Late Night Bullets
I’ll update this in the coming hours, but here’s a late night round up of information from the last week or so. Some of this may be old hat to you, but judging by our comments these tidbits haven’t worked their way into all four corners just yet.
- Yiannis Bouroussis’ contract negotiations with Olympiacos have hit a stall. This could be good news for the Spurs. Time will tell. (HT: Bruno)
- Jonathan Givony passes on a report from an observer at the New Jersey workouts (HT: Jordan):
Austin Daye vs. Omri Casspi turned into a real wrestling match. Casspi just manhandled Daye, really threw him around. It was a bit disappointing to see how little Daye was able to compete from a strength perspective — Casspi is a kind of a skinny guy himself. At one point Casspi cut Daye’s lip open-he had to go to hospital for stitches. The Nets should have done a better job of getting someone to call fouls. Casspi was fouling the hell out of Daye. Some of the guys were looking at each other like what are we watching here?
Casspi was impressive, just like he’s been everywhere he’s gone. He plays hard, competes. He hit tough shots. Step-backs, runners. Then he missed some wide open Js — go figure. He hits the toughest shots, but can’t always make the easiest ones. He looked like he could be a great complementary player in a 5-on-5. Definitely an atypical player for a European.
- Kyle, author of an excellent Wizards blog called Truth About It, responds to the Manu to D.C. talk with a three-way trade suggestion. He sees a deal that would bring Gerald Wallace, Andray Blatche and the 5th pick to San Antonio. I appreciate his effort, but I see a trade that would bring a player three times as injury prone-and owed more money-back to San Antonio. No thanks. In terms of trade suggestions, Kyle has done a good job here. But I’m increasingly of the position that trading Ginobili doesn’t make sense.
- A 48MoH reader, Mr. O, emailed us new video of Viktor Sanikidze:
- Sanikidze would be an interesting summer league participant. But he hasn’t played against very tough competition. It would be nice to see him against NBA players.
- Vladimir Dasic has withdrawn his name from the draft.
- Omri Casspi has elected to stay in the draft.
- Connecting the dots to Sergey Gladyr. Keep it on the hush.
- Several weeks back, I promised to profile Victor Claver and Nando De Colo as two players that should be on the Spurs’ radar. Those profiles are forthcoming. For now, I want to note that both players will remain in the draft. That’s a pretty good set up for San Antonio.
- I’m sitting on recently completed interviews with James Gist and Austin Nichols. Look for those late tomorrow or Wednesday morning.
