Looks like Erick Green will be signing an NBA contract with the Nuggets:
http://www.denverstiffs.com/2014/7/23/5931581/report-denver-nuggets-to-s...
Good luck Erick!
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Awesome news. Good for him.
Nate Robinson is a workout freak so being teammates with him can't hurt.
excuse my ignorance of the NBA, but from reading the article it says he is the 14th player and they are expecting to sign a 15th in the next couple of days.... how big of a roster do the NBA teams carry? and do they have a practice squad, or how does that work?
They have 15 players on the roster. There are not practice squads like the NFL. They have the NBDL (Development League) and occasionally pull players from overseas when they need to fill a roster spot. Players in the NBDL are closer and more available for call up, but the income is tiny. Overseas, the players can get six figures, but the bounce back to the NBA is more challenging.
Just to add:
1) A team does have 15 players on their roster however a team only has 12 players on their active roster (meaning that a team can only use 12 players in a single game). If a team has 15 players, 3 of their players are on their inactive roster (which includes injured players).
2) Players from the inactive roster can be move to a team's NBDL's affiliate for extended periods of time. This usually happens when a young player is having difficulty getting playing time with the parent club and the organization wants him to get some playing experience at a lower level.
3) Teams can "draft-and-stash" players which means they can draft a player and if he subsequently plays overseas that year, the team has exclusive rights if they want to sign him to a NBA contract. This is what happen with Green. The Nuggets had too many contracts in 2013 so they told Green to play in Europe for a year. Once he finished his contract, they signed him to a NBA deal.
Congrats to Erick Green! Hope to see him make the team.
Read he'll be the teams 3rd PG. Do they ever get any real PT?
Not a ton, but it's a long season and players tend to get hurt so I wouldn't be surprised if Lawson or Robinson sit out a couple games. Also, the Nuggets aren't very good so he might be used in some situations as a 2-guard to get some quick scoring. Never when they're up though, he's still kinda small for defense.
Always be ready.
Ask Mark Leal about that one.
No - ask the coaches why they refused to play Mark Leal in any games prior to make sure he was ready. Point the finger at the guilty parties, not at Mark Leal.
Maybe because Mark Leal isn't the QB that many fans thought him to be? He looked WAAAAAY over his head during the UCLA game. Much, much moreso than you'd expect out of a RS-Jr who has had 4 years of practice and mop up duties. There's a reason you're not even hearing his name as a contender anymore for the starting spot at QB this fall, when his competition is a bunch of freshmen and a transfer. At a certain point, you can't blame the coaches for that.
Bingo, it's nobody's fault. He just doesn't look like he's good enough. Can't pin that on him or the coaches honestly. It's just what happened.
Not disagreeing, but his mop up time was nonexistent behind Thomas, even when Thomas struggled or we cruised in games. Also, baptism under fire of a bowl game doesn't mean the guy could not grow into the job, just that this was his first shot. Is he not talented enough? Possibly. Is he too discouraged at the arc of his career to put 100% into it? Possibly. Did circumstances play against him during the last 4 years? Certainly. He could be a Grant Noel-level QB(decent, but not much more) that the coaches just don't want to 'waste' one year on, to be cold about it. Fact is - he never played hardly ANY prior to the UCLA game, and I think people that label him as a result are not looking at the full circumstances. As for his talent level, there's no way to know because we've never seen enough of him to tell, except one bowl game when the coaches only turned to him out of desperation. I've always been a propronent of giving the backup QB playing time exponentially more than Beamer doles out, and the UCLA game proof of the merit for doing just that. I was never a Leal fan, but I think labeling him because of the UCLA game isn't right. That's all.
What game would you have played Leal in this past season that he wasn't put in the game?
Judging from the way he played against UCLA, the coaches would have been crucified if we put him in any of the games where LT struggled.
But it might have shut the "PUT LEAL IN" cries up a little bit earlier...
Coaches get paid to ignore this type of thing.
Maybe the exception, not the rule, but this is a guy who was a back up QB, and probably no one expected him to play much...then Aaron Rodgers gets injured, and he comes in and he was READY TO PLAY, and rocked it.
Even if you're the back up...you have to be ready at all times, and Leal showed he wasn't ready.
Add Matt Cassel to that list when Brady went down that year.
And that's all I was saying when I brought Leal up in the first place.
He rocked it into an absurd (even as it was happening) contract. Then got displaced by a rookie in training camp; so I guess that week 16 win was his high water mark before he came back down to earch. Not sure this is the example.
Maybe Brady's ability to prepare and be ready to fill in for Drew Bledsoe would be better. Because, you know, Brady has talent and has done alright since.
Regardless of what happened afterward, the point was, that he was ready to play, and play well. There's a reason some people are backups and not the starter...but you have to rely on the back up to play well enough when needed, otherwise you need a new backup.
We're actually having this discussion in 2016? In a thread about Eric Green?
Technically, no. That was posted over a year ago.
N e v e r m i n d. . .
Last year, the Hokies had to go to OT to beat Marshall, and they lost to Duke/Maryland at home. Seems to me that mop-up opportunities were as scarce as hen's teeth.
In what games would he have played, besides our 1-AA warm-up (in which he did play)? Most of our games were too close to take LT out of.
You would have preferred the coaching staff play Leal without rhyme or reason just like the Hoos randomly switched between Watford and Lambert?
I surely remember a play vs Miami where Logan had to come in..not to mention he threw a bullet to Danny Coale for a 15-20 yard 1st down.. That's being prepared for that what if moment..
And to your point- when would we have put Leal in and for what reason? New O-coach/coordinator we needed all the reps we could get last year at full game speed.
Because LT and our offense were lighting it up before Leal came in?
A couple of times.
Random thought directed to BlueRidge HooH8R: you have the best signature of all time. That is all
Word is that NBA 2k15 just received it's win everything button.
No matter what may come....the guy deserves the opportunity to prove himself in the NBA. I think the kid is a great talent who definitely knows how to put the ball in the hoop but hopefully some time in euro ball has rounded out his game as a point guard.
On the one hand, he wouldn't be where he is were it not for the carrying the entire Virginia Tech team on his shoulders (and hard work and dedication, have to give credit where it is due). On the other hand, that taught him some anti point guard kind of lessons and that is hard to come back from after four years.
Either way good luck to him.
Good stuff, one of my favorite players over the last decade or so. Too bad he went to denver though, would be nicer to see him playing for a team where he has a better chance or logging some real playing time...
I know this forum is mad stale but I'm new to this site and just found the basketball stuff so here we go. I think Erick can and will log some serious minutes with the Nuggets this year. Denver is known for their outside shooting touch, and we all know E Green can put up points in a hurry. They're also coming off a pretty disappointing year, so they'll be shaking it up I would guess. The offseason move to grab Afflalo will put a dent in his minutes, but it's not like they have amazing depth at the guard position. Agree with whoever said they'll probably try to use him more at the 2, which is his natural position anyways. I like to think of him as the Stephen Curry of the 2012 Hokies team: they listed him at PG, but how many PGs lead the nation in scoring every year? The guy screams SG. I don't agree with the point that he's undersized. Most guards in the league are around the 6'3-6'4 range so I think he can really contribute defensively as well. He's fast as lightning so not having cinderblocks for feet definitely helps. Anyways, hope he has a breakout year and I only wish he was playing closer to home with the Zards. What a dirty backcourt that could be
Happy for him. I know he will work hard and show the team he is a valuable asset.
Saw this link showing Erick's stats in the summer league.
Eric Green signed a 3 year contract to play for the Nuggets.
2.3 million dollars (only part of it is guarateed) and he credits the European league for helping him raise his game, up 9.3 points in the summer league from last year's stats.
This is awesome. He's one of my recent Hokie hoops favorites
Sadly, there haven't been many to choose from. I miss the golden days of the Big Three including Delaney, Allen and Hudson. Even though that group never made it to the big dance, they played their butts off night in and night out. Glad we got Buzz but firing Seth looks like a huge mistake right about now. Of course hindsight helps too
How is it a mistake now? If we hadn't of fired him, Buzz would not be here right now. I don't know about you, but I would much rather have Buzz than Greenberg.
The manner in which Greenberg was fired was inexcusably bad, and a stain on both Weaver and Hokie basketball in general. However, you should not think of it as a mistake. You should instead realize that we have now arrived at a much better place than we would have attained under Greenberg.
Greenberg built up our program, but reached something of a glass ceiling. He was never going to receive the funding necessary under Weaver to take the program higher. After his dismissal, we got the woefully inadequate Johnson for all the wrong reasons. That helped move out Weaver quicker than normal, and the changes resulted.
Because of the timing, we now have a fantastic young and innovative Athletic Director as well as a highly energetic and hard edged basketball coach that has proven he can succeed at the very highest levels. Essentially, we went through the valley of death so we could emerge in this very promising position. That doesn't make any of the path 'right', but at least we made it.
I think this is worth digging up an old thread about Erick Green. He played well at the D-League Showcase two days ago. https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/five-players-who-showed-out-at-the...
EDIT: I found some highlights from the Showcase.
That stat line is just sick. 28 points on 54 percent shooting and 48 percent from three? Yeah, he will be on an NBA team sooner rather than later.
His offense was never his problem though, it was the defensive side that made him a liability. But then again, there are players like James Harden in the league so maybe that doesn't even matter.
That J is looking as sweet as ever
The Wiz need to take action!
They have no space or necessity to bring in Erick. They would have to cut their lowest payed player to bring in Erick, and that player would be Jarell Eddie
With Goran Dragic out for the foreseeable future, I would like to see the Heat pick up another ballhandler.
Utah Jazz sign Erick Green to 10-day contract:
NBA.com
It looks like Erick Green treats calls from unknown numbers about the same way I do
Link to story
Looks like Erick Green registered his first points last night with the Jazz...
Erick Green named 2016 NBA D-League All-Star
Not sure if his stint with Utah will keep him from the game (beyond the 10-day contract?), but if ineligibility means he's still on an NBA roster, I'm sure he won't mind.
OT: He's got a sister who can shoot the deep ball.
His sister was part of a team that won like 76 straight games in high school. They were like the uconn of Virginia state basketball it was insane