JujitsuFlip wrote:JonFromVA wrote:On the flip side, while I like what I hear about the Cavs and the Charge's relationship ... who exactly has the Charge developed? What weaknesses have they fixed?
Summer league MVP, a year in the g-league and 3 productive years in the NCAA and Isaiah Mobley has earned all of 1 minute so far this season?
Off the top of my head, Dean Wade.
It was only 8 games and he was older but Charge were the precursor for Alan Anderson signing a bunch of NBA deals.
Jorge Gutiérrez i think arguably would qualify, in his back and forth stints between the NBA and the Charge.
Quinn Cook for sure, guy became a 2 time NBA champion.
Would we put Joe Harris on that list? I'm not sure.
Maybe Jon Leuer?
Also, you have to keep in mind, JB literally only played 8 guys this past game, not counting garbage time. JB isn't a Kerr or Pop type who will give minutes to 12 guys per night.
What do you think those guys learned at the g-league level, though?
Rookie Dean Wade averaged 10 & 10 on 69/50 splits for the Cavs, but he only played a total of 71 minutes as he rarely saw the floor outside of a blowout loss.
23 points, 20 boards, 3 blocks, 71% 3PT shooting in his Canton debut. Fair to ask how much Canton had to teach a player who can step in and put up silly numbers like that in their first game in the g-league.
Are we sure we did him (or us) any favors by not finding him more than 71 minutes?
I will say, at least we gave Jon Leuer a few tries early in the season to show us something before shutting him down. That he proved to be a useful player after we traded him is not an indication of our player development and talent evaluation at the time.
Anyway, this isn't about how to handle a late 2nd round pick or a UDFA ... if Emoni has first round talent (and our coach went way beyond that), then he deserves some opportunities and patience.