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Greg Monroe, Gani Lawal and Ed Davis are three of the top prospects

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  • Greg Monroe, Gani Lawal and Ed Davis are three of the top prospects

    http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?story_id=16296

    All that said, however, the two-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference honoree understands what he brings to the table and what he will have to improve upon in order to become an impact player at the NBA level.

    "If you pick me, you are going to get a guy that is going to rebound the heck out of the basketball," he told HOOPSWORLD. "I have been working on other parts of my game as well, but that is going to come. Right now, put me on the floor and I'm going to rebound. I'm going to play defense. The other stuff, I'm going to keep working on and I'm going to bring that along as I get better. Obviously, my mid-range game (needs to improve), which I feel, from March when our season ended until now, I have improved a lot. My mid-range. My shooting. My ball-handling. Obviously I'm not going to be bringing the ball up the court but I want to have that part of my game polished. And my free throws."
    Maybe he is the real Dale Davis clone


    If we were able to sang Lawal in the second round , I would be willing to look at a Bledsoe/Avery at #10
    Sittin on top of the world!

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    Re: Greg Monroe, Gani Lawal and Ed Davis are three of the top prospects

    My fault, I dont know how to edit the thread title after the fact
    Sittin on top of the world!

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      Re: Greg Monroe, Gani Lawal and Ed Davis are three of the top prospects Read more NBA news and insight: http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?story_id=16296#ixzz0otDoXVOQ

      I love Gani Lawal's game. If he were 6'11" I'd shove a grandma down the stairs to get him on the Pacers. He's going to have to battle his height a bit but he's the hardest working big in the draft and very smart. He's got big variety of post moves as well.

      All year I've said the ideal PF would be Lawal's game in Favor's body. That would be a #1 pick.

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        Re: Greg Monroe, Gani Lawal and Ed Davis are three of the top prospects Read more NBA news and insight: http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?story_id=16296#ixzz0otDoXVOQ

        Originally posted by Naptown_Seth View Post
        I love Gani Lawal's game. If he were 6'11" I'd shove a grandma down the stairs to get him on the Pacers. He's going to have to battle his height a bit but he's the hardest working big in the draft and very smart. He's got big variety of post moves as well.

        All year I've said the ideal PF would be Lawal's game in Favor's body. That would be a #1 pick.

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          Re: Greg Monroe, Gani Lawal and Ed Davis are three of the top prospects

          Taller than Millsap, but slightly shorter wingspan but longer standing reach.

          Someone's going to get a heck of a good player with Lawal and won't be surprised if someone reaches for him in the mid to late teens.

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            Re: Greg Monroe, Gani Lawal and Ed Davis are three of the top prospects

            I don't know that that is a reach. Lawal is an excellent player. He will be great in the pick and roll for some team as well. He ran an excellent PnR with less than stellar guards at GT. I really like everything he does. Has a nose for the basketball and excels as a rebounder. He is good defensively. The ONLY knock on this guy that I have is that he is 6'7.5" without shoes (6'9" with). I think he is going to be a solid PF, but without any center flexibility which hurts him for us. If we are taking him in the second round though I would be happy with that. We can't have enough bigs, especially smart ones, with three coming off the books this summer.
            "Your course, your path, is not going to be like mine," West says. "Everybody is not called to be a multimillionaire. Everybody's not called to be the president. Whatever your best work is, you do it. Do it well. … You cease your own greatness when you aspire to be someone else."

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              Re: Greg Monroe, Gani Lawal and Ed Davis are three of the top prospects

              If we take Ed Davis, I think he will be a steal.

              Maybe not in his first season, but he has the potential of being a solid defender. He's best known for that which is what we need in a PF.

              Much like Roy, Davis will get off to a shakey start, but then he'll add strength and improve in all aspects of his game making him a great player for this team in the future.

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                Re: Greg Monroe, Gani Lawal and Ed Davis are three of the top prospects

                Of the 3 I would want Ed Davis , to me his upside is far better. He could well turn into the defender we are looking for at the pf position , his offensive game though raw is inside something the Pacers currently lack.

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                  Re: Greg Monroe, Gani Lawal and Ed Davis are three of the top prospects

                  Ed Davis would help us immediately with his rebounding and shotblocking. His offensive game is still a work in the progress, but he has the fundamentals to be a solid offensive player both inside and out.

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                    Re: Greg Monroe, Gani Lawal and Ed Davis are three of the top prospects

                    Originally posted by Trophy View Post
                    If we take Ed Davis, I think he will be a steal.

                    Maybe not in his first season, but he has the potential of being a solid defender. He's best known for that which is what we need in a PF.

                    Much like Roy, Davis will get off to a shakey start, but then he'll add strength and improve in all aspects of his game making him a great player for this team in the future.
                    Originally posted by PR07 View Post
                    Ed Davis would help us immediately with his rebounding and shotblocking. His offensive game is still a work in the progress, but he has the fundamentals to be a solid offensive player both inside and out.
                    You guys are friggin' crazy... if they take ed davis... i will march on the fieldhouse. he's what, 6'9? 215 lbs <--- fact. PF? Whats a 215 lb scrawny PF going to do for our shotty inside D? We have no toughness down there and he will not bring that.

                    Patrick Patterson on the otherhand stands a resounding 6'9 245. Polished game... boards the ball. Ya know, if we go with a big man.
                    And this is coming ffrom a Gators fan...
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                      Re: Greg Monroe, Gani Lawal and Ed Davis are three of the top prospects

                      Originally posted by Pacers4Life View Post
                      You guys are friggin' crazy... if they take ed davis... i will march on the fieldhouse. he's what, 6'9? 215 lbs <--- fact. PF? Whats a 215 lb scrawny PF going to do for our shotty inside D? We have no toughness down there and he will not bring that.

                      Patrick Patterson on the otherhand stands a resounding 6'9 245. Polished game... boards the ball. Ya know, if we go with a big man.
                      And this is coming ffrom a Gators fan...
                      I agree with a lot of that but, when you mention height, you gotta compare apples to apples. Davis' 6'9" is taller than Patterson's 6'9". You can't compare height by listing one guy's measurements without shoes and the other's with shoes.

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                        Re: Greg Monroe, Gani Lawal and Ed Davis are three of the top prospects

                        Originally posted by Pacers4Life View Post
                        You guys are friggin' crazy... if they take ed davis... i will march on the fieldhouse. he's what, 6'9? 215 lbs <--- fact. PF? Whats a 215 lb scrawny PF going to do for our shotty inside D? We have no toughness down there and he will not bring that.

                        Patrick Patterson on the otherhand stands a resounding 6'9 245. Polished game... boards the ball. Ya know, if we go with a big man.
                        And this is coming ffrom a Gators fan...
                        Players can always add the strength by putting on the muscle. Most guys like Roy first coming into the league add the strength in the summer they're drafted or the start of their second year.

                        I don't know what you're talking about when you're saying he brings no D or toughness. He's listed as being a decent defender.

                        I'm not against Patterson, but he doesn't play nearly as much defense as Davis. Yes he already has the strength, but he's known for using it to defend.

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                          Re: Greg Monroe, Gani Lawal and Ed Davis are three of the top prospects

                          Originally posted by Trophy View Post
                          Players can always add the strength by putting on the muscle. Most guys like Roy first coming into the league add the strength in the summer they're drafted or the start of their second year.

                          I don't know what you're talking about when you're saying he brings no D or toughness. He's listed as being a decent defender.

                          I'm not against Patterson, but he doesn't play nearly as much defense as Davis. Yes he already has the strength, but he's known for using it to defend.
                          From what I have read Patterson is an abhorrent rebounder, which is something we can not have next to Roy

                          Davis' strengths at this point, are said to be rebounding and defense
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                            Re: Greg Monroe, Gani Lawal and Ed Davis are three of the top prospects

                            Originally posted by Trophy View Post
                            Players can always add the strength by putting on the muscle. Most guys like Roy first coming into the league add the strength in the summer they're drafted or the start of their second year.

                            I don't know what you're talking about when you're saying he brings no D or toughness. He's listed as being a decent defender.

                            I'm not against Patterson, but he doesn't play nearly as much defense as Davis. Yes he already has the strength, but he's known for using it to defend.
                            You mean like Bender and JO did?

                            Even when guys do put on weight it often ALTERS their overall game. It's not like they just keep being the same guy but stronger.

                            Also I think people overlook the SKILL of being able to develop. Its one thing to have potential and another to make good on that. So when I see Patterson or Lawal or Udoh improve their games during the season or from year to year I at least know that's something they can do.

                            I don't think Davis progressed this year, and I don't really see how people saw all this great play from him when he was injured for the most critical portion of the season.


                            I won't say he can't or won't improve, get stronger, etc, but what I am saying is where does this certainty that he will do those things come from?

                            Why not gamble on Charles Garcia instead if we are playing that game?

                            Why not assume that Warren is just about to find the same caliber game that Turner has?

                            For me Davis remains a scrawny pogostick type player who gets the homerun blocks but doesn't deny actual floor position...like Whiteside.


                            Speaking of that, I posted about Jordan (Tulsa) where he killed Whiteside. Stats wise it looks like Whiteside had a great game, but the difference was that very little came from going through Whiteside and on defense he struggled to stop Jordan. Most of his stats came on scraps created by the plays of other guys, whereas everything Tulsa did fed directly off of Jordan. Whiteside has 5 blocks, 2 came on the same play where a player already off balance challenges him, gets it put in his face and tries again. Whiteside didn't put him in the tough spot to begin with and if the player had been smart he would have just kicked out the blocked shot and started over. On the other end Jordan takes the ball away from a driving guard, one that's not off-balance.

                            So by stats you have even-ish guys (JJ had the better game outright), but HOW guys get those blocks, steals and points has a lot to do with my opinion.

                            Leading back to Davis, I do think he was like Whiteside. They weren't working their offense through him and he wasn't the kind of guy that pushes even a Booker or Lawal off the low block, let alone Boozer or Duncan.

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                              Re: Greg Monroe, Gani Lawal and Ed Davis are three of the top prospects

                              Originally posted by Naptown_Seth View Post
                              You mean like Bender and JO did?

                              Even when guys do put on weight it often ALTERS their overall game. It's not like they just keep being the same guy but stronger.

                              Also I think people overlook the SKILL of being able to develop. Its one thing to have potential and another to make good on that. So when I see Patterson or Lawal or Udoh improve their games during the season or from year to year I at least know that's something they can do.

                              I don't think Davis progressed this year, and I don't really see how people saw all this great play from him when he was injured for the most critical portion of the season.


                              I won't say he can't or won't improve, get stronger, etc, but what I am saying is where does this certainty that he will do those things come from?

                              Why not gamble on Charles Garcia instead if we are playing that game?

                              Why not assume that Warren is just about to find the same caliber game that Turner has?

                              For me Davis remains a scrawny pogostick type player who gets the homerun blocks but doesn't deny actual floor position...like Whiteside.


                              Speaking of that, I posted about Jordan (Tulsa) where he killed Whiteside. Stats wise it looks like Whiteside had a great game, but the difference was that very little came from going through Whiteside and on defense he struggled to stop Jordan. Most of his stats came on scraps created by the plays of other guys, whereas everything Tulsa did fed directly off of Jordan. Whiteside has 5 blocks, 2 came on the same play where a player already off balance challenges him, gets it put in his face and tries again. Whiteside didn't put him in the tough spot to begin with and if the player had been smart he would have just kicked out the blocked shot and started over. On the other end Jordan takes the ball away from a driving guard, one that's not off-balance.

                              So by stats you have even-ish guys (JJ had the better game outright), but HOW guys get those blocks, steals and points has a lot to do with my opinion.

                              Leading back to Davis, I do think he was like Whiteside. They weren't working their offense through him and he wasn't the kind of guy that pushes even a Booker or Lawal off the low block, let alone Boozer or Duncan.
                              OK,

                              So Jordan or Edoh(sp?)
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