Christian Eyenga

[Roger Murdock]

To be honest as long as this guy can ever contribute for our team, be it next year, or 5 years from now we got great value for the 30th pick.

Anybody who thinks we are going to draft a player at 30 in one of the weakest drafts ever that is going to help us win a title next year is much more (Please Use More Appropriate Word) than Ferry for drafting whoever the hell this guy is we got.

[Canomad]

Should of taken Blair here and still Greene at 46...Blair falling to 30 was a sign from god and Ferry spit on the lords face...

i was watching the david stern come to the podium and i was like hell yeah blair is gonna be a cav...............i was wrong. blair and green would have been an A+ draft.

[Baseline Runner]

I don't see this as being such a terrible draft. There will be a lot of players from top to bottom that will have long careers and be solid contributors and there could be a number of steals as well in the deep first and second round. I also think Blake Griffin could be a superstar. The league is becoming weak in power forwards and centers and he could be a 25/13 player. This draft pick is perplexing but perhaps Ferry has the inside scoop on this guy.

[InBoobieWeTrust]

DeJuan Blair wouldn't have gotten any PT for us. We're going to sign a PF in free agency and likely bring AV back. Just no time for Blair here.

[magee]

Dude. Eyenga is gonna be a STUD if he is coached properly and can learn the game properly. Wow. Great pick. He'll be in Cleveland in two-three years. i hope he plays some Summer League this year. He looks a lot like Martell Webster when he shoots.

[Benedict_Boozer]

Dude. Eyenga is gonna be a STUD if he is coached properly and can learn the game properly. Wow. Great pick. He'll be in Cleveland in two-three years. i hope he plays some Summer League this year. He looks a lot like Martell Webster when he shoots.

Where did you see him play?

[magee]

I just saw a few different highlights of him on youtube, not the ones they showed on the NBA Draft. Obviously take it with a grain of salt, but he took angles that were horribly given to him very well and is an athlete and a half. His jumper looked pretty nice. I've seen a lot of basketball and I've definitely said a few things that failed to hold up (Mohammad Saer Sene being good) but I liked what I saw from all the highlights that have been put up. He'll look weak in the SL as far as IQ goes, but the kid will be nice in a couple years.

[Wisedude42]

I thought the Cavs should have drafted Dajuan Summers and Jermaine Taylor.
I, like everyone else, had no info on C. Eyenga. We will wait and see but the kid is a pure athlete and his B-ball skills look good also. So I will root for him to make it. But he is really two yrs away.

Danny Green was an absolute luck-out steal at the 46th pick. He's a 2-guard who can play SF when going small or matching up against teams that go small at SF. At 6'6", he can guard the big guards in the league which is something the Cavs lacked. Green knows how to play defense where Sasha Pavlovic really had no clue and was too slow and got faked out easily.

Acquiring Emir Preldzic late in the 2nd round shocked me in a good way. It shows me that Chris Grant and co. really know talent and are actively seeking it out. This kid, in time, will be a big-time player for the Cavs. He is two years away.

The only thing I may have done different is take Summers instead of Ayenga but that may have changed the entire order of players selected afterward and Green may have been selected before the Cavs 46th pick. So I am very pleased with the draft as it played out. Big thumbs up.

[Wisedude42]

After watching 4 Cavs Summer games, Eyenga is definitely 2 years away. He needs to go back to Spain and work on his skill development in every area. He needs a personal skills development coach working all the time with him. There is alot of ability to work with.

Ball handling skills need major work.

Needs to play the 2-guard and not the small forward position since the 2-guard will be his NBA position.

Danny Ferry, Chris Grant and Lance Blanks (Larry, Curly and Moe) outsmarted themselves again by taking Eyenga when I posted here before the draft that they must take Dajuan Summers who can help right away and has great offensive talent to score which is what the Cavs need. Summers is lighting up the Summer League.

Since they didn't listen to the man who knows, they deserve to lose. Another major drafting mistake by Larry, Curly and Moe. They need to all go live in the Congo for this one.

[InBoobieWeTrust]

Good chance that the Cavs keep Eyenga here in the States.

I think you'll see him playing in Erie next year for sure, maybe even eating up the 15th spot here for a few weeks at a time if injuries happen.

Eyenga still doesn't know English, he's shown a marked improvement over the past week and a half though. Let's let the kid learn English and give him a year and see where he is next year.

And a guy who is "lighting up the summer league" means NOTHING. Adam Morrison is lighting up the summer league. The summer league means nothing. Summers cannot help right away. He's nowhere near being able to play in the NBA and his ceiling is relatively low.

[Wisedude42]

Watch how well Summers does with Detroit this year.

It's the wrong move to have Eyenga with the Cavs right now. If he has a future with the Cavs, you won't really know until you see how he develops over the next 2 yrs. If you sign him to a contract now and keep him here, you are wasting 2 yrs on his rookie contract plus you have to pay him and the Cavs are already in luxury tax area. So an equal amt of his annual wage must also be paid to the NBA. So you would be paying double to have him in the D League b/c he can't play right now.
Then you would only have 2yrs left on his rookie contact before he's a free agent. So you train him and if he pans out, other teams could steal him whlie the Cavs developed him. This is the absolute wrong thing to do. He must go back to Spain and get developed on someone else's nickel and time.

[eyejayem]

I think Ferry assumed he would stay overseas for a year or two because no one they wanted in the first rd was left so they took the best potential overseas where some teams are still not doing their homework. He stays overseas, Cavs keep cap. He plays for one of the best Euro league teams and can be brought over when the Cavs nucleus is intact(2010). He can learn english in the next few years and play in the NBDL to see where he is at. And then explode in the NBA if he becomes a starting two or at least a rotation player. How many players selected at 30 are still in the league. Not a lot but if this guy in 3 years would have been a top 10 pick Ferry is the only one kicking himself then but then we lost a future lottery pick. And the point is, as long as we have Lebron, it is unlikely we have another lottery pick for awhile. So yeah I agree with Ferry, swing for the fences, we just wont know if it counts for another couple of years.

[TomJoad]

I think Ferry assumed he would stay overseas for a year or two because no one they wanted in the first rd was left so they took the best potential overseas where some teams are still not doing their homework. He stays overseas, Cavs keep cap. He plays for one of the best Euro league teams and can be brought over when the Cavs nucleus is intact(2010). He can learn english in the next few years and play in the NBDL to see where he is at. And then explode in the NBA if he becomes a starting two or at least a rotation player. How many players selected at 30 are still in the league. Not a lot but if this guy in 3 years would have been a top 10 pick Ferry is the only one kicking himself then but then we lost a future lottery pick. And the point is, as long as we have Lebron, it is unlikely we have another lottery pick for awhile. So yeah I agree with Ferry, swing for the fences, we just wont know if it counts for another couple of years.

No, he doesn't.
This coming year (if he remains overseas) Eyenga might play spot minutes for a good spanish team in ACB. And that's all.

[Mumbles]

Danny Ferry, Chris Grant and Lance Blanks (Larry, Curly and Moe) outsmarted themselves again by taking Eyenga when I posted here before the draft that they must take Dajuan Summers who can help right away and has great offensive talent to score which is what the Cavs need. Summers is lighting up the Summer League.

Since they didn't listen to the man who knows, they deserve to lose. Another major drafting mistake by Larry, Curly and Moe.

I really don't see how they outsmarted themselves, they knew exactly what they were doing. You are kind of assuming that the Cavs would actually develop and play a Sam Young or Summers. What indications from the past lead you to believe that would happen? I doubt it would happen, at least not this upcoming season, where they would allegedly 'help'. I agree, I like Eyenga's potential, but I don't think his upside is that significant over a Summers or Sam Young. Those two are versatile and are capable of contributing to a winning team, even a championship team. But again, that would require an organization that is actually interested in developing them. Why even bother if you're going to give them the Shannon Brown/Sasha treatment? You gotta hope Eyenga develops, and they continue to add pieces like the Anthony Parkers. Everyone was like "omg Danny Green what a steal for the Cavs, he can contribute!". Yeah right, well we will see how much Danny Green actually plays and 'contributes' the next two years.

[prekazi]

He plays for one of the best Euro league teams and can be brought over when the Cavs nucleus is intact(2010).

Correction: Eyenga plays for one of the best Euroleague teams' B team. He played in the Spanish second division and I-like millions of basketball fans in Europe-have never heard of him before the draft.

After watching 4 Cavs Summer games, Eyenga is definitely 2 years away.

Eyenga is 2 years away from becoming a ACB(Spanish First division) player. NBA is far away for him.

[jnester71]

would have been better off trading the pick for some basketballs..

could have drafted balloon guy or king headspin

they'll get more time on the Quicken Loans floor in their lifetime than AY-AY-AYYYYYYY- Eyenga

the guy is the answer to a future trivia question... and thats it


Love the homers who say he "jumps higher than LeBron"... who cares?
the game is way more than jumping!

randloph keys, johnnie morton... many others... were all better picks!

[InBoobieWeTrust]

would have been better off trading the pick for some basketballs..

could have drafted balloon guy or king headspin

they'll get more time on the Quicken Loans floor in their lifetime than AY-AY-AYYYYYYY- Eyenga

the guy is the answer to a future trivia question... and thats it


Love the homers who say he "jumps higher than LeBron"... who cares?
the game is way more than jumping!

randloph keys, johnnie morton... many others... were all better picks!

Unbelievable how ignorant you can be because you didn't catch him playing in the NCAA tournament.

Eyenga is a guy who has limited basketball experience, and who doesn't speak English, yet showed IMMENSE talent and potential in the summer league. Elite athleticism coupled with some of the abilities Eyenga has shown in workouts and summer league is nothing to sneeze at.

He's obviously a wait and see type-pick, but judge the pick two years from now, if you judge it now you don't know what you're talking about. I want to wait until he has a decent grasp on the English language and at least another year of organized basketball under his belt before even beginning to judge him.