Hype #9

To learn more about Telfair's history, here are some past interviews and articles:

Sebastian Telfair's World Wide Web (Sebastian Telfair articles from the last 3 years, plus pics and videos to the right)

Telfair's News Conference Press Conference (you need RealOne player to view the interviews, plus there's video's & pictures to the right)

The Point Guard of the Future

Star Treatment Begins Early

Scouting Sebastian Telfair

Sebastian Telfair has priorities in order

High school star Telfair says experience has been positive

New York star looks like LeBron's heir apparent

"Starchild"

Telfair learns to stay guarded

Telfair takes look at his future

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roY.

QRICH

Thnx for the links!!

I like his nickname

Sebastian "2 fast 2 furious" Telfair

ABM

Thanks for all the stuff, Hype #9!


Thought this was a pretty interesting/revealing article from the past.....


Heh, he's so....so non-Rasheed.

jackiejackal

Oh my gosh,thanks so much !!!!!!!!!

meru

Those pictures were taken when he was 12, right?

...right?

QRICH

You know what they say "The NY media has created this hype" blah blah blah..... Here is one of the best , if not best HS talent evaluaters on Telfair:

meru

Nobody's denying he's a great PREP player - so was Felipe Lopez.

Target

Anyone know how close a relationship him and his cousin have? Both went to Lincoln High School in Brooklyn.

If Marbury has been working with him for any frequency over time he'd likely have an edge over any prep pg's, most college pg's and some NBA pg's too.

Felipe Lopez have any NBA all star cousins and assist leaders?

Marbury led the NBA in assists last year. Our man ST is known for his passing. Not hard to see a correlation.

Oh and Marbury is only 6'2". ST could grow 2 more.

meru

Marbury worked with all of his brothers too - didn't do them much good.

For all I know. But then, LeBron James almost certainly didn't. Your point?

Maybe if you want to see it. Ever heard of Harvey and Horace Grant? Twin brothers? Totally different games?

I HOPE Telfair isn't going to model his game after Marbury, who is a notoriously selfish player and a locker-room cancer.

Yeah - maybe we've got our centre of the future!

Target

Oh did you compare him to LeBron James? Didn't see that. I thought you did compare him to Lopez. That's my point.

What's your agenda? Just to spout **** about the Blazers picks? For all ANYONE knows he could be a better pick than Lebron James but you chose Lopez's instead. Why?
How notoriously selfish can someone be while averaging 9 assists per game and leading the league? Just slightly less notoriously selfish than anyone else?

meru

Actually, Target, you're pretty point-less.
I THOUGHT you were suggesting that because he has a cousin who is a well-paid NBA point guard, that this meant something about his game. My point was that having successful relatives doesn't mean you will be successful, and conversely, you don't need to have 'em to BE successful. So, basically, they're irrelevant.

I prefer to think of it as a Mission from God.

I don't think even Telfair's own mother would make that claim. Tell you what, if he DOES turn out to be better than LeBron James, I will eat my laptop.

Lopez's what?

Sigh. The old assists=unselfish trope. I don't think I have the energy to take that one on AGAIN. Suffice to say, there are assists and there are assists. If you hang on to the ball until the last second then give it up to a good shooter who hits a shot, you get an assist. Were you unselfish? No. An unselfish player would've given it up sooner, and might make the pass that LEADS to the assist and not get an assist. Ball hogs often can rack up the assists. Marbury is a ball hog and a luh-OO-zer.

QRICH

It's kinda funny you're rippin on Telfair, a player who've you probably only seen play once or twice in a game (if that) I trust Warentien's eye for talent.

Hype #9

I'll try to post a video with some Bassy highlights. Not sure if I'm allowed to post the video in this thread, but I'll give it a shot.

(video waiting approval from mods)

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meru

I'll let you in on a secret - I've NEVER seen him play.

Not even once.

But I could say that about every single draftee (I'm not a big follower of the College game).

But even if I HAD seen him play, it would only have been against other high-schoolers, and what does that prove? It proves he's good at the high school level. But if that proved he was good at the NBA level, then there'd never be a draft bust, would there?

If only it were that simple. He does seem to have a good nose for talent BUT:
For one thing, Warkentien (sp.?) doesn't scout every player himself. He has a team of scouts.
For another, scouts can't make certain predictions about how high school talent will translate.
For a third point, a whole bunch of scouts have come out and said Telfair will basically suck.
Finally, I haven't heard Warkentien say thing one about Telfair. All I've heard is Nash and Cheeks, so for all we know they overrode W's objections to Telfair.

Hey, if Telfair turns out to be John Stockton crossed with Allan Iverson, he could end up my favourite player ever. But the history of (a) skinny little runts, and (b) hyped NY City Bballers is not good. The ones who have succeeded are Kenny Anderson and Marbury, and I hate both of their games (and Marbury's a tank next to Telfair, and weighed a good deal more than him at the same age).

QRICH