To answer the title thread, No Preston is likely not the next LeBron.
What is with us always picking up these mid-twenties-year-old players, as our two-way players?
At that age, they're close enough to their prime that they probably aren't going to get that much better.
I'd rather swing big and go for someone who is really raw but has more upside, than someone who is clearly an AAAA player.
I get the Blossomgame signing more than the Jones signing. Blossomgame only was drafted last year and started late at Clemson due to a broken leg that protruded at the end of his high school career. So his development was set back two years due to this.
The Spurs took an interest and drafted him. I think he is more intriguing than Harrison and Harrison is unneeded with the return of Hill and acquisition of Burks.
Ditching Preston for Jones is a head scratcher. But hard for us to know everything behind the scenes. Maybe he's not putting in the effort and the org knows.
Even so, I'd be more interested in giving Colson that two-way than Jones. He's shown potential and works hard. I don't want someone else seeing him as a solid developmental guy and grabbing him.
I was trying to thing of the appropriate eulogy for Billy Preston. I suspect that this move had little to do with his basketball skills, or his lack of basket ball skills. We will probably see him back in Canton on a standard G-league contract if it wasn't a disciplinary move.
https://www.cleveland.com/cavs/2018/12/cleveland_cavaliers_waive_bill.html
While the Cavs recognize Preston's untapped potential and the inherent risk in letting him go, he hasn't been able to put it all together playing in Canton.
In 10 games with the Charge, Preston is averaging 6.1 points on 35 percent shooting and 42.9 percent from beyond the arc, covering 2.1 attempts per game, to go with 3.8 rebounds.
He probably doesn't give a shit whether we have a bunch of 2s or not. If I had to guess, I would say he's probably just trying to pick up as many talented guys he can, hoping that some of them pan out.His rebounding has been disappointing. I thought that was a strength.
I do really wonder what they are going to do with all these 2 guards. What exactly is Koby up to with all these 2's? Is he shipping every wing out or what?
Reality can be a bitch.Yeesh all of the hope from the summer time has vanished. It now appears that Cedi won't be an all-star. Love is never gonna be Timberwolves Love again. Ante isn't the white Shaq. And now diamond in the rough Billy Preston can't even hang on a G League squad.
While I don't disagree, its so rare that a G-League turns into anything useful that I don't see the point of putting allot of thought into this.