Like I said, last year we had Bell and Miles. What we're talking about here isn't some idiot playing overseas, what we're talking about is a relatively significant upgrade.
Nobody talkin about Dajievic for Shan Foster
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Like I said, last year we had Bell and Miles. What we're talking about here isn't some idiot playing overseas, what we're talking about is a relatively significant upgrade.
You really think this guy is better than Bell or Miles? If he was, he would be in the NBA. This guy could be a good emergency/specialist 3pt shooter, but he isn't a better play than Miles or Bell. If he was even a OK player, he would be able to make a NBA team because of his elite shooting ability.
bjunior
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Well, we'll never know how many "Jeremy Lin" type of guys did not have their chance.
This guy was given a chance. He got drafted and was a part of training camp. Not saying he can't play in the NBA, because he has an elite skill and that is all your really need, but to suggest he is better than Raja Bell or Miles is kind of crazy.
bjunior
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I think you can't suggest that he isn't a better player either, just because he doesn't play in the NBA.
Agree. I think chances of him every contributing anything at NBA level are extremely remote. Still I'd like to see the Jazz bring him to summer league, seeing as how his skill is shooting. But I doubt that's in the cards.
Shan Foster was one of my favorite players when he was in college. I loved his game and his attitude: passionate kid, very confident in his skills, team-oriented guy who really took pride in his squad and his university.
I haven't seen him at all post-Vandy, but I sure thought he'd be a serviceable NBAer back then. Based on the DX writeups and reviews of his summer league stints, it sounds like he's had some issues mentally. If so, I really hope he finds his happy place, and not just because I want to see him productive in a Jazz uni. He just struck me as the kind of person you want to see good things happen for.
I haven't seen him at all post-Vandy, but I sure thought he'd be a serviceable NBAer back then. Based on the DX writeups and reviews of his summer league stints, it sounds like he's had some issues mentally. If so, I really hope he finds his happy place, and not just because I want to see him productive in a Jazz uni. He just struck me as the kind of person you want to see good things happen for.
I think you can. It's not like this guy is in one of the top leagues. He is a role player on a Belgium league team.
theNBAnerd
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i think we are talking about, precisely, some idiot playing overseas.
at best, foster is currently the 5th best player on the 5th best team in the 13th best league in europe.
if he ever gets to wave a towel on an NBA sideline, it will be a huge success. if i ever plays a few minutes in garbage time, i'd be surprised. for him to make the team and get rotation minutes, well that'd require damn near a miracle.
Yes. I remember watching that particular Vandy team beat the snot out of #1 ranked Tennessee on our home court. Foster is a shooter, although I doubt he's really NBA quality.
Stifle Tower
Punch Bowl Re-Filler
Neither is Bell. And if that other "SG" has his shooting stats decline again for the 5th consecutive year he might be lucky to get picked up by a Belgium team and paid in chocolate bars.
I don't really care who the 9th-13th players are on the team. They'll maybe get 5 mins/per in whatever games they play. So Jazz may as well get some specialists. Down by 2 or 3 with time for one shot? Put in Murphy, Foster, Williams, Millsap and Hayward (or Burks). Jazz traded for Korver SPECIFICALLY for end-of-game scenarios because no one else, even Deron, was reliable to make FT's. Yes, Kyle was better than Foster (or Murphy), but point is, this guy has a skill that can be utilized and he won't be whining about minutes. And that's what you need from your end-of bench players.
Besides, I want to see him and Thurl Bailey in concert.
NotDeadYet
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Good points; ya never know when one of those "role-players" will light it up. Gotta pull for the guy to find his mojo in Utah; maybe the altitude will help!
theNBAnerd
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if he was capable of "lighting it up" in the best basketball league on the planet, don't you think he'd be able to light it up in the 13th best league in europe first?
cctrackstar
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Hey, check it out, he's on the team roster according to utahjazz.com (not that that means much, it still shows CJ on the team and he's signed elsewhere)
https://www.nba.com/jazz/roster/2012
Seriously, I really doubt he makes the team from what I've seen, but it does beg the question: Why did the Jazz trade for him in the first place?
https://www.nba.com/jazz/roster/2012
Seriously, I really doubt he makes the team from what I've seen, but it does beg the question: Why did the Jazz trade for him in the first place?
Favors Flave
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He is the next Kobe of course
We had to give up something so we swapped rights of previous draftees.
Coloradojazzfan
Active Member
05.08.2012
"Caneros de la Romana signed Shan Foster. The player spent last season in Belgium with Mons averaging 8.6ppg, 2.8rpg, 1.1spg."
(From some twitter aggregate site).
https://www.latinbasket.com/team.asp?Cntry=Dominican%20Republic&Team=4262&Page=1
"Caneros de la Romana signed Shan Foster. The player spent last season in Belgium with Mons averaging 8.6ppg, 2.8rpg, 1.1spg."
(From some twitter aggregate site).
https://www.latinbasket.com/team.asp?Cntry=Dominican%20Republic&Team=4262&Page=1
Gyp Rosetti
Banned
Nobody's talking about a trade because it involves two guys who may or may not ever set foot on a court in a regular season NBA game.
