So happy that he was drafted. Think he has a chance to be a guy who hangs around the league for a number of years. We all know he will bust his tail to give himself the best opportunity of doing so. The most important thing is to make the active roster this year.
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On a related note, do you think Marcus Smart is kicking himself right now? He would have definitely been a top 5 pick.
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He likely knew that when he elected to stay at OSU.
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Orlando had a great draft. Ro and Oladipo both have superior intangibles and work their butts off. The locker room gained two big-time leaders and even if they lose Afflalo and Nelson in the next couple years, they're positioned to make gains on the pack in the East.
As far as where Ro fits on the current roster... well. Presumably, Tobias Harris exits camp as either the starting small forward or the sixth man. If he's off the bench, he should be considered a premier stretch-4 (otherwise, he'd have the stamp of approval to start at SF). Since that stretch-4 is probably Osby's comfort zone, he'll have to play a Carl Landry/Luc Mbah a Moute type D-and-boards-while-undersized role. He's got the grit and athleticism to make it work, I think.
Otherwise, if Harris starts at the 3 and Andrew Nicholson and Moe Harkless fight it out to start at the 4, Ro COULD win minutes at the 4 off the bench, taking elbow jumpers and crashing the boards. He's a different look than Nicholson and more fundamentally sound than Harkless. Maybe Rob Hennigan, the vet of Sam Presti's system, sees him as a cheap analogue of Nick Collison. In which case, that's just perfect.
Good luck to the man in the Magic Kingdom!
As far as where Ro fits on the current roster... well. Presumably, Tobias Harris exits camp as either the starting small forward or the sixth man. If he's off the bench, he should be considered a premier stretch-4 (otherwise, he'd have the stamp of approval to start at SF). Since that stretch-4 is probably Osby's comfort zone, he'll have to play a Carl Landry/Luc Mbah a Moute type D-and-boards-while-undersized role. He's got the grit and athleticism to make it work, I think.
Otherwise, if Harris starts at the 3 and Andrew Nicholson and Moe Harkless fight it out to start at the 4, Ro COULD win minutes at the 4 off the bench, taking elbow jumpers and crashing the boards. He's a different look than Nicholson and more fundamentally sound than Harkless. Maybe Rob Hennigan, the vet of Sam Presti's system, sees him as a cheap analogue of Nick Collison. In which case, that's just perfect.
Good luck to the man in the Magic Kingdom!
OU has sent 5 players to the NBA who were not 1st round picks that had lengthy careers - Gar Heard, Clifford Ray, Anthony Bowie, Brent Price and Eduardo Najera. They combined to play about 50 years, give or take. Here's to Ro' making it 6 for 60! Congrats, big fella!
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Osby is nowhere near as talented as big Al, but at least he defends.
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Congrats to him, he will be a solid backup SF, may even see sometime at PF. In the NBA he'll be able to showcase his handles and perimeter jumpshot that he wasn't able to do at OU.
I could see him definitely being a Danny Granger type player.
I could see him definitely being a Danny Granger type player.
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OK, so my Nook just sent the most recent edition of Sports Illustrated and one of their pull quotes this week was...
And what was it in reference to? Rob Hennigan, addressing the media before the draft on how they would spend their second round pick, which turned out to be Osby.
Poor choice of words, eh?
And what was it in reference to? Rob Hennigan, addressing the media before the draft on how they would spend their second round pick, which turned out to be Osby.
Poor choice of words, eh?
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Poor choice of words, eh?
It depends on the context. I would like to hear how it sounded when he said it.
I take it to mean that late in the second round, he's looking for a person who he knows will give him what he wants, a certain personality.
He didn't say it was a throwaway pick, only that someone he can trust has a better chance to make an impact than someone he doesn't.
I think this is Ro' to a T, and he did a very, very good job reinforcing people's impressions of those qualities through the draft courtship process.
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I was curious too, since it ended up involving Osby, so here goes:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY5kBOwgKFM[/ame]
You have to go all the way to the end of this video (watch the last 15 seconds or so) for the quote.
The pre-draft press conference with the Magic GM is understandably about the No. 2 overall pick. He mostly doesn't talk about the No. 51, but that was one of two questions I think he got about it. He addresses it more earlier in the conference
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY5kBOwgKFM[/ame]
You have to go all the way to the end of this video (watch the last 15 seconds or so) for the quote.
The pre-draft press conference with the Magic GM is understandably about the No. 2 overall pick. He mostly doesn't talk about the No. 51, but that was one of two questions I think he got about it. He addresses it more earlier in the conference
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I don't by any measure see that as a comment on Osby -- he's just saying what everyone knows: that in a weak draft, the second round is hit-or-miss at best. Now, if he'd said it after picking Romero, it'd be different.
