Jun 29, 2011

6/29/2011 01:23:00 PM
It must be agonizing to the point when you have that gut feeling and your AGENT is telling you it's a SALM DUNK and then your name goes middle to late 2nd Round an still have not heard anything.

The Phone rings and it's your agent telling you if you don't get called in the last 10 Picks we will have to go to the UNDRAFTED Free Agent Route. What's the UNDRAFTED Free Agent Route?

Any TEAM can call you an invite you to their camp with no TIES anywhere to that respective team such as a Guaranteed or Non-Guaranteed Contract. And as weak as the 2011 NBA Draft was 2 names stuck out like a SORE THUMB and the BLUEDUDE digs DEEp to get his INFO......REAL DEEP.

Let's meet and greet the My Top 2 Undrafted Free Agents and the rest of the LIST:

David LIGHTY 6'6" 215 Lb Big Guard/Small Forward from the OHIO STATE UNiversity: If you would have told me LIGHTY was a 2nd Round pick I would have said ok within the first 5 2nd Round Picks. But to go Undrafted and some of the names that went on the Board in front of him........Unexplainable.

A 4-Year Player at O STATE and he came in TOP 50 in High School in the Country....His Freshman Class at O STATE......DeQuan COOK Dayton DUNBAR OH HS, Greg ODEN and Mike CONLEY JR. Indianapolis Lawrence North HS....LIGHTY was #4 on that List......and it was the #1 Recrutiing Class in the Country that year.

A Wing Forward by trade his game has come full circle and he is a LOCKDOWN Defender. Can shoot it from the NCAA ARC, can get to the RIM, and can create a bit off the BOUNCE. He will initially make his living DEFENDING like most NBA Rookies but he is NBA READY and will surprise some FOLKS in CAMP. This Guy was on everybody's MOCK DRAFT LIST...I mean Everybody.

As of TODAY LIGHTY reportedly turned heads at the Atlanta HAWKS CAMP and before the CBA Expires has been contacted by the CAVS, PISTONS, and SPURS also.

NOTE*****Ohio STATE Teammate SG Jon DIEBLER was drafted 2nd Round by the Portland Trailblazers an he is a KNOCKDOWN SHOOTER and that's it......a Poor Man's Kyle KORVER.....very one dimensional.

The BUTLER BULLDOGS have had a run like no other in College Basketball in recent memory and in large part to Head Man BRAD STEVENS an also having players like Gordon HEYWARD and Shelvin MACK.....1st and a 2nd rounder respectively. But look close they also had a BIG that should have been a 2nd Rounder as well.

Enter Center Matt HOWARD of the BULLDOGS. At 6'8" and 230 EL BEES he is as Fundamental as they get with limited range from 15 and in. But a BLue-Collar WORKHORSE that anchored the BULLDOGS Defense.

Just like aforementioned LIGHTY, HOWARD sat on his couch as well with NO PHONE CALL. He is set to go the Free-Agent route and is working out for teams like HAWKS and SPURS and he will find a FIT as soon as the NEW CBA is Agreed upon.

I like HOWARD to another undrafted Guy from the STATE of INDIANA nad is going into his 14th Season.......Purdue's BRAD MILLER. I am also confident that HOWARD can stretch his game eventually out to the NBA 3pt ARC.

The TOP Undrafted Players in the 2011 NBA Draft

Demetri McCamey ILLINOIS PG All-Big TEn 2 years in a row HS Teammate of SIXERS Evan TURNER Best Undrafted PLAYER
Rick JACKSON Syracuse C 2010 Big East Defensive POY
Jamie SKEEN VCU PF Very Good run in NCAA Tourney Former Freshman ALL-ACC at Wake FOREST
Malcolm THOMAS SDSU Athletic SF/PF......too athletic to not make a ROSTER somewhere played off of Kahwhi LEONARD
Jacob PULLEN Kansas STATE PG led the WILDCATS to Respectablity in BIG 12.....from Famous Proviso EAST HS in CHI CITY
Scotty HOPSON Tennessee SF A talented guy who never got it rolling in ROCKY TOP.......Needs some developement

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