what do you guys think about Foye?

Pistol Pete Vescey · Post #1 » by **Pistol Pete Vescey** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:24 am

I haven't seen Foye play much this year but his statistics in the past five or so games seem promising. he's always been a pretty intriguing player and I'm curious what you guys think, both of his development so far and where you see his game headed in the future?

farzi · Post #2 » by **farzi** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:28 am

He's a good player, not a great player. Middle of the road starter, possibly a fringe all-star, or a very high quality backup.

Just an outside opinion, flame if you want.

cookie_rhino_5_ · Post #3 » by **cookie_rhino_5_** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:37 am

i personally think that he's been exciting to have back...coming off the injury missing as much as he did he's been coming along very nice as of late...i think he's going to be a special player and cant wait to see him at the beginning of next year

big3_8_19_21 · Post #4 » by **big3_8_19_21** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:44 am

I think the one thing he needs to work on is finding JUST the right amount of offensive aggressiveness and apply it consistently. As soon as he does that, he'll be an 18 and 6 guy in the relatively near future and probably a 20+ ppg guy further down the road.

kandiking · Post #5 » by **kandiking** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:51 am

starter. nothing more.

deeney0 · Post #6 » by **deeney0** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:35 pm

I've been very happy with how he's played the last two weeks.

collin_k41 · Post #7 » by **collin_k41** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:30 pm

big3_8_19_21 wrote:I think the one thing he needs to work on is finding JUST the right amount of offensive aggressiveness and apply it consistently. As soon as he does that, he'll be an 18 and 6 guy in the relatively near future and probably a 20+ ppg guy further down the road.

Agree 100%

GopherIt! · Post #8 » by **GopherIt!** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:00 am

He's a good player, not a great player. Middle of the road starter, possibly a fringe all-star, or a very high quality backup.

Well that's just about the most schizophrenic opinion of a player I've ever seen. It covers every point guard from Kyle Lowry to Baron Davis. lol

SSUBluesman · Post #9 » by **SSUBluesman** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:21 am

big3_8_19_21 wrote:I think the one thing he needs to work on is finding JUST the right amount of offensive aggressiveness and apply it consistently. As soon as he does that, he'll be an 18 and 6 guy in the relatively near future and probably a 20+ ppg guy further down the road.

That's pretty much my feeling in the little I've seen of him. He answered my questions about his ability to create and find people, now he needs to learn when to dish/when to shoot. Oh yea, and to go left.

theGreatRC · Post #10 » by **theGreatRC** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:53 pm

Well, over his last 5 games, he is in the top 10 SG category after Brandon Roy.

http://www.hoopsstats.com/basketball/fa ... /3/eff/5-1

horaceworthy · Post #11 » by **horaceworthy** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:41 pm

But the last 5 games he's been playing PG (although in that case, he ranks 8th instead of 9th, just ahead of Billups and just behind Mo Williams).

He's looked much better than I thought he would since Telfair got hurt. He still has areas where he could improve, but he's not making the same mistakes he made last year, and he's shown more talent as a distributor than I thought he had. As has already been said, he does need to find that balance between scoring and distributing, but he has made progress from last year.

the_bruce · Post #12 » by **the_bruce** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:13 am

He just needs to find a balance between scoring foye and distributing foye. It doesn't seem like he can do both. I think he might be a bit better PG prospect than I expected.

I think he should get to the line tons more than he currently is. His ability to finish around the basket is pretty impressive, and we have Al under there to help clean up missed attempts on the offensive glass. They really need to send him to the rack more.

Blame Rasho · Post #13 » by **Blame Rasho** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:20 am

I wonder if Minny is deadset on him being a point guard. Granted I have not seen him play much but there is nothing that tells me that he is locked into his position has a point guard for this team. If Rose( I am very high on him by the way) comes along, do the Wolves brass pass on him due to Foye?

the_bruce · Post #14 » by **the_bruce** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:30 am

I dont think the FO passes on Rose, but I think they would easily pass on bayless\gordon.

theGreatRC · Post #15 » by **theGreatRC** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:35 am

TD is the MAN wrote:I wonder if Minny is deadset on him being a point guard. Granted I have not seen him play much but there is nothing that tells me that he is locked into his position has a point guard for this team. If Rose( I am very high on him by the way) comes along, do the Wolves brass pass on him due to Foye?

No way in hell we pass on Rose, if we picked Rose, Foye would be SG, PG when Rose sits.

shrink · Post #16 » by **shrink** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:57 am

We're only starting to see his ceiling, and he'll be even better next year.

JahReid · Post #17 » by **JahReid** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:37 am

How does Foye get so many boards lately? I have him in fantasy and he's been racking up the rebounds. I don't get to watch any of the games live but was wondering for those who have, how has he been getting so many? Is he a really good rebounding guard or what?

theGreatRC · Post #18 » by **theGreatRC** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:42 am

JahReid wrote:How does Foye get so many boards lately? I have him in fantasy and he's been racking up the rebounds. I don't get to watch any of the games live but was wondering for those who have, how has he been getting so many? Is he a really good rebounding guard or what?

He is usually stronger than the player he is guarding, and is always the last guy back, so he usually gets those back end rebounds, but he is a good rebounder.

He's grabbed 7,3,10,7,10 in his last five games which is an average of 7.4. Pretty damn good.

JahReid · Post #19 » by **JahReid** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:55 am

Honestly I was down on Foye, but he really could break out next year. He has tremendous skill, just needs to find his niche. It's arguable he's better than Ben Gorden, a player who also is in the small SG mold.

big3_8_19_21 · Post #20 » by **big3_8_19_21** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:59 am

I don't think we'll ever use Foye as a full-time SG. At most he would be half time PG, half SG.

However I really like the choices of when to shoot and be aggressive and when to pass in the second half vs. the Grizz from Foye. He really had a nice balance going there. He was only 4-12 from the field, but he was 0-4 in the first half. If you look at the second half, which is the half I am commending him for, he was 4-8 and had 12 points and had some nice passes, especially one that comes to mind where he bulleted a pass parallel to the baseline to Jefferson for an easy lay-in.