Posted by BRIGGS:

i wasnt hot on the choice and he is a real 3-4 tweener who was a 5 man in college. There is just no way at 22-23 that he is going to learn stuff like dribble -drive--just the fluidness of the 3 position. Hes a banger with some explosion, he needs to gainstarength and get rebounds. If thats not the plan, we shouldve taken another young guard like Louis Williams or a higher ceiling player like amir johnson and sat on them.

if u want lee to be shawn marion then we made the wrong choice. right now he has a few intangiables in that he can pass he can rebound well and he has hustle and heart. with exprience he has the potential to be a good player...a different player, but a good player.

Posted by TymeLessKnicks:

Posted by BRIGGS:

i wasnt hot on the choice and he is a real 3-4 tweener who was a 5 man in college. There is just no way at 22-23 that he is going to learn stuff like dribble -drive--just the fluidness of the 3 position. Hes a banger with some explosion, he needs to gainstarength and get rebounds. If thats not the plan, we shouldve taken another young guard like Louis Williams or a higher ceiling player like amir johnson and sat on them.

if u want lee to be shawn marion then we made the wrong choice. right now he has a few intangiables in that he can pass he can rebound well and he has hustle and heart. with exprience he has the potential to be a good player...a different player, but a good player.

i dont want lee to be shawn marion, i dont want him to be a 3. hes no 3 man

Posted by BRIGGS:

i wasnt hot on the choice and he is a real 3-4 tweener who was a 5 man in college. There is just no way at 22-23 that he is going to learn stuff like dribble -drive--just the fluidness of the 3 position. Hes a banger with some explosion, he needs to gainstarength and get rebounds. If thats not the plan, we shouldve taken another young guard like Louis Williams or a higher ceiling player like amir johnson and sat on them.

Your a real piece of work, Lee isn't a tweener, ok. Grow up!

Posted by attaboy2005:

Posted by BRIGGS:

i wasnt hot on the choice and he is a real 3-4 tweener who was a 5 man in college. There is just no way at 22-23 that he is going to learn stuff like dribble -drive--just the fluidness of the 3 position. Hes a banger with some explosion, he needs to gainstarength and get rebounds. If thats not the plan, we shouldve taken another young guard like Louis Williams or a higher ceiling player like amir johnson and sat on them.

Your a real piece of work, Lee isn't a tweener, ok. Grow up!

thats cool, hes a tweener.
he could/should be a 4 man
with added core strength and tad of bodyweight

Posted by BRIGGS:

Posted by martin:

So a guy switches positions from college to the pros, has like 3 games at less than 10 minutes a game and we are convinced? That's about as substantial as saying Bynum sucks cause of the minutes we have seen him play.

the skill sets he needs to be a 3 is just to overwhelming for him to make a change over. He what 6-9 235 or so add 10 pounds add strength and set your goals on becoming a great rebounder who can use his passing skills to ignite the break. go down the rosters of EVERY nba team and look at their 3s, there is NO david lees starting 3 in the nba.

still not convinced, and I wouldn't compare him to other starting 3's, cause, well, I don't know how that helps.

To me he has the off-the-ground explosion and timing ala Rodman, who switched back and forth between the 3 and 4. The question for me is whether or not he has the foot speed to keep up with the other 3's in the league who start. If not, than he best start carving himself towards the PF position. But if he can he would give other 3's fits on the boards.

I think it has been mentioned previously that Lee added weight in college but lost some of the quickness. Maybe the extra weight wasn't put on properly or whatever.

It is a HUGE transition from the 5 to the 3, so we are going to have to give the coaching staff and Lee a lot of leeway.

I see foot quickness and a consistant 15 footer as Lee's stepping stones to solving the 3 spot.

could be that's why we have not seen much of Lee this year. AD/Frye/MoT all getting minutes there. Even Rose for a few. Don't know, but maybe Brown/Isiah has seen something we have not cause this started way back in Summer Camp games.

I still like Lee at the 3-spot. I did see a Shawn Marion highlight and was amazed at how similar bodies they had. Maybe I was tired though.

what's wrong with Lee at the 3?

How is he not just as bad as the other 3's we through out there with Ariza & Q?

And I love the Eduardo Najera comparison- I think we'd be lucky if he turned into that 'kind' of player.

With the way our roster is currently constructed we need a 3 that can actually shoot the ball.