in schools, not their laughable pro league. it just isn’t in their consciousness AT ALL. behind soccer, formula one, superbikes, rugby, cricket, darts, billiards (i’m not kidding). the fact they have a team at all is a minor miracle. perhaps their automatic bid to the 2012 olympics, with the participation of gordon and deng will raise bball’s profile, but i seriously doubt it.

by blazersunited on Jul 12, 2008 6:57 PM PDT up 0 recs

To get five guys

they have to import people like Gordon and Deng.

You forgot golf, cycling, rowing, tennis, and tiddleywinks.

And field hockey.

And up here, there’s curling.

Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo

by jscot on Jul 14, 2008 6:31 AM PDT up 0 recs

Pinnock

Answering my own question. Pinnock was in training camp last fall and was the 3rd to last player waived. Ellis and Brent Petway were the last to go.

"We will do nice things!" - Rudy, 07/01/08

by jorga on Jul 9, 2008 6:22 PM PDT 0 recs

Maric

is a good big man- did well in the big 12.

Josh Davis is from Salem if I recall correctly- He was the star of the Wyoming team that knocked out Dan Dickau’s Gonzaga squad in the NCAA tournament one year (one of the first times Gonzaga got Gonzaga’d).

Boomshakalaka

by jksnake99 on Jul 9, 2008 6:33 PM PDT 0 recs

Salem Academy's own

http://www.nba.com/playerfile/josh_davis/index.html

by TallTimber on Jul 9, 2008 7:31 PM PDT up 0 recs

obviously

the three guys we all want to watch here are Bayless, Batum, and PetKo.

Chris Ellis is like on his 3rd or 4th summer league roster with us. We must pay better than the other teams for this—you know he has to know he has no shot of landing on OUR roster.

by douglast on Jul 9, 2008 7:32 PM PDT 0 recs

It seems that some european scouts will be at Las Vegas.

Perhaps he´s looking for a future somewhere.

The Midnight Rambler

by amlmart1 on Jul 9, 2008 10:12 PM PDT up 0 recs

I liked watching Ellis last year

He leaves it all out on the floor.

President of the Petteri Koponen fan club.

by Sabonis4Ever on Jul 9, 2008 10:28 PM PDT up 0 recs

him and Zendon Hamilton

Zendon and Stefano Mancinelli were our MVPs last summer ;)

I wish Zendon was playing for us again so I could use my favorite line “Zend it in.” Brilliant, I know. I’ll be here all season.

Boomshakalaka

by jksnake99 on Jul 9, 2008 11:54 PM PDT up 0 recs

I like your line

but I’m a homer.

Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo

by jscot on Jul 10, 2008 4:08 AM PDT up 0 recs

I loved that guy

I think he has talent and it’s too bad he can’t break into the NBA.

Ford: Bill, you're claiming victory already? Have you had a "Mission Accomplished" banner printed yet?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2008/columns/story?page=DraftDebate-080624

by ratbastird on Jul 10, 2008 8:41 AM PDT up 0 recs

he did have an NBA career

he’s just old.

Boomshakalaka

by jksnake99 on Jul 10, 2008 11:40 AM PDT up 0 recs

I think they are all looking for a future

I read that about the scouts from Gran Canaria going to Orlando and Las Vegas. With Brandon Jennings going straight to Europe the floodgates may open and we’ll see many players skip college altogether, especially with starting salaries so much higher than the NBA.

"We will do nice things!" - Rudy, 07/01/08

by jorga on Jul 10, 2008 6:19 AM PDT up 0 recs

hmmm

I suspect that player wages, the salary cap, and a few other things will all be going up to compensate.

Ford: Bill, you're claiming victory already? Have you had a "Mission Accomplished" banner printed yet?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2008/columns/story?page=DraftDebate-080624

by ratbastird on Jul 10, 2008 8:43 AM PDT up 0 recs

I'm crying inside

Joel Freeland=Stud

by hightide on Jul 10, 2008 2:57 AM PDT 0 recs

Ellis, Lucas

Brian Hendrickson says that Ellis played in the D-League last season and Lucas “just finished up a season with the International Basketball League’s Portland Chinooks, with whom he averaged 37.0 points per game.” No D in the IBL or is he that good???

"We will do nice things!" - Rudy, 07/01/08

by jorga on Jul 10, 2008 6:43 AM PDT 0 recs

There are Portland Chinooks?

Really? Why do we never hear from them? Maybe because they are not that good, like the IBL.

Coach, I promise I wasn't running hard ...

by Norsktroll on Jul 10, 2008 7:20 AM PDT up 0 recs

Teams average 126 PPG in the IBL. They inbound immediately, faster...

'77

by LaoTzu on Jul 10, 2008 6:25 PM PDT up 0 recs

Broadcast

Will these summer league games be broadcast on the internet? I’d like to see what Bayless has.

by torsoheap on Jul 10, 2008 11:47 AM PDT 0 recs

They were last year.

Let’s hope for the same. I’m sure when the time comes someone here will fix up a link.
Not too terribly entertaining, but how often do you get to see an Icelander hoop it up against future NBA stars?

by ChadFord on Jul 10, 2008 4:37 PM PDT up 0 recs

NBA.COM

offers webcasts of all the games. They’re showing games from Orlando this week.

"We will do nice things!" - Rudy, 07/01/08

by jorga on Jul 10, 2008 5:40 PM PDT up 0 recs

last year

the NBA blocked out webcasts of your local team though. That was a great marketing move there Mr. Stern.

Hopefully they are smarter this time around. If not, people here will be posting the pirated feeds. It worked out pretty good last year.

Rule #1 of nitpicking is to get it right.

by douglast on Jul 11, 2008 9:34 AM PDT up 0 recs

They didn't block Summer League games

just regular season.

"We will do nice things!" - Rudy, 07/01/08

by jorga on Jul 11, 2008 9:37 AM PDT up 0 recs

someone explain this to me.

http://www.nba.com/summerleague2008/team/index.jsp?team=blazers

On the NBA.com summerleague site, JB isn’t listed on the roster. Was there a last minute change of heart or was it because this roster was possibly made up before he was signed?

by danevan on Jul 11, 2008 10:23 AM PDT 0 recs