[JuX]

We can't expect Brewer to be our starter right away. That doesn't always work that way with the rookies in the first part of regular season. He will have a long way to learn how to be useful in the offensive end which includes shooting the ball.

The case with McCants, it didn't work very well. I hope that the change of momentum will do him good for the regular season. I still don't give up hopes on him yet. Maybe for one more year.

Back to Brewer. Defensively, he did us wonders. However, how does it prove us that he will be that effective in the NBA. NBA and SL is not exactly the same. What SL is lacking is the experiences and All-Star players, so that are not really equivalent to the NBA. The SL Wolves are playing much smaller opponents like San Antonio, that is probably why we might be not getting the right ideas of what Brewer can actually do for us.

Hassell is a very good at perimeter defense but he disappears most of times in the offensive end. I mean, he don't take a lot of attempts, hence his ppg is considerably too low for a starting shooting guard/small forward. I think for now, we will pencil in Hassell as our starter, he knows what to do and he knows the playbook.

IMO, it's too early to say whether Brewer is an upgrade to Hassell. He has yet proved to us that he'll be Trenton Hassell's successor.

[sheefo13]

Well in todays game, McCants def shut us all up. Looks like he finally stopped just shooting and took it to the rim. The stats are nice to look at for everyone. McCants finished with 32. 8-16 from the field. Took only 3 3's and made 1. The crazy stat is free throws. He went 15-19 from the line! 19 times to the line!!!! Obviously he started taking it to the rim. If he can learn to take it to the hoop, then he can be this good.
Foye was the worst of the 4, with 12 points, 5 boards, 4 assists, and 5 turnovers. At least he managed to stay in the game.

Brewer had a "Marion" type of a game. Only scoring 5 points, he manages to pulled down 10 boards, dish out 7 assists, and block 2 shots... I must say, that is impressive.

Smith dropped 21...4 boards.


Impressive win... Especially McCants!

[Mateo]

I'm still upset that we wasted a pick on Chris Richard. I think we took him just so Brewer would have a friend on the team. We probably could have picked him up in free agency anyways.

[sheefo13]

I probably would have taken a couple other players... But Smith had similar numbers last summer I believe. Smith just went off for 20 in the second game of the season though, and Richard won't do that. I think Richard is simply going to be a big body... thats it. I doubt he works out, but I don't think there are too many players in the 2nd round that would help us out at this point. Only guy I think that might be something that we could of drafted is DJ Strawberry

[Avalanche]

Smith is huge, guy is built like a tank and continues to just get it done offensively.
ive been very impressed with him, foye and brewer all summer league, and at least mccants got this big game in before it ended... will be interesting to see how brewers defence is against seasoned pro's