mrhonline wrote:LOL. If Sy if manages to crack the top 8 rotation in any point in his NBA career, he will be one of the biggest long shots to have ever succeeded.
Kudos for your optimism, though.
Not so much more a surprise than Rodrigue Beaubois.
In 2007-08, Beaubois got nearly the same stats and playing time with Cholet than Pape Sy this season.
In 2008-09, before being drafted, he got more playing time in the second part of the season, and turned to show what he can do, and that's what put him higher in the draft than some weeks before the draft.
Pape Sy could have been in the same situation if staying with Le Havre, getting more playing time next season and drafted in 2011.
This is the mystery part : he never have opportunity to show what he can do like Beaubois, except in two or three games, and he did a good job in these games.
He's also older than Beaubois, but has the same kind of potential in the sense that he's more build to play in an NBA style of b-ball than a FIBA style.
He's a bigger long shot than Beaubois, but there's a possibility he can surprise like Beaubois did last season with DAL, because even in France, lots of people thought he would be sent to a NBDL team and nearly never play for DAL before returning to Europe.
It's the same thing with Pape Sy, but at a .5 level I would say.
And I prefer put some optimism on that in order to forget a bit of 124M sent to a guy that will never, never, never be worth that, but more half of that.