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NBA Comparison: Dajuan Wagner

Strengths: Tremendous scorer with excellent body strength … Has the ability to play both guard positions, with solid ball handling and passing ability … Very good at driving to the basket and creating scores … Has a solid mid range game with a good pull up shot off the dribble … Showed the ability to create offense for himself even with opposing defenses keying on him with 2-3 defenders … Solid 3 point shooter at 37%, hitting 55 on the season ... On top of great offensive skills, he has the ability to lock down opponents defensively … Averaged close to 50% FG and 4 APG despite a weak supporting cast …

Weaknesses: A bit of a tweener at 6-3 as he’s better at the 2-guard position, but showed the ability to run the point as a freshman … Dominated lesser competition, so it’s tougher to gauge his abilities as the level of talent in the Big Sky Conference is inferior … Needs to show better focus on the defensive end of the floor at all times, as he is extremely effective when he gives full effort … He is a tremendous 1-1 talent, but prove he has the ability to involve teammates … A solid though not overwhelming level of athlete ... Could struggle to get shots off the same way on the NBA level as he's small and lacks freakish athleticism ...

Notes: Averaged 24.2 ppg as a freshman (9th in the country)... The leading scorer among returning players to NCAA basketball ... Never scored less than 14 pts all season ...

We have a new #3.

How's that taste, Ben?









(it's kind of sickening that it's because of Dwyane Wade, though)

Holy Shit Stuckey and Joe just Bitch slapped Ben big time, I guess that ends the wil they retire number 3 debate. Stuckey will wear 3 as a tribute to D-wade, sorry I just tasted lunch for the second time.

We're pissed too!

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DAMN!!

better than #31

What impressed me most about him wasn’t his strength, wasn’t his ability to score – what impressed me the most was his ability to pass the ball. He can really pass, can really see.

Originally Posted by Lou Roe & Mark Macon, collectively
We're pissed too!


LOL

He was rated as the 10th best guard in the nation(24th best player) on cbsssportsline.com. And thats with Durant listed as a guard.

http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/playerrankings/regularseason/G

He was rated as the 10th best guard in the nation(24th best player) on cbsssportsline.com. And thats with Durant listed as a guard.

http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/playerrankings/regularseason/G

yea but Aflalo is ranked 72nd and little Aaron Brooks is 4th. Kinda makes the stats a little sketchy.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2003764030_stuckey27.html

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/cbasketball/293543_stuckey24.html

http://djvarc.newsvine.com/_news/2007/06/28/807029-former-kentwood-star-helped-by-blended-family

My observations from what I saw before the draft: He LOVES the bank shot, which is a good sign for his fundamentals for the game. He's a decent defender, but has great closing speed on jumpers. Athletic, but not freakishly. Good first step, but doesn't have the lasting speed to consistently get to the basket.

But this is all from minimal highlights against lesser competition.

Sounds like Stuckey really has humble backgrounds and his attitude seems low key as well. We all worry about him coming from a small-time school, but his mentality to prove himself might be his biggest asset.

This kid sounds like the type to really seize every opportunity given to him. "Had to work with what I had" makes you think that he's very strong willed. I can't wait to see him in the summer league and see if he can be an asset off the bench.

Everything I've heard about the kid has been positive, other than that he came from a small school. I've never seen him play, but it sounds like he's an offensive threat... and we need more of those in a Pistons uniform.

^Hank sighting

Stick around pal

^Hank sighting

Stick around pal

Hey Glenn. Now that I have much more time on my hands, I definitely plan on sticking around. It's great to be back... just in time for football season!

http://www.nba.com/summerleague2007/players/stuckey_070907.html

http://www.nba.com/media/stuckey_300_070709.jpg


Rodney Stuckey: Ready to Compete

By Maurice Brooks
Posted Jul 10 2007 7:46AM

LAS VEGAS, July 9, 2007 -- Trailing by six entering the final period, Pistons summer league coach Terry Porter made a game-changing adjustment. He decided to put the ball in Rodney Stuckey’s hands and let him use his athleticism to make plays.

The first-round pick out of Eastern Washington rewarded Porter’s confidence by scoring 11 of his game-high 27 points in the fourth quarter to help Detroit rally past Memphis, 80-78, in Day 4 action inside Cox Pavilion.

Stuckey’s point total wasn’t the highest by a player in the tournament, but it may have been the most impressive. Although he hit the occasional jumper, the majority of his points came on stop-me-if-you-can drives down the lane.

And judging by the results, it was obvious that the Grizzlies didn’t have an answer for the point guard.

You know how in football there are some running backs that run though an opponent rather than try to make them miss? Watching Stuckey with the ball in his hands is reminiscent of that.

While protecting the rock, he rumbles down the lane, takes the bump from his opponent and finishes at the rim.

“I’ve been aggressive my entire life,” Stuckey said. “I love to get hit by my defender. I believe in going hard and having no fear.”

He drained 9-of-16 shots from the field and was a perfect 9-for-9 from the free-throw line. He also had two assists and two steals in 30 minutes of play.
“I’m just trying to help my team,” Stuckey said. “Coach told me to go to the basket and that is what I did. I was sluggish in our first game and I had too many turnovers. It had been a longtime since I played five-on-five. I had been playing a lot of one-on-one and two-on-two.”

Porter gave Stuckey his props.

“He was real aggressive turning the corner,” Porter said. “I told him to look for his shot and he made them.”

Obviously in Detroit the backcourt of Richard Hamilton and Chauncey Billups are the present. Pistons’ fans got a glimpse of the future when Stuckey teamed with fellow first rounder Arron Afflalo.

Afflalo, a former UCLA standout, played well in flashes, scoring 11 points and grabbing five rebounds.

“I think they are trying to get a feel for one another,” Porter said. “It is going to take them some time to get use to playing together.”

While Stuckey left his biggest impression on the offensive end, he showed he is no slouch defensively. He was effective in containing Memphis guard Mike Conley Jr.

“He is real quick,” said Stuckey about Conley. “I gapped him a little and tried to contest his shot.”

Porter said that Stuckey's defense was one of the key’s to Detroit’s victory.

“Stuckey played Conley well,” Porter said. “Conley is very fast. Stuckey did a good job on him and we didn’t get killed on penetration.”

Yeah that's BS. Stuckey got burned. Conley would have done that to a lot of players, and it wasn't a great benchmark of his defense, but at least they can report it honestly.

He did better than expected, I think. Not great, but better than expected. I think he could end up being a pretty good pick if he keeps developing.

PROPAGANDA WARNING

:langlois:


What a Week

by Keith Langlois
Friday, July 13, 2007

LAS VEGAS – Joe Dumars is a little amused, a little amazed and maybe a little perturbed even, that the world expressed surprise at how seamlessly Rodney Stuckey took to playing point guard for the Pistons’ Las Vegas Summer League team. Coming into the draft, the general consensus of analysts was that Stuckey was a shooting guard.

“The general consensus hadn’t seen him play,” Dumars said through a wry smile as he watched Stuckey the other day during a scrimmage with Phoenix, “and we had. We scouted him all year. We watched him play a ton of games. We watched everything he did. So it’s not surprising to us. It might be surprising to people who formed impressions before they’d ever seen the kid play. We’ve watched hours and hours of him play. We had him in to work out. So now we’re the last people to be going, ‘Wow, we’re surprised.’ ”

The general rule of thumb in summer leagues is you find out who can’t play, not necessarily who can.

But Stuckey, the 6-foot-5 guard from Eastern Washington Dumars made the 15th pick in the draft, is giving the Pistons every indication that he’s everything they envisioned: a guard perfectly comfortable playing both backcourt spots, with excellent size, explosive playmaking ability off the dribble, a reliable perimeter jump shot and the demeanor to grow into a solid defender.

And those are just the bullet points among the realm of the tangible. It’s perhaps even riskier to extrapolate meaning relative to intangibles from summer play, but it was hard to ignore the way Stuckey owned the fourth quarter through his first three summer league performances.

After a slow start in the opener, Stuckey played well in the second half of an overtime win over Philadelphia, finishing with 14 points. Then he was the dominant player in a comeback win over Memphis on Monday, orchestrating everything down the stretch, and followed up with another command fourth-quarter performance in a win over Washington in which the Pistons won the fourth quarter 35-13.

He balanced aggression with prudence, exploiting openings without tiptoeing over the line to recklessness. He played with remarkable poise for a rookie getting his first taste of NBA action, especially for someone who hadn’t played five-on-five basketball since early March.

“He’s doing a great job of using his body to get in the paint and finish layups and draw fouls and create for others, as well,” fellow first-round rookie Arron Afflalo said of Stuckey after the win over Washington. “You saw it last game and you saw it tonight. He’s playing great.”

If the sort of progress he displayed in his first week can be trusted, Stuckey figures to have a rapid learning curve. And he admits the amount he must learn caught him a little off-guard.

“It’s just a lot to learn,” he said. “The game is so much faster and guys are so much stronger. If you’re in the wrong position at the wrong time, it’s a big difference than when you’re in college. You have to be in the right position and the right time – and if you’re not, you’re going to get burned.

“It’s just all part of being a rookie. You’ve got to learn and every game, I’m learning something. Having (assistant coaches Terry) Porter and (Michael) Curry and all those guys on the bench is really helpful because they’ve been in the league for a while. Hearing what they have to say, you take that in and try to put it in your game.”

But Stuckey would like to dispel the notion that he has more catching up to do because he played at a small Division I school in the Skyline Conference as opposed to fellow draft choices Arron Afflalo and Sammy Mejia of UCLA and DePaul. In summer pickup games at the University of Washington in his native Seattle and throughout his high school AAU experiences, Stuckey got plenty of court time with high-end talent.

Among those on his AAU team were Marvin Williams, the No. 2 pick in the 2005 draft; Oregon guard Aaron Brooks, drafted in this year’s first round by Houston; Marcus Williams, a high second-round pick of San Antonio; highly recruited C.J. Giles, who transferred from Kansas to Oregon State; and Gonzaga big man Josh Heytvelt.

Stuckey wasn’t overwhelmed by that level of talent, nor was he uncomfortable not being the clearly dominant force, the role required of him at Eastern Washington, where he averaged right around 25 points a game in each of his two seasons.

“Carrying the load, that’s what I had to do for my team in order for us to win,” he said. “I took on the challenge and I thought I did a pretty good job of doing that. But I’m not really worrying about doing that now because you’ve got guys around me who can play. It’s going to be an easy transition. I played AAU with a bunch of good players and I didn’t really have to do a whole lot, so I’m used to doing both things – carrying the load or not.”

“I think Stuckey is going to be great,” Curry said. “Seeing him in person, the saying is, ‘This kid has done that before.’ When someone has scored the amount of points he scored in college, he knows how to find ways to score the basketball. The beauty of it that I’ve seen so far is he doesn’t appear to be a big-time scorer with some of the habits they have – take bad shots. He takes great shots, gets his teammates involved

“He has a nose for the ball. He probably had more offensive rebounds than anyone here in the first few days of practice. One thing I told him is if you rebound well for a guard, there’s always playing time for you.”

If Stuckey has a forte from what appears a well-rounded resume at this point, it’s his ability to beat the first line of defense and get inside the lane, where his upper-body strength allows him to absorb contact and finish the play, often drawing the foul. If he’s solid in the other areas of the game – as he’s given every indication he will be – then Stuckey will give the Pistons an element they’ve sought the past few seasons: a perimeter player who can break down the defense and create shots for himself.

“He’s strong,” said Jason Maxiell, who came to Las Vegas in large measure to mentor the rookies and start their bonding process with the veteran core. “I love his athleticism, his strength to get to the basket and finish.”

Though the Pistons are likely to go into next season with veteran Lindsey Hunter on the roster – and perhaps Flip Murray, as well – Stuckey’s showing in Las Vegas makes him the heavy favorite to be the primary backup to Chauncey Billups at point guard. That would free the Pistons to use Hunter sparingly as a defensive specialist, though it also appears that Afflalo – whose greater size would make him a better fit against shooting guards than Hunter – could usurp some of that role.

And while there wasn’t much in the way of analysis of Stuckey’s defensive capabilities leading to the draft, Stuckey scoffed when told that on draft night one of the ESPN talking heads said he didn’t show much at that end.

“I didn’t hear that,” he said. “People talk. They can say whatever they want. I’m just going to come in and work hard and prove people wrong, prove to people that I can play defense.”

“He can defend,” Curry said. “He understands concepts – the big part of it is following the rules. The other part is having the desire to compete against a guy and then maybe some intangibles. I think he definitely has the desire. I think he’s definitely shown he can follow a defensive scheme. Now it’s on us as a coaching staff to teach him those intangibles to make him a good defender.”

The only surprises from Rodney Stuckey now would be if he doesn’t become the terrific all-around guard Joe Dumars envisioned long before he made the call to draft him.

“He’s all the things that you’re hearing and seeing,” Dumars said. “We’re not showing up here like, ‘Omigod, we didn’t know.’ ”

But Joe D will go this far in his first-week assessment of Stuckey: It’s good to have all of those things the scouting process suggested affirmed once you get that player in your team’s environment.

“Now that part, yeah, you do want it to translate to what you do as a team.,” he said. “Once you put him in a game setting and start running your plays and put him in your system, that he can show some signs of success, that does make you feel good.”

Maybe even better than good.

The general rule of thumb in summer leagues is you find out who can’t play, not necessarily who can.



the old adage w/ summerleague ball is that you cant find out if someone can play but you can find out if they cant.

http://www.wtfdetroit.com/forums/showpost.php?p=178719&postcount=272

needless to say, my lawyers should have his plagerizing ass on bum row in no time. oh yea, langlois, i caught that.

Though the Pistons are likely to go into next season with veteran Lindsey Hunter on the roster – and perhaps Flip Murray, as well – Stuckey’s showing in Las Vegas makes him the heavy favorite to be the primary backup to Chauncey Billups at point guard.

The fact that that comes from The Propaganda Machine [smilie=punks.gif] Langlois makes me think that it's planting the seed that Flip will indeed be gone.

I take that quote as "we are trying to dump this rat faced bastard, but unfortunately there arent many takers for this crumb cake face fuck."[smilie=peepwall.gi: