推 dwyanes:看原文就夠了 05/25 00:19
推 iecdalu:西斯嬌點:長度 熟度 05/25 00:33
Pat Riley is on the South Side of Chicago putting in plenty of work.
No, the Heat president of basketball operations is not up there to intensify
his recruiting efforts to retain Chicago native and Miami point guard Dwyane
Wade.
That trip, we presume, will come a bit later.
And no, Riley hasn't spent the better part of this week in Chi-Town in to
convince LeBron James to hold off on his search for real estate.
Instead, Riley and his staff of top front-office administrators have spent the
past few days in Chicago taking a close look at prospects in the June 24 NBA
Draft. The fact that Riley is putting in plenty of face time at the pre-draft
combine is a signal of at least two things.
One, it could very well be a face-to-face feeling-out process with other club
execs on sign-and-trades that could play out this summer.
And two, it shows that Pat is taking this year's draft pretty seriously. The
Heat holds four picks - the No. 18 overall pick in the first round and three
second rounders. That's potentially four trade chips. Or, better yet, four
slots the Heat plans to fill on the 2010-11 roster through the draft.
Riles is typically reluctant to operate this way. The Heat hasn't had much
success building through the draft when it hasn't been positioned in the
lottery.
But this year looks like it will be different. We'll take a closer look at the
Heat's draft philosophy in a story that will run in Sunday's Miami Herald. But
for now, from all indications, it appears that Pat and the Heat have been
aggressively scouting, interviewing and working out prospects that could be
keepers.
One name that has already come out of the Chicago combine as a rumored target
of Heat interest is University of Washington forward Quincy Pondexter, pictured
above right. He's the prototypical scoring small forward who also is long
enough to defend in the Heat's system.
Another name who has surfaced on Miami's potential draft radar is Tulsa's
Jerome Jordan (pictured left), a 7-footer who has developed nicely in college
and is among a number of big-man projects who could fall in the Heat's draft
range. In this draft process, the Heat has placed a premium on two things:
experience and length.
And with most of the team's available salary-cap space earmarked for free
agency, the Heat likely will need to round out several roster spots with draft
picks or minimum-salary veterans.
Unlike seasons past, this might finally be the year when circumstances dictate
that Pat plant a draft pick or three on the end of his bench next season
instead of somewhere across the Atlantic.
西斯來源:http://blogs.herald.com/miami_...length-maturity.html
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