I hope that RW learns how to stay in front of the CP3 types.

@Joe
That’s pretty much how I’ve heard of it being done, have two players go against each other in workouts to judge relative strengths and weaknesses.

You know what happens sometimes with these workouts is that the GM starts setting up workouts with groups of guys so he can see how they do up close and personal. For example, lets say Presti is interested in getting a good look at Stephen Curry. Curry’s agent realizes that Curry will go in the range where the Thunder are drafting. So he sends Curry down to OKC on the 15th. Then Presti brings in a guy who he is only somewhat curious about (like somebody for the summer league or for the Tulsa 66ers, somebody he won’t likely use a draft pick on) and has him work out with Stephen. He gets a chance to see how Stephen will work in isolations and coming off curls and such with Hasbrouck all up in his grill.

I’m just speculating. I don’t really know that this is how it will work. Some agents for top tier guys won’t let their guys work out against lower competition because it may make their guy look bad. If I were the agent for Jordan Hill, I wouldn’t want him to workout against DeJuan Blair, because Blair is probably twice as strong and will toss him around. But If I’m Blairs agent, I want him to get a chance to workout against the Thabeets and the Hills because he’s got nowhere to go but up.

Our two good perimeter defenders are Weaver and Thabo, who are both 6’6 or 6’7″. We needed somebody who can consistently stay in front of those small fast guys like Leandro Barbosa, Jason Terry and Chris Paul types. Those guys under six three or so who are really fast on the drive or getting to their spots.

Judging by Hasbroucks underwhelming offense, maybe Presti is looking to have somebody who fills that niche. Lord knows Chucky couldn’t do it, and Earl can’t do it anymore, and Westbrook seemed like he played better D on the bigger types of guys that he could use his strength on.

Honestly, from what little I did see of him this year (OSU, Niagara, Niagara, OSU and Louisville), he seems to me to be a poor man’s Kyle Weaver…which is fine, but unless he has a lot more upside than I’ve seen, he seems like a solid 9 or 10 man used primarily for defensive purposes on an NBA roster. Toss in the fact that his FG%, 3PT% and even FT% all went DOWN his Junior and Senior years from his Freshman(Siena did schedule tougher competition but that just confirms some of my fears) and that 9 or 10 man role seems pretty accurate. Just my opinion from a very, very limited sample size though. I could very easily be wrong.

@Nix
And you might be confusing Hasbrouck with someone else, since I only think he had one 30pt game in his senior year and that was against lowly St. Peter’s in the MAAC. And Hasbrouck didn’t break the 13 point barrier in the NCAA tournament (12 and 11 points in his games).