NBA Players in the Asian Championships

[durden_tyler]

i was thinking of posting this in their respective team forums but i'd be post padding by then so i thought this belonged to the General Board. Sure sure this is just Asia but for some of this current/former players they are looking to work on their game (Yi) but for some they want to impress as well got get back in the league (SunYu and Ha )

Here are the latest stats after the elimination stages (3 games) i will try to it as the tournament goes along.

Yi Jianlian (New Jersey, China) - 15.5 PPG, on 53.3 FG%, 7.7 RPG



Sun Yue (Free agent, China) - 5.7 PPG, 3.0 RPG, 3.0 APG



Hamed EHadadi (Memphis Grizzlies, Iran) - 12.7 RPG and 9.0 RPG



And of course!...

Ha Seung-Jin(Free agent, South Korea) - 10.3 PPG and 5.3 RPG





There are also of course other players (Jackson Vroman, Matt Freije for Lebanon)

Does this international tournaments help their stock at all? Especially for the likes of Yi who was a lottery pick. Ehadadi and Ha (haha) are tall players so maybe teams would still risk with them?

[sinobball]

Does this international tournaments help their stock at all? Especially for the likes of Yi who was a lottery pick. Ehadadi and Ha (haha) are tall players so maybe teams would still risk with them?

These stats are meaningless especially in the group stage. I don't think the New Jersey Nets give a damn how much Yi scores in a 72-point blowout. Yao Ming scored 0pts in an 88-point win against KSA in 2005.

Also Wang Zhizhi was an ex-NBAer like Vroman and Freije.

[jxuusa]

Ha looks a lot bigger than he was when he was in the league, and looks like he's been hitting the tanning salon too. Against the Philippines he was honestly a bit slow and was getting his points only cause his opponents weren't as tall as him and bounced off his big man boobies. In the D-League he was at least a scrub and probably he isn't even looking to come back to the states. He's living nice and playing well in the KBL, what reason is there to go back to the states and rot in a 2-star hotel every other night and play in venues like Omaha and Albuquerque in front of crowds you can count on one hand.

Sun may be a jack-of-all-trades guy in that he can score a couple points, grab couple boards, and do everything a little bit. That isn't going to help him get back into the NBA, nor is 11% shooting last season. He could have used those 3 easy games in the group play in order to go and show off his true skills. Or is he hoping that he'll step up and save the team against Jordan or Lebanon towards the end of the tournament. He's not going to get called back definately if he keeps playing like he is now, he needs to shoot better and know when to turn it up and help take over, having NBA + D-League experience should have only improved his skills and he hasn't really showed what he learned.

These teams are cupcakes, and the players who are/were in the NBA should be using their skills that they learned to dominate. They were in the NBA for a reason therefore they theoretically should have improved. But probably yeah the NBA scouts could care less about the scoring on teams with the skills of a decent public high school. If they step up and carry their teams though, it can't not attract notice.

Would you consider Liu Wei as an "ex-NBAer" cause he did last a preseason game or two but it was more or less a publicity stunt for Yao Ming's BFF.

[durden_tyler]

These stats are meaningless especially in the group stage. I don't think the New Jersey Nets give a damn how much Yi scores in a 72-point blowout. Yao Ming scored 0pts in an 88-point win against KSA in 2005.

Also Wang Zhizhi was an ex-NBAer like Vroman and Freije.

Yeah, i agree with you that the stats don't hold much weight at this point. Come the knockout stages though i think stats will probably reflect what a player can do against good defenses.

i am especially looking at Yi. He's been traded already in the NBA despite being a lottery pick i think the Nets will be real interested how one of their rebuilding pieces performs at this stage--- being the go-to-guy and all. To an extent that is true with Ehadadi. After all you can't teach height and the NBA wants 7-footers.

[Maximus1984]

I didn't know Ha was in the NBA ...
I don't think the guy deserves to be there ....

among the giant players (Ming, Jianlian, Hadadi) ... he's way off their league.
Hadadi can dribble, and shoot mid-range.
jianlian he's made 3 pointers ... the guy is proving much better than Yao. When Lebanon faced China back in 2005 ... Yao only dunked and did some tip-offs, he never shot from 3's not even fade-aways ... jianlian is much better i believe.

Anyways, now after a few years in the NBA, Yao has done so much progress, eventhough i feel bad about his injury, he will never be back to playing again ... even if he did end of 2010 .... he's not gonna be back to his same potential that's hard luck.

Yi is the new China hero now, he will be the Chinese star in China and the NBA as well.

[BlacKOEIsle]

I didn't know Ha was in the NBA ...
I don't think the guy deserves to be there ....

among the giant players (Ming, Jianlian, Hadadi) ... he's way off their league.
Hadadi can dribble, and shoot mid-range.
jianlian he's made 3 pointers ... the guy is proving much better than Yao. When Lebanon faced China back in 2005 ... Yao only dunked and did some tip-offs, he never shot from 3's not even fade-aways ... jianlian is much better i believe.

Anyways, now after a few years in the NBA, Yao has done so much progress, eventhough i feel bad about his injury, he will never be back to playing again ... even if he did end of 2010 .... he's not gonna be back to his same potential that's hard luck.

Yi is the new China hero now, he will be the Chinese star in China and the NBA as well.

Are you joking?
You'll make 99% of forumers here laugh...