earthmansurfer wrote:From the "other" forum:Alex Kennedy:Stone met with the Knicks on Thursday morning, and they told him not to go overseas. They want him to come to their training camp whenever the lockout ends and they told him that he'll have a legitimate chance to make their team. Stone is going to wait out the work stoppage and then see what happens during training camp.
Former UTEP guard Julyan Stone said he has "guaranteed offers" from three NBA teams, but won't pick one until the lockout, which began at 10:01 p.m. MDT tonight, is resolved and that team can sign him."One team on the East Coast, one in the South, one on the West Coast," said Stone, whose name has been linked with Atlanta and Miami in Internet rumors. "I'm going to wait until the lockout is over. I'll be in camp with somebody so I'm not worried about it."
Stone said he is considering going to Europe for two months, but is leaning toward staying here and waiting out the lockout, which prohibits teams from signing free agents.
Though he can distribute the rock great, he can't shoot at all. Probably because he played center before he was in college...
So he is a center in a point guard's body ?
ramtour420 wrote:earthmansurfer wrote:From the "other" forum:Alex Kennedy:Stone met with the Knicks on Thursday morning, and they told him not to go overseas. They want him to come to their training camp whenever the lockout ends and they told him that he'll have a legitimate chance to make their team. Stone is going to wait out the work stoppage and then see what happens during training camp.
Former UTEP guard Julyan Stone said he has "guaranteed offers" from three NBA teams, but won't pick one until the lockout, which began at 10:01 p.m. MDT tonight, is resolved and that team can sign him."One team on the East Coast, one in the South, one on the West Coast," said Stone, whose name has been linked with Atlanta and Miami in Internet rumors. "I'm going to wait until the lockout is over. I'll be in camp with somebody so I'm not worried about it."
Stone said he is considering going to Europe for two months, but is leaning toward staying here and waiting out the lockout, which prohibits teams from signing free agents.
Though he can distribute the rock great, he can't shoot at all. Probably because he played center before he was in college...
So he is a center in a point guard's body ?
i think that time period was High school; and at that time it was PG in a center's body.
martin wrote:ramtour420 wrote:earthmansurfer wrote:From the "other" forum:Alex Kennedy:Stone met with the Knicks on Thursday morning, and they told him not to go overseas. They want him to come to their training camp whenever the lockout ends and they told him that he'll have a legitimate chance to make their team. Stone is going to wait out the work stoppage and then see what happens during training camp.
Former UTEP guard Julyan Stone said he has "guaranteed offers" from three NBA teams, but won't pick one until the lockout, which began at 10:01 p.m. MDT tonight, is resolved and that team can sign him."One team on the East Coast, one in the South, one on the West Coast," said Stone, whose name has been linked with Atlanta and Miami in Internet rumors. "I'm going to wait until the lockout is over. I'll be in camp with somebody so I'm not worried about it."
Stone said he is considering going to Europe for two months, but is leaning toward staying here and waiting out the lockout, which prohibits teams from signing free agents.
Though he can distribute the rock great, he can't shoot at all. Probably because he played center before he was in college...
So he is a center in a point guard's body ?
i think that time period was High school; and at that time it was PG in a center's body.
I've always believed that one of the biggest issues for some of the more athletic or larger kids during certain periods in their evolution as BB players is that they are too reliant on their natural abilities, which allow them to overwhelm most opponents with their size or speed, and don't spend enough time perfecting their shooting technique, and the other skills which will allow them to excel against the kids who can match their athletic ability.
Paladin55 wrote:martin wrote:ramtour420 wrote:earthmansurfer wrote:From the "other" forum:Alex Kennedy:Stone met with the Knicks on Thursday morning, and they told him not to go overseas. They want him to come to their training camp whenever the lockout ends and they told him that he'll have a legitimate chance to make their team. Stone is going to wait out the work stoppage and then see what happens during training camp.
Former UTEP guard Julyan Stone said he has "guaranteed offers" from three NBA teams, but won't pick one until the lockout, which began at 10:01 p.m. MDT tonight, is resolved and that team can sign him."One team on the East Coast, one in the South, one on the West Coast," said Stone, whose name has been linked with Atlanta and Miami in Internet rumors. "I'm going to wait until the lockout is over. I'll be in camp with somebody so I'm not worried about it."
Stone said he is considering going to Europe for two months, but is leaning toward staying here and waiting out the lockout, which prohibits teams from signing free agents.
Though he can distribute the rock great, he can't shoot at all. Probably because he played center before he was in college...
So he is a center in a point guard's body ?
i think that time period was High school; and at that time it was PG in a center's body.
I've always believed that one of the biggest issues for some of the more athletic or larger kids during certain periods in their evolution as BB players is that they are too reliant on their natural abilities, which allow them to overwhelm most opponents with their size or speed, and don't spend enough time perfecting their shooting technique, and the other skills which will allow them to excel against the kids who can match their athletic ability.
Thats interesting. When I read that, I thought "Mailman and Stockton". These two guys had an elaborate warm up routine before games in order not to sustain an injury. Together with the skills that you are talking about, it enabled them to hold some crazy records.
It might be an old quote but I believe it was Hoopsworld that had an article today on the undrafted free agents and quoted Stone as saying he has an invite to the Knicks training camp whenever it starts.
Stone is the kind of guy that you want on a team that values ball movement. If you can get him to fix his jumper you've got a real steal. Not every poor shooter remains that way. Remember how bad Ariza was? With hard work it's possible Stone could get it going.
It's gonna be great to have a NBDL team for player development the way we want our players to learn to play.
