Derrick Williams: Time to Move On?

[younggunsmn]

If we could have Wes Matthews for Derrick Williams Kahn would do it and run away giggling like a little girl.
Aint going to happen.

And yes there is still a ton of bad blood with Portland. They tried to F Batum financially by limiting his PT/shots the year before and we helped him call them on it. Damn he would look great here right now.

[southern wolf]

If we could have Wes Matthews for Derrick Williams Kahn would do it and run away giggling like a little girl.
Aint going to happen.

And yes there is still a ton of bad blood with Portland. They tried to F Batum financially by limiting his PT/shots the year before and we helped him call them on it. Damn he would look great here right now.

I agree Portland wouldn't trade Matthews for Williams, but I'm not too upset we missed out on Batum. Partly because of the cash we would have had to pay him and partly because of AK's great play.

[cpfsf]

Derrick Williams for Wes Matthews?

Matthews is 2 way SG who can shoot and plays a great floor game.

Williams gives the rebuilding Blazers a bench 3/4 that can actually score, unlike the rest of their bench, and is a young prospect compared to the established but peaked player Matthews is.

Edit: you think there's still bad blood regarding Portland and the Wolves? Or is it bygones be bygones?

if there is bad blood, it's because the wolves are still mad about webster affair while the blazers are are mad with the contract offered to batum.

this is speculation, but the blazers might be annoyed with the timberwolves after they offered contracts to brandon roy, tom penn, and bill bayno.

i'd rank it as being unlikely

[Klomp]

“@APkrawczynski: I'll say this for Derrick Williams: he's handled this situation about 100 times more professionally than most high draft picks would.�

“@APkrawczynski: Derrick Williams: "I just have to do with what I have. If I get 10 minutes, I get 10 minutes and I just try and do what I can with that."�

[Calinks]

Happy someone has brought this up. A lot of number two's wouldn't act like this. Look at Royce White, I know he g=has other issues but he is vocal as hell.If this was happening to people in 2k12, they would be cussing 2K and their virtual coach out lol.

[WesJ4]

One thing Williams needs to work on is a pump fake. I think he's a 4 and only a 4. He's quicker than most PF in the league and needs to work on taking advantage of that. A good pump fake and a good pullup midrange jumper would do wonders for solving his offensive woes IMO.

[Beezer]

One thing Williams needs to work on is a pump fake. I think he's a 4 and only a 4. He's quicker than most PF in the league and needs to work on taking advantage of that. A good pump fake and a good pullup midrange jumper would do wonders for solving his offensive woes IMO.

I agree. With his quickness, he could be deadly at the 4 with a good pump fake. Driving to the basket in general would help his offense.

[Tirion]

“@APkrawczynski: I'll say this for Derrick Williams: he's handled this situation about 100 times more professionally than most high draft picks would.�

“@APkrawczynski: Derrick Williams: "I just have to do with what I have. If I get 10 minutes, I get 10 minutes and I just try and do what I can with that."�

Darko was quiet, so was Thabeet.

Guys like Royce White are exception, not the norm.

The unwritten rule of the NBA is that if you are a rookie or a 2/3d year player, you need to STFU. Only vets are allowed to complain publically.

[southern wolf]

“@APkrawczynski: I'll say this for Derrick Williams: he's handled this situation about 100 times more professionally than most high draft picks would.�

“@APkrawczynski: Derrick Williams: "I just have to do with what I have. If I get 10 minutes, I get 10 minutes and I just try and do what I can with that."�

We've drafted plenty of nice guys who haven't cut it. I would love nothing more than for him to transform into our SF of the future, but it ain't going to happen.

[the_bruce]

Everyone is so down on dwill. He's actually played fairly well recently. His defense is much improved this season. He can get to the line, is shooting the 3 well, and is rebounding.

He needs to work on his ft shooting, avoid the turnovers, finishing in traffic in the 3-9 foot range, and as mentioned earlier a pump fake would do his game a world of good.

I still think he can transition to the 3 because he has a 3's game offensively. I believe he can guard most 3's too. He's clearly a stretch 4 in MNs offensive scheme.

[Worm Guts]

“@APkrawczynski: I'll say this for Derrick Williams: he's handled this situation about 100 times more professionally than most high draft picks would.�

“@APkrawczynski: Derrick Williams: "I just have to do with what I have. If I get 10 minutes, I get 10 minutes and I just try and do what I can with that."�

We've drafted plenty of nice guys who haven't cut it. I would love nothing more than for him to transform into our SF of the future, but it ain't going to happen.

He'd have trade value if he would even start playing well as a backup PF, but can't even seem to do that.

I think he could be a player that gets to the line alot if he could learn to finish on his drives. I don't think the refs give him the benefit of the doubt because they feel like he's taking a shot he can't make. If he got the same call Love gets, he'd live at the line.

[FinnTheHuman]

He'd have trade value if he would even start playing well as a backup PF, but can't even seem to do that.

I think he could be a player that gets to the line alot if he could learn to finish on his drives. I don't think the refs give him the benefit of the doubt because they feel like he's taking a shot he can't make. If he got the same call Love gets, he'd live at the line.

I think that it's because he goes for bad drives. He is so afraid he won't prove himself worthy that he actually wants to do something big with the ball almost every time he gets it. He is not letting offensive game come to him. With his limited minutes, he's always trying to do something impossible in order to prove himself and get bigger minutes, and that just doesn't work.

And it's not the 1st time it happens to a top pick. It's just that in most of those cases rookies didn't have players like Love and AK playing starters on their positions, and players like Dante and Howard on the bench, so they had more space for mistakes.

[Worm Guts]

I've seen a quite few times where he's taken reasonable drives and just flubbed the shot. There's also been times I thought a foul could have been called but there's no whistle. I suppose though when you continually drive and come up empty it becomes a bad decision to drive at all.

[FinnTheHuman]

I've seen a quite few times where he's taken reasonable drives and just flubbed the shot. There's also been times I thought a foul could have been called but there's no whistle. I suppose though when you continually drive and come up empty it becomes a bad decision to drive at all.

I agree with you there. There are a lot of factors that make a drive great: a good shooting and passing reputation, speed, explosiveness, strength, the ability to take a good shot from the drive, a good court vision, a good pump fake, a good NBA reputation for the refs. DWill still doesn't have many of those, but all those he doesn't have can be gained.

[Worm Guts]

He was great at getting to the line in college, so maybe there's some hope there. It's really the only thing I have hope for Williams to do at a high NBA level.