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Memphis has traded guard Tony Wroten to the 76ers for a future second round pick, league source tells Y! Sports.

Are there any young guards on the roster anymore besides Franklin?

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I like Franklin a lot. Is he a 1/2 though or a 2/3? Good money saving move. Wasn't ever gonna get real time there.

2Mas wrote:Are there any young guards on the roster anymore besides Franklin?

Conley-Bayless
Allen-Miller-Franklin
Pondexter-Prince

I like Franklin a lot. Is he a 1/2 though or a 2/3? Good money saving move. Wasn't ever gonna get real time there.

Nick Calathes and Josh Akognon, although Josh's contract is not guaranteed. I do think he makes the team though.

GrizzledGrizzFan wrote:

2Mas wrote:Are there any young guards on the roster anymore besides Franklin?

Conley-Bayless
Allen-Miller-Franklin
Pondexter-Prince

I like Franklin a lot. Is he a 1/2 though or a 2/3? Good money saving move. Wasn't ever gonna get real time there.

Nick Calathes and Josh Akognon, although Josh's contract is not guaranteed. I do think he makes the team though.

Oh he's with you guys? I thought he was on Dallas. My fault. Hell yeah he'll make the team. That guy can ball.

Wroten stunk it up in Summer League, got fined for playing in an exhibiton Univ. Washington college alumni game during restricted time period, and appeared to be spending all his free time back in Seattle rather than in Memphis working with coaches and teammates. He's history. I saw more tweets by Marreesese Speights about Memphis this summer than Wroten, hah.

TWroten_LOE 29 Jul Game tonight at 7pm at north Seattle community college

WTF?

He has opportunity now with a team that will be in the lottery for years to come. Hopefully does better than our Jeremy Pargo did in 76ers. Maybe he won't be in the Dleague and Memphis has shown they have no interest in being a farm club anymore and carrying multiple draft picks for the Dleague. (Jamaal Franklin and Fab Melo get that honor this season perhaps).

WTF It doesn't make no sense on this trade besides salary dump. Terrible move for Grizzlies.

grizzlies50 wrote:WTF It doesn't make no sense on this trade besides salary dump. Terrible move for Grizzlies.

If you can answer this question in the affirmative then you may have a point.

Can you say without any questions that Tony Wroten is an NBA player and will not have to go to Europe to ply his trade?

IMO the jury is still out on that so if you look at it like the Grizz got a second round pick and shed salary on a player who may not be in the league after next season, seems about right.

dark-child wrote:

grizzlies50 wrote:WTF It doesn't make no sense on this trade besides salary dump. Terrible move for Grizzlies.

If you can answer this question in the affirmative then you may have a point.

Can you say without any questions that Tony Wroten is an NBA player and will not have to go to Europe to ply his trade?

IMO the jury is still out on that so if you look at it like the Grizz got a second round pick and shed salary on a player who may not be in the league after next season, seems about right.

Except they really didn't get a 2nd round pick. Top 50 protected PHI pick in 2014. Unless you think the Sixers are going to be in the top 10 teams of the league, it really was only about shedding the salary and opening a roster spot.

I think it's a great move.

Wroten has potential, but how many players with potential actually make it these days? Wroten had the potential to be good, but in my opinion he had even more potential to be a massive list clogger at our team..

Besides, we already have all the guard backups we need in Bayless, Calathes and Franklin and I doubt Wroten would have seen more than 5 minutes per night (on average).

I like wroten's upside but his game should be further along than it is now. He might be one of those guys who just doesnt have the work ethic to become a quality player.

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Fine by me, he never impressed in his limited minutes, and you have to think that he never impressed the coaching staff/organization in practice because he got so few minutes even when the team needed a backup PG in the worst way.

Maybe he'll turn into a bona fide NBA player down the road, but at this point I doubt it.

I was concerned about backup PG. So I watched Nick Calethes video many as I could today. I probably change my mind. Nick Calethes has good pick and roll, penetration, good transition ball passing skill, better middle range shoot than Tony Wroten right now to me. If Nick Calethes are able to play as a backup PG for Mike Conley. We may have a chance to make WCF again or even more.

grizzlies50 wrote:I was concerned about backup PG. So I watched Nick Calethes video many as I could today. I probably change my mind. Nick Calethes has good pick and roll, penetration, good transition ball passing skill, better middle range shoot than Tony Wroten right now to me. If Nick Calethes are able to play as a backup PG for Mike Conley. We may have a chance to make WCF again or even more.

lol - I don't think Calathes is the key to our making WCF again - we got there with Dooling last season. But yeah hopefully he can contribute but let's not joke around - the reason we made it is GaZBO and MC11

The big question is can they do it again and get over the hump?

In my opinion I think we need a favorable seed to make it, and by that i mean a #1 or #2 because there are six very good teams in the west. It would be nice not to have to be in a dogfight in the first round. Its very difficult to beat three top teams in a row.

For that to happen, I think the keys are the bench and the SF position. Ideally, Tayshaun Prince stops hesitating so much to shoot threes, and Pondexter plays starter minutes at both wing spots. Koufos and Ed Davis must be productive offensively, and we have to get steady PG play for 48 minutes.

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It makes plenty of sense- this guy is terrible at this stage and has 0 potential to play any meaningful minutes as an NBA point guard. Way too turnover prone and does not keep defenses honest with jumper.

triple double tonight

Can memphis develop any type of young talent? Tony Wroten? Xavier Henry? They killed Josh Selby's Career. They were all talented guards.

Don't forget Vasquez. He led destruction of the visiting Nets last night. Love what DeMarre Carroll is doing in Atlanta too.

The one notorious thing that's been associated with the Grizzlies has always been that they can never develop talent well at all. Too many times whenever this team has drafted a player, the direction of the developments of the players are not through and most of the draft picks are either traded or waived within a year in a half after being drafted by this team.