“Paul Harris may have helped himself the most I thought here. He plays so hard. He got in everyone’s face. No one wanted to go against him. On offense and defense. On top of that, his measurements were ridiculous. He came up a bit shorter than expected—only 6-3 in shoes, but his wingspan is outrageous—6-11 ½. He’s also absolutely jacked at 237 pounds, all 100% muscle. On top of that, he measured a no step vertical of 36 inches, which is off the charts. He’s like Ron Artest.

“Chase Budinger was awful in my opinion. He just doesn’t play. All he wants to do is shoot jumpers. That’s not basketball. He didn’t want to be there. Didn’t want to compete. He couldn’t put it on the floor. You should have seen his face when he was switched onto Paul Harris. He definitely didn’t want anything to do with him. “



This is the type of player we need--obviously not at 8 but this type of mentality. Forget Blair--hopefully we can get Harris later on or if he is not drafted. We need toughness. This team is like a bunch of chickens and everyone here knows it.

You're right on the $$. This goes along with my Austin Daye post.

he won't be drafted - he'd make a good bench player for certain situations
might make more $ in Europe though
http://priorityonejets.com

Posted by purple012870:

He's basically Shannon Brown. But a good bench/developmental guy.

He's one of those guys will get drafted by the Miami Heat and end up being an impact player and better than 75% of players picked in round 1.

briggs, why do you have john wallace in the subject? b/c they both went to cuse? wallace sucked in the NBA. (though he was great in he got game).

Posted by BigSm00th:

briggs, why do you have john wallace in the subject? b/c they both went to cuse? wallace sucked in the NBA. (though he was great in he got game).

I was giving a shout out to the poster john wallace

As to the player--Paul Harris is the kind of guy that gets disregarded because he cant do certain things but what he does bring to the table are some qualities that help teams win games. I wrote down awhile ago that we should pick him up for the SL team with Morris Almond but he might just be worthy of a pick around 47-57 if we can get one on the absolute cheap. He is obviously one of the top 3 athletes in the draft--he is made for uptempo games--he is mentally and physically tough and can defend with power athleticism and intimidation. I saw it the second he was playing his freshmen year---players from opposing teams are fearful of him. I just think we need that element back on this team. Thats what a lot of Knick fans associate with--defense rebounding intimidation but what Paul Harris can do is also play uptempo basketball. He's the kind of guy you want on your team. He's not going to be hitting 7 three's but hes a guy you canb bring off the bench and put on the opposing 2-3 man who is going off on you--bring in the D and the energy--make other guys on the team go harder.