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Should Cody spend time in the G LEAGUE

Should Cody Williams get sent down to the Stars for a stint?

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First the regular disclaimer - too early, yada-yada...

I was lower on Cody than most here, but at the end I think peer pressure made me move him up to about where we picked him. I think it was a mistake on my part. Pretty much everything I was worried about with him has turned out to be a real problem in the league as well. And while some of the things I was worried about have a reasonable chance of getting better(he might fill out his body, might get stronger...), the biggest worry for me when I watched him in college was just how passive he was. I think it's incredibly hard to change that part of a player's game at a higher level when he wasn't able to do it at lower levels. Just way too many leaps to be made and it's too hard to do when in pro sports, teams have to juggle priorities that are very far from making the 10th pick more aggressive and investing the reps to make a meaningful progress when there are 15 other players on the team that demand their own minutes and attention. And to add to it... it's not as simple as just making him more aggressive... you have to develop his skills and his body for this forced aggression to actually materialize into something positive for the team.

So in light of that, I think him spending time in the GLeague is a good decision at this point. But I still am not sure that I see much of any progress right now. I guess, lets hope with time and reps he gets better... not much else we can do...
 
HadAnEffectHere said:
? John Hollinger writes for The Athletic and compared Cody to Ziaire Williams and was one of the only people to point out that Cody's jumpshot was terrible.
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John Hollinger is extremely established and is not engaged in the draft hype mill (whereby people gain access to prospects and their teams by creating a bunch of puff content, a la No Ceilings, and people who are negative are shut out of access when they fail to felate prospect X). This is what happened to Bill Simmons’ relationship with ESPN (I’m sure among other things, but they did NOT like his draft comments because they didn’t want him damaging relationships with agencies and the like).
 
I saw an interesting blurb that Frank Kaminisky is going to play for the Raptors GLeague team. Frank the Tank was a lottery selection in 2015. If you look at the 2015 first round selections there were a bunch of epic fails in that draft. It happens.
 
I remember watching Bryon Russell and Jamie Watson work out together at the Deseret Gym way back when I was a pup. Those guys could barely hit the side of the backboard on a mid-range jumper. Russell became a reliable shooter after a few years. It can be done. I just don't think Cody has worked on that part of his game that much.
 
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