New Poll: Everything Valanciunas - 2nd Team All-Rooke Selection.

[Mediumcore]

A lithuanian basketball site wrote that JV has set a personal goal for the season: to win the ROY trophy. I'm not sure it's really realistic though, but then again, aim for the stars if you fall short you will still land on the moon

I beleive he is currently ranked 5th in nba.com's rookie ladder. Ahead of him are Lillard, and A. Davis along with a couple of second round guys. If JV can move up past them into the 3rd spot on the ladder it could be a dog fight for the number 1 spot between those three. Obviously it's so early in the season, but all three are starters on their respective teams.

[Puffer]

I beleive he is currently ranked 5th in nba.com's rookie ladder....

Not going to be there long. :-)

[Jclaw]

“I did double-double?” he asked, when told of his accomplishment. “Great, but it’s more important that our team wins or doesn’t win. It’s not enough, then.” He paused, then added, “maybe I should do triple-double?”


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...rticle4808484/

[Raptor_11]

“I did double-double?” he asked, when told of his accomplishment. “Great, but it’s more important that our team wins or doesn’t win. It’s not enough, then.” He paused, then added, “maybe I should do triple-double?”


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...rticle4808484/

HAHA I love his interviews!

[Nilanka]

“I did double-double?” he asked, when told of his accomplishment. “Great, but it’s more important that our team wins or doesn’t win. It’s not enough, then.” He paused, then added, “maybe I should do triple-double?”


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...rticle4808484/

lol, awesome.

[RAPresenting]

Was anyone else surprised how aggressive JV was offensively? Wouldn't have guessed he'd have taken 15 shots before the game.

[slaw]

Was anyone else surprised how aggressive JV was offensively? Wouldn't have guessed he'd have taken 15 shots before the game.

Thing is, they weren't bad shots. A couple were on those alley oops which probably shouldn't have even counted as attempts. The jumpers were all wide open, elbow shots in the rhythmn of the offence. He has to take those. It's not like he missed everything outside of two feet. The only questionable shot was the wild hook of the OffReb that he airballed. Otherwise, he did fine.

[RandomGuy]

[RAPresenting]

Thing is, they weren't bad shots. A couple were on those alley oops which probably shouldn't have even counted as attempts. The jumpers were all wide open, elbow shots in the rhythmn of the offence. He has to take those. It's not like he missed everything outside of two feet. The only questionable shot was the wild hook of the OffReb that he airballed. Otherwise, he did fine.

Wasn't questioning the number just more so surprised on the volume. He did have a number of elbow and further jumpers and some I wouldn't classify as wide open. He was super aggressive and had a shoot first mentality which was surprising at least to me.

[RandomGuy]

Wasn't questioning the number just more so surprised on the volume. He did have a number of elbow and further jumpers and some I wouldn't classify as wide open. He was super aggressive and had a shoot first mentality which was surprising at least to me.

Caseys job, trust me, he never plays like that.

[d749]

gameplan is probably to make teams respect his jumper and make him a threat to make up for landry fields crappy shot

[ceez]

Having 2 starting wingmen that can't make outside shots doesn't help

[Jclaw]

It's amazing how few of those highlights were pick'n rolls. It will be fun once they figure that out

[The Coach]

It's amazing how few of those highlights were pick'n rolls. It will be fun once they figure that out

Can anyone recognize who the guy on the bench is that gets so jacked up when JV makes a big play? The last couple highlights of that highlight reel he gets right off the bench.

[NoPropsneeded]

Can anyone recognize who the guy on the bench is that gets so jacked up when JV makes a big play? The last couple highlights of that highlight reel he gets right off the bench.

John Lucas? Landry? LK? ED?Amir? lol might as well list everyone

[Puffer]

Can anyone recognize who the guy on the bench is that gets so jacked up when JV makes a big play? The last couple highlights of that highlight reel he gets right off the bench.

looks like McGuire. Big guy but no beard.

[torch19]

Landry Fields sucks .... What a waste of cap space

[omgsomuchpotential]

Landry Fields sucks .... What a waste of cap space

I see what you did there.

[The Coach]

looks like McGuire. Big guy but no beard.

I think McGuire was in street clothes for this one though. Could have used him on the defensive end down the stretch... West anyone?

[theycallmeZZ]

Can anyone recognize who the guy on the bench is that gets so jacked up when JV makes a big play? The last couple highlights of that highlight reel he gets right off the bench.

On the putback dunk? I think it was AA and Ross

EDIT: On the last shot of that vid it was almost definitely AA