Just say no to Huertas. He's been declining for the past 3 seasons. He has always been unatletic and a poor defender, but right now he would be THE WORST defender in the League. And no, i'm not being hard on him. I'm brazilian, loved the guy, he was lots of fun to watch for our NT. His defence was always terrible, even at FIBA basketball, but he kinda made it up offensively. The problem is that not only his defence got worse somehow, but his offensive game also looks like **** right now. He lost a couple of steps and it is showing. He began the last 2 or 3 seasons as a starter and ended as a bench player on all of them due to his decline offensively and being one if not THE worst defender in Europe.
Victor Sada, a journeyman spanish that plays decent defense and is nule offensively took his starting spot a couple seasons ago, and Satoransky, a prospect who used to be a SG was moved to PG and took his minutes this season.
Even in the World Cup with the Brazilian NT he started to lose his minutes for Raul Neto, who currently is already better than Huertas. The only reason behind Huertas keeping his starting spot on the National Team is 'cause he's the captain and one of the favourites of our coach. But if you watch all Brazil's games in the last World Cup you'll see that the team was better with Raul playing.
There's a reason why Barcelona let him go, and already signed Carlos Arroyo, there's a reason why he hasn't signed with an NBA team (actually i haven't heard of any NBA team interested in him) and there's a reason why just Galatasaray offered him a contract in Europe. The reason is: he's declining fast, he can't defend a chair, if he wanted the NBA so much he should've tried a contract 6 years ago, when he was in his prime. Now it's too late.
Victor Sada, a journeyman spanish that plays decent defense and is nule offensively took his starting spot a couple seasons ago, and Satoransky, a prospect who used to be a SG was moved to PG and took his minutes this season.
Even in the World Cup with the Brazilian NT he started to lose his minutes for Raul Neto, who currently is already better than Huertas. The only reason behind Huertas keeping his starting spot on the National Team is 'cause he's the captain and one of the favourites of our coach. But if you watch all Brazil's games in the last World Cup you'll see that the team was better with Raul playing.
There's a reason why Barcelona let him go, and already signed Carlos Arroyo, there's a reason why he hasn't signed with an NBA team (actually i haven't heard of any NBA team interested in him) and there's a reason why just Galatasaray offered him a contract in Europe. The reason is: he's declining fast, he can't defend a chair, if he wanted the NBA so much he should've tried a contract 6 years ago, when he was in his prime. Now it's too late.