Sauce Castillo
Stauskas with his first ever back-to-back 20 point games ... 3rd and 4th on the season, after having one of those in his first two years in the league.
Glad to see him having some modicum of success. Getting traded after your first year as a former first round pick had to be very unnerving.
March 22nd, 2017 at 11:45 PM ^
Muy caliente! Good for him!
...but I don't miss those Adidas uniformz.
I miss watching that team play minus the uniforms
March 23rd, 2017 at 10:22 AM ^
oh, well, you must've been privy to a very different experience than the rest of us...
March 23rd, 2017 at 10:31 AM ^
in the evening of the last day of classes in the spring.
March 22nd, 2017 at 11:48 PM ^
Gravy DeLeon??
March 22nd, 2017 at 11:55 PM ^
hit the sauce. Thanks.
Besides, I was getting thirsty anyway while watching the Championship game of the World Baseball Classic.
USA is putting a whopping to Puerto Rico right now, it's 7-0 in the 7th inning. But I WON'T talk about the performance of the USA starting pitcher Marcus Stroman...
Who needs an excuse?
March 23rd, 2017 at 12:16 PM ^
You're just not trying hard enough.
March 23rd, 2017 at 11:47 AM ^
How did the USA play Puerto Rico? Isn't Puerto Rico part of the USA?
March 23rd, 2017 at 12:01 AM ^
Good to see him finally adjusting to the NBA game. He's only 23 so his best is still ahead of him, as long as he can escape Philly.
March 23rd, 2017 at 12:35 AM ^
Philly is in better position than 2/3 of the league.
They have Ben Simmons, Joel Embiid and Dario Saric. These are the three core players to build around. Nik is a complimentary piece. Nik's shooting a passable 36% at 3 point shooting but he needs to improve it if he wants to stick a while longer.
Embiid is great, but he can't stay healthy and they may be ready to take the next step, but that step is from worst in the league to middling at best. They went from worst to fifth worst this year, which is a decent improvement, but given all the draft picks they've had not great.
Adding on to this Philly is likely to add another top 5 pick (possibly 2 if the Lakers fall out of the top 3).
But they didn't. The likelihood of Embiid staying healthy for an entire season is near zero. And they have to decide pretty soon if they want to invest in him for the next half a decade.
I love Nik, but his defense has still been a liability in the (admittedly few) Sixers games I've watched this year.
At this point, Philly just has a bunch of lottery tickets. Embiid didn't last the season despite being handled with kid gloves. We haven't seen Simmons, and in the history of the league, we've seen foot injuries go all sorts of ways. I like Saric, but he doesn't look like a foundational superstar. They still have a number or lottery picks forthcoming, but they haven't turned any of them into sure things so far.
March 23rd, 2017 at 11:17 AM ^
Embiid has to go in for a other lower-leg surgery this offseason, and it ranges from 6-8 week recovery to 8+ months. So relying on him going forward seems optimistic. Simmons hasn't played a minute of regular-season NBA ball; he has all the tools, but I don't know if anyone knows how good he is. Saric looks legit, though.
Stauskas is a great second-line shooter and on a good team could be a nice asset.
Am I wrong to say he should have stayed all four years here?
Every Beilein player who left early to NBA has underwhelmed.
Let's hope Wagner and Wilson are reading this
..except timmy, no?
Yeah, Tim is definitely flourishing in this his fourth season. Career highs in points, rebounds, assists, steals, and FG% while getting a career-high 26 minutes per game.
Season | Team | G | Min | FGM | FGA | FG% | 3PM | 3PA | 3P% | FTM | FTA | FT% | OR | DR | Reb | Ast | TO | Stl | Blk | PF | Pts |
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2016 | ATL | 69 | 26:11 | 5.1 | 11.3 | 45.6 | 1.9 | 5.3 | 35.9 | 1.9 | 2.6 | 75.6 | 0.4 | 2.2 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 14.1 |
Underwhelmed is a relative term. Of those guys, only Mitch failed to stick in the league, and his issues went beyond the physical. Still, athletically the NBA is a different ballgame, and most college stars don't turn into NBA stars. You combine that with the fact that Beilein has a system that gets more of guys than their athletic talent dictates, and you can understand why those guys haven't done what they did in college.
March 23rd, 2017 at 11:20 AM ^
GRIII is getting consistent minutes in the NBA, same with Stauskas and Hardaway. McGary got pinched by the NCAA and then couldn't stay sober in the NBA (and even he was drafted in the first round). Burke has probably had the most "disappointing" NBA career and there is no way a guy who won the NPOY as a sophomore is going to come back to play in college, and his flaws (size, athleticism, defensive indifference) probably aren't going to be fixed in college.
I want Michigan to be producing top players and they progress on with their careers when they are ready. If that comes "early", so be it. It's better for the team to show other recruits they can turn you into NBA millionaires than not.
because he could be such a great 6th/7th man off the bench.
I live pretty close to Nik’s parents and when he is home or visiting in the summer he works out at the same gym I do. This summer you could tell how much muscle he had put on.
Justin Feagin
Hardaway Jr. had a great night last night too.....29 points on 9/16 shooting, 2 blks, 3 assists. Was actually pretty much unstoppable when he was aggressive. Nice to see UM players having success in the league, certainly can't hurt recruiting.
I love me some Sauce Castillo, but he's not experiencing any success. His shooting numbers have ticked up across the board, but not nearly enough to make up for his zeros everywhere else. He's getting minutes with Philly because they're tanking and Stauskas is so bad that playing him more helps a team lose.
Stauskas may never be an all-around star, but there's no reason he can't make a good career as a Kyle Korver-esque three-point specialist. There's plenty of space in the NBA for a player who can stretch the floor and create space for others.
March 23rd, 2017 at 10:02 AM ^
Comparisons like this belie just how great a shooter a player like Korver (or another popular white guy comparison in JJ Redick) is. Korver is a career 43% three point shooter. His worst season is basically what Nik is averaging from three this year. Nik will likely carve out a lengthy career, but the chances of him ever becoming the shooter someone like Korver is are remote.
March 23rd, 2017 at 10:04 AM ^
As a long time process truster, I've watched a ton of Sauce live and on TV. It's clear that he is miles (and miles) ahead of SL where he was terrible. My sense is that he got focused on improving his game (and off of twitter) and Brett Brown really helped him. Surprisingly, the biggest improvement was in his shot creation off the dribble which was always there but not supposed to be his calling card in the NBA. While that has enabled him to contribute, I don't think he is good enough at it to assure himself a spot in the league based on that alone. What I do hold out hope for is that he regains confidence in his 3, which if it happens would bring his ceiling to a less accurate Korver +/- (plus for drive penetration, - for defense). I'm not sure if he will be on the Sixers past next year but I think that another year with BB and a team that seems to really be inspiring confidence in him will give him every opportunity to realize his potential.
March 23rd, 2017 at 10:15 AM ^
He doesn't shoot well enough to be a 3 point specialist, when he's an undersized defensive liability. He's not a 3 and D and he's not a true 3 point specialist. He's sub-replacement.
March 23rd, 2017 at 11:31 AM ^
He has very similar numbers to what J.J. Redick had in his third year.
March 23rd, 2017 at 11:47 AM ^
To be fair, that was also Redick's worst shooting season by far. That year is completely out of line with how he performed in pretty much every other season. There isn't anything that can be extrapolated from that year and applied to Nik.
In most cases, getting traded after a year is a bad sign. But getting traded away by the Kings is one of the surest signs that you're developing into a good player.