Prospects “Love” D’Antoni’s System

by Tommy Dee on May 30th, 2008 at 8:54 am

Alan Hahn is in Orlando getting a feel for what direction the Knicks may go with the sixth pick and he notices Donnie Walsh is “purposely all over the place.”

More importantly, Hahn has talked to several top talents and to a man each seemed very gitty about the idea of playing in D’Antoni’s system.

Got to know several players in the meet-and-greet on Thursday here. Really like Jerryd Bayless’ directness and confidence (“You won’t find a player in the universe more competitve than me,” he said). Michael Beasley will be a great personality in the NBA, very warm-and-fuzzy kind of guy. OJ Mayo did a lot of “Yes, sir” and “No, sir” with his responses and stayed consistent, even through some tough questions about his agent controversy. Derrick Rose already carries himself like a superstar, but not in an arrogant way. Just in thay way that tells you he knows what he is and what he is about to be.

Kevin Love was very talkative. And the one thing I got from each of them is a huge smile whenever the words “Mike D’Antoni’s system” were mentioned.

If for no other reason, D’Antoni’s hire has caught the attention of players, which is a complete 180 from playing for Isiah Thomas, which can only be a good thing. It makes you think that if Walsh can wheel and deal, and make changes like adding a shooter and a shot blocker, things may turn around rather quickly at 2 Penn Plaza.
  • theghostofwillisreed

    kevin love can love it all he wants but actually being able to keep up in it is a different story altogether. the guy has eric montross written all over him.

  • casey s.

    what about eric gordon from indiana?

  • theghostofwillisreed

    i don’t know if you’re commenting to me or the blog at large but personally i’m not high on erci gordon. his performance severely dropped off once kelvin sampson got fired and he was m.i.a. at the ncaa.

    he should have stayed another year.

  • casey s.

    i was just throwing it out there. i would think it would be hard for any player to focus through and after the sampson scandal.

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