d12fan wrote:cougar13 wrote:Well if we had gone by the comments made by SVG that summer when Redick didn't just score, but he also showed he could play defense that is what SVG said. And all it got Redick was the bench.
So saying that because of his great summer league play Lee is better then Redick means nothing, since as so many here keep saying (or did until this summer) that in summer league you are not playing against anyone of NBA caliber wait until the real season begins to see that kind of action.
As I have said before wait for the real action to begin before you crown Lee.
As I said before , I'm not basing anything on summer league . Lee has a better skill set than JJ . JJ is a shooter and that's it . SVG will never play him significant minutes because he's such a liability on defense . Since you don't like what I'm saying you probably haven't read any expert opinions so here's a few links for you
http://sports.espn.go.com/nbadraft/draf ... tyear=2008
http://www.sportsline.com/nba/story/10878363
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=y ... &type=lgns
If you weren't such a JJ homer you would already know this. If JJ is still here when the season starts he will be at the end of the bench again
Lets see you are saying Lee is starting material because of what a 3 "experts" said about the draft and of course what you said Lee did in Summer League.
Did you know that Chad Ford said that Redick was a perfect fit for Orlando when he was drafted. I mean if you want to go by the "experts" instead of actual play then you will be able to find anything you want.
So lets take some information from your experts that you linked to such as this from espn:
It's interesting that, given the Magic's needs in the post, they didn't grab Darrell Arthur. He is saying that instead of the Magic drafting Lee.
Next we have sportsline and Gary Parrish who calls mocks drafts ridiculous well that sums up that expert.
The we have yahoo who actually used DraftExpress who said they have this thing about Lee, but interesting enough they had this same very thing about Redick when he was drafted by the Magic.
So as I said in this post you can find anything you want to make your spin. I wouldn't say point of view because these "experts" are just spinning and that is what they do every year hoping that in the end they call the draft correctly.
What I posted and you ignored was that summer league proves nothing now we have to see how Lee performs in the real world of the NBA that will be more telling.
Right now they are going to have to fight to see who starts and who backs up each other so that the Magic will go further then last year.
If we went my your reasoning then only you get to pick and choose who would start for the Magic, but that isn't how it works.
Tryouts start Oct. 1st when the team really starts to practice together then SVG can see what works and what doesn't.