Joel Przybilla rejects offer from Detroit, re-signs with POR

Orlando gave up on Ben for Bo Outlaw. Anybody who says they saw star potential in Ben is flat-out lying or fooling themselves.

Pryzbilla is no less raw then ben was 6 years ago. Yes, he's 7'1," which apparently should be held against him. He's not fast, but he is agile, and he has excellent anticipation, which leads to a lot of offensive rebounds and blocks.

He also averaged more blocks per game than ben wallace in 2006, in 11 fewer minutes per game.

And other than the fact they're both white, he isnt anything like longly, who was a shooter, while Pryzbilla is a much better defender.

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Originally Posted by DPISTONS90

He was young and raw with an upside Pryz has never had. Along with an NBA frame to match his raw skills, and you got fucking UPSIDE there. Pryz relies on his size that is all. Dumars like a lot of people at the time saw a quick, strong, and rising player that needed playing time and polish. is that Pryz at all? When you watch Pryz play his 24 minutes do you see that upside? And so you are saying the Pistons were after outlaw instead of Wallace at the time? Pure fucking bullshit. Pryz is a poor mans Luc Longley and I dont want him playing for the Pistons and no we wont be better with him.

A 6'7" center? Sorry he wasn't a fucking upside guy. He was Michael Sweetney without the offense with athletism. He was considered well below, say, a Steven Hunter. Ben was a throw in to be our 5th big. He turned out well.

Pryz is at a minimum a great 3rd big, and is an average NBA center.

Damn, I love that sig. My best work ever!!!

And anyone who thinks Przybilla can do what ben did is fucking kidding them self.

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Originally Posted by Kstat

Orlando gave up on Ben for Bo Outlaw. Anybody who says they saw star potential in Ben is flat-out lying or fooling themselves.

Pryzbilla is no less raw then ben was 6 years ago. Yes, he's 7'1," which apparently should be held against him. He's not fast, but he is agile, and he has excellent anticipation, which leads to a lot of offensive rebounds and blocks.

He also averaged more blocks per game than ben wallace in 2006, in 11 fewer minutes per game.

God damn, this trade has retarded poor Kstat.
Sorry Kstat, I need to New Jack City you're ass.
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Originally Posted by Anthony

And anyone who thinks Przybilla can do what ben did is fucking kidding them self.

Anyone who said Ben was going to be a 4-time DPOY in 2000 was probably fooling themselves, too.

I'm not saying he's the saem as ben wallace, but at the same point in their careers, they're roughly equal, except pryzbilla is a better shot-blocker at 26, and ben was a better rebounder.

Not star potential dude but a lot more than Pryz. What is more of a commodity a raw quick athletic big man that can jump out of the building or a slow plodding big that just takes up space. Ben was the first and Pryz is the second. So Dumars just got lucky when he got Wallace? No thought process there right?

Ben Stats
YEAR TEAM G GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% OFF DEF RPG APG SPG BPG TO PF PPG
96-97 WAS 34 0 5.8 .348 .000 .300 .7 1.0 1.7 .1 .24 .32 .53 .80 1.1
97-98 WAS 67 16 16.8 .518 .000 .357 1.7 3.2 4.8 .3 .91 1.07 .42 1.70 3.1
98-99 WAS 46 16 26.8 .578 .000 .356 3.0 5.4 8.3 .4 1.09 1.96 .78 2.40 6.0
99-00 ORL 81 81 24.2 .503 .000 .474 2.6 5.6 8.2 .8 .89 1.60 .83 2.00 4.

Outlaw stats
99-00 ORL 82 55 28.4 .602 .000 .506 2.5 3.9 6.4 3.0 1.38 1.80 1.62 2.50 6.0

Read the stats KSTAT and I can see how you felt that Outlaw was chosen over Ben in Orlando. From the time he got his chance in the league, he got better and better. Ben played actually less minutes and still played better. He even started more games than Outlaw so I dont know what the fuck you are talking about at all. And to top it off, Outlaw had been playing what three years already in the leaugue? Your point is bullshit. Dont rationalize the Pryz pick, if it happens it cant be done. When Ben was picked everyone but I guess you saw the upside there, we werent the only team trying to get him, just lucky Hill wanted out and the Magic had the commodity dumars was wanting.

So we go from Ben to Pryz. Wow.

THey could have paid either Outlaw or Ben. They chose to pay Outlaw. It's that simple.

And what, there's no thought process with him going after pryzbilla then?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2389463

if nothing else, I like his attitude:

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The tough part for me is to see guys who don't want to come to practice, who don't want to play in games, that's my biggest thing," Przybilla told The Oregonian newspaper. "Personally, I have no problem playing because I want to play, no matter what. But to see other guys -- I don't know if it's giving up or what -- but we have to finish the season strong. It's our job, we have to be professional, and I don't know if everyone is doing that."

"I'm not the type to complain or point fingers, but it's getting old," he said. "I can take losing if guys are going out and playing hard and giving it their all in practice, but guys aren't doing that."

Funny, ben seemed to have that good boy attitude too.