The New Jersey Nets have signed free agents Ben Uzoh and Brian Zoubek, Nets President Rod Thorn announced today. Per team policy, terms of the agreements were not released. Uzoh, 6’3”/205, was undrafted out of Tulsa. The four-year senior guard averaged 13.8 points, 3.8 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.1 steals in 141 career games, including 140 starts. Uzoh was named First Team All-Conference USA as a senior and Second Team All-Conference USA as a junior and sophomore. The Texas native shares the school record for career games played with 141, while ranking in the top 10 in school history in 11 categories, including points, assists, steals, rebounds and blocks. Zoubek, 7’1”/260, is an undrafted rookie center out of Duke. As a senior, Zoubek played in all 40 contests, helping the Blue Devils capture a National Championship while averaging 5.6 points and 7.7 rebounds on .638 (90-141) shooting from the field. For his career, the New Jersey native averaged 4.2 points and 4.5 rebounds in 133 games, which included started in 37 contests.

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Paladin55 wrote:Did the Nets have a mini-camp already?

I know we had both of them in. I thought we liked Zoubek, never heard anything about Uzoh.

I would have picked up Torrance and Randle for our SL team as soon as the draft was over.

Does Zoubek expect to be a permanent backup, by the way. Neither he or Lopez are quick enough to play PF. Assuming that the Knicks were actually interested in Zoubek, he would have an opportunity to play pretty decent minutes with the Knicks along with Jordan- surprised that he would come to a team to play with an established young center, supposedly a franchise center, who is all of 5 days older than he is.

With the undrafted FA centers that are slated to play summer ball, I like AJ Ogilvy the best.. Somewhere around 6'11"/7' 250+ lbs, he pretty big, he plays hard and has some nice offense skills. I think this kid is more skilled than Zoubek myself. I know Chicago invited him to be part of their summer league team...I actually think this kid could be something close to Brad Miller/Spencer Hawes/Nenad Krstic. Ogilvy/Jerome Jordan wouldn't be a bad 7 footer combination to add to our mix.

I just hope the Knicks have their eyes open and are looking...

Finestrg wrote:

Paladin55 wrote:Did the Nets have a mini-camp already?

I know we had both of them in. I thought we liked Zoubek, never heard anything about Uzoh.

I would have picked up Torrance and Randle for our SL team as soon as the draft was over.

Does Zoubek expect to be a permanent backup, by the way. Neither he or Lopez are quick enough to play PF. Assuming that the Knicks were actually interested in Zoubek, he would have an opportunity to play pretty decent minutes with the Knicks along with Jordan- surprised that he would come to a team to play with an established young center, supposedly a franchise center, who is all of 5 days older than he is.

With the undrafted FA centers that are slated to play summer ball, I like AJ Ogilvy the best.. Somewhere around 6'11"/7' 250+ lbs, he plays hard and has some nice offense skills. I think this kid is more skilled than Zoubek myself. I know Chicago invited him to be part of their summer league team...I actually think this kid could be something close to Brad Miller/Spencer Hawes/Nenad Krstic. Ogilvy/Jerome Jordan wouldn't be a bad 7 footer combination to add to our mix.

We seemed to go after PFs- Garcia, Lyons, Washington. I don't really count Carroll- seems like filler to me, but who knows.

Hopefully there are some foreign players we looked at when Donnie and MDA went overseas who we invite in. I would like to have a few folks, under contract to the Knicks, playing for us in the DL this year. Have 12 guys travel with the Knicks and 3 in the DL, playing together on the same team.

Shved, the tall skinny PG, and Ohlbrecht (SP), a German PF/C once touted as the next Dirk (years ago), but now a question mark, are two guys I would like to see on our SL roster, if only to satisfy my curiosity about them.