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It Might Be Time to Go Dumpster Diving

My favorite story from these roster cuts is, it seems Luis Montero will make the Trailblazers 15-man squad. For those totally unfamiliar with his story, he's certainly taken a unique route to the league. Last played for Weschester Community College in 2013-2014, a college that was probed by New York State, was found to be forging transcripts, and so they cancelled their 2014-2015 season. Montero was set to transfer to USF, but his credits were probably falsified, and he was stuck, but had some 2nd round draft hype.

Also when Montero first showed up in the US, at 19, he was pretending to be much younger... From the DR.
 
stitches said:
Holmes and Upshaw were waived. Is it worth taking a flyer on one of them?

Also the Clippers are still to make a their final cut and Branden Dawson might be one of the players getting cut. I think I'd sacrifice Chris Johnson for him.
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Based on basketball alone, Upshaw's worth taking a flier on.. Holmes is kinda redundant with Lyles.. C's take the longest to develop and Upshaw's clearly got plenty of upside.. I know he lost 20lbs for the Lakers, and their hoping he clears waivers to stash him in the d-league..

They've said he needs plenty of work on offense and defense to see the floor... He's certainly a better project than Robert Sacre though.. I think he might be a better project than Pleiss, surely on a risk/reward basis.
 
PG_AB said:
Based on basketball alone, Upshaw's worth taking a flier on.. Holmes is kinda redundant with Lyles.. C's take the longest to develop and Upshaw's clearly got plenty of upside.. I know he lost 20lbs for the Lakers, and their hoping he clears waivers to stash him in the d-league..

They've said he needs plenty of work on offense and defense to see the floor... He's certainly a better project than Robert Sacre though.. I think he might be a better project than Pleiss, surely on a risk/reward basis.
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Upshaw is very much better than Sacre, off-court stuff is the reason he got cut. He's always had issues, I think he got kicked of Fresno State teams and Washington teams at the college level.
 
I hear that Carlos Boozer guy has a decent high post game and could give Lyles son tips on nba defense at the power forward.
 
Bo Mcalleb was waived. He was big time in Europe but is up there in age now, but may be worth a look. PG position is the actual position where we could use some help.
 
NCJazz said:
Bo Mcalleb was waived. He was big time in Europe but is up there in age now, but may be worth a look. PG position is the actual position where we could use some help.
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He was waived from a team that needs more PG help than we do.
 
Perry Jones III is interesting. Denver waived Nick Johnson and Kostas Papanikolaou too.

Chuck Hayes and Samuel Dalembert if you want vets
 
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