Joel Bolomboy

[Getting Traded]

yawn

Well, it is true. I'm not from Utah, so maybe you guys from Utah who had seen him play in college already knew about him. But most of the people like me who never saw him before thought he was awful after that first game.

 

[NAOS]

:rolls eyes:

 

[RandyForRubio]

Everyone laughed at me when I said I saw a lot of potential in him during summer league ... guess I'm getting the last laughs.

We laughed bc you said he could be a mini-Mailman. It was, and still is, a ludicrous statement.

 

[Deleted member 848]

the LoGrade and Eenie4u dogpiling in the am has resulted in a good start to the day for me

 

[Stoked]

Reviewed that thread. No one laughed at you. One person said you may be getting ahead of yourself when you called him Mailman light.

That was me. And all I intended was for him to slow down the hype train.

 

[Boris]

Is this are d-league player thread? Who is Bolomboy? Never heard of him.

 

[RandyForRubio]

If they don't play "Ballin Boy" every time he does something good, then our media team has failed. I'd link the video, but that wouldn't go over well.

 

[Getting Traded]

Well, I will go out on a limb now and say Ballin Boy will at least be a regular rotation player by his third season. I have a "feeling," though, call it intuition that he's going to be a lot better than that. He's very raw and based on the interview with Locke (Locke sure did a terrible interview) sounds like a kid. Be good if the Mailman took him in tow. Looked up the Mailman's stats his rookie season: 15-9 and .481 FT percentage. No, he's not going to make those numbers this year - lol. Who knows how much he will even play -- depends on injuries and if he moves ahead of Withey on the depth chart.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Can he play small ball 5?



I don't believe Evans ever put up numbers. He was athletic but that was about it. Even in college he couldn't rebound. That's a significant advantage over Evans that Bolomboy has. I'm also assuming he's a lot tougher/stronger.

Evans had strong numbers and a really high PER because he would rebound and dunk (which has value). His feel for the game and other skills combined with his inability to get strong enough hurt him. Bolomboy will certainly add strength so that is not a limitation. I was more referring to the fact that he can do some cool stuff and will play hard but may never put enough of it together.

Yes I think he becomes a 5... if he rebounds/defends/and dunks... I could see him as a great compliment to Lyles.

 

[VINYLONE]

Everyone laughed at me when I said I saw a lot of potential in him during summer league ... guess I'm getting the last laughs.

Let's be intellectually honest here. The reason a lot of people lambasted you is because, I believe, you called him Mailman lite. That's soooo laughable and ludicrous admin should have given you a tempo-ban just for thinking that.

 

[Getting Traded]

Let's be intellectually honest here. The reason a lot of people lambasted you is because, I believe, you called him Mailman lite. That's soooo laughable and ludicrous admin should have given you a tempo-ban just for thinking that.

I never said he was, but that he resembled the Mailman physically and that he "could become" Mailman Lite. I never said he was, and I did say that after the first summer league game when he was horrible and I had never seen him play before. So, I think I made a fairly good evaluation in that I did see the potential that his play did not demonstrate.