Basketball writing, scouting reports and salary cap analysis from the archive.
Isaiah Armwood PF - 6'9, 215lbs - Born 28th December 1994 Capital City Go-Go to this season had been a surprise. He barely played in Italy’s Serie A with Trento as a rookie, dropped down to the Italian second division in his second season, dropped further down to…
Noah Allen SF - 6'7, 215lbs - Born 1st February 1995 Capital City Go-Go Three years at UCLA saw Allen barely leave the bench. He recorded only 71 games, 604 minutes and 84 points in that time, never finding a role, never winning the coaching staff’s confidence, and…
Chinanu Onuaku C - 6'9, 250lbs - Born 1st November 1996 Greensboro Swarm Salary dumped by the Rockets onto the Mavericks at the start of this past summer, Onuaku was the first between he and Zhou Qi to lose their job as the Rockets’ prospect centre due to…
Tyler Nelson SG - 6'3, 180lbs - Born 9th August 1995 Greensboro Swarm Nelson was the third overall pick in last year's G-League draft, beginning his first season as a professional after a four-year career at Fairfield in which he averaged greater than 20 points per game across…
John Gillon PG - 6'0, 178lbs - Born 31st March 1994 Greensboro Swarm Gillon began the year with the Erie BayHawks, and was acquired by the Swarm in trade in exchange for Cat Barber. The Swarm had been using Barber as a sixth man type off the bench,…
John Dawson PG - 6'2, 205lbs - Born 12th April 1995 Greensboro Swarm Dawson made the Swarm roster as a local tryout player in 2017, and after returning for this past season has now spent two complete years with the team. He has however played only 66 regular…
Roscoe Smith PF - 6'8, 215lbs - Born 1st August 1991 Greensboro Swarm Smith joined the Swarm to begin the season as a returning player, and appeared in 23 games, averaging 7.7 points and 4.6 rebounds per game, before being waived by the team in January. It is…
Isaiah Wilkins SF/PF - 6'8, 205lbs - Born 23rd September 1995 Greensboro Swarm In Zach Smith's profile two pages ago, I mentioned that he plays some technically precise defence. I stand by it. But no one plays as technically precise of defence on this Swarm team as Wilkins…
Sam Thompson SF - 6'7, 200lbs - Born 11th November 1992 Greensboro Swarm The hope when Thompson joined Ohio State way back in the day was that he would develop the offensive and playmaking skills required to maximise his excellent physical profile. With good size for a wing,…
Zach Smith SF/PF - 6'8, 216lbs - Born 5th January 1996 Greensboro Swarm Zhaire Smith got all the plaudits and the NBA first-round draft selection last summer; he was younger, more athletic, was able to play more positions and was already better in terms of his basketball skill…
Malik Pope PF - 6'10, 220lbs - Born 25th July 1996 Greensboro Swarm With his height, length, versatility, perimeter inclinations and very memorable name, Pope has been on the NBA radar since his San Diego State career began, if not before. He developed a bit in his years…
Luke Petrasek PF/C - 6'10, 215lbs - Born 17th August 1995 Greensboro Swarm The Hornets have had their eye on Petrasek since he left Columbia back in 2017. They signed him for training camp that first year, have now allocated him to Greensboro for two consecutive seasons, and…
Lenjo Kilo PF/C - 6'8, 240lbs - Born 31st August 1993 Delaware Blue Coats Kilo joined the G-League this year with quite the disparate CV behind him. He spent his first two college years at Division II Seton Hill (not Hall), then spent two more at the University…
Terrence Drisdom SG - 6'5, 185lbs - Born 30th July 1992 Delaware Blue Coats Having spent his first two professional seasons with the Santa Cruz Warriors, Drisdom then took a year away from the G-League to play in Japan second division with the Hiroshima Dragonflies, and then returned…
Rashad Vaughn SG/SF - 6'6, 210lbs - Born 16th August 1996 Delaware Blue Coats An NBA first-round pick only three short years ago, Vaughn fell out of the NBA by not hitting enough shots or playing enough defence. This is the era of the three-and-D non-star wing; invariably,…
Kyle Randall PG - 6'1, 185lbs - Born 10th September 1991 Delaware Blue Coats Having completed his third G-League season now, it has been established what type of player Randall is. What he is is a reserve ball-handling point guard. He is undersized and without great leap, length,…
Norvel Pelle C - 6'10, 231lbs - Born 3rd February 1993 Delaware Blue Coats Pelle played in the then-D-League in his first professional season, drafted sixth overall way back in 2013 by this same Delaware franchise, then known as the 87ers. He came back for the final four…
D.J. Hogg SF/PF - 6'9, 215lbs - Born 3rd September 1996 Delaware Blue Coats Hogg declared for the draft last summer as a junior hoping to take advantage of the contemporary love for stretch shooting forwards in the NBA today. He went undrafted, so joined the New Orleans…
Matt Farrell PG - 6'1, 175lbs - Born 15th March 1996 Delaware Blue Coats Passionate advocates of college basketball like to cite the supposed superior effort level and defensive intensity in their defences of why it is a better, purer product than the NBA. The reality that those…
Keenan Evans PG/SG - 6'3, 190lbs - Born 23rd August 1996 Delaware Blue Coats Fresh from being the lead guard on a Texas Tech team that made it all the way to the Elite Eight, Evans began his first professional season on the summer league roster of the…
A.J. Davis SF/PF - 6'9, 215lbs - Born 15th March 1995 Delaware Blue Coats A.J. Davis is Antonio Davis's son, but does not much play like him. Whereas Antonio was a bruising paint-based old school post-up type of player, A.J. is more about the perimeter game, the finesse,…
Michael Bryson SG - 6'4, 200lbs - Born 30th September 1994 Delaware Blue Coats Bryson is the rare type of guard who certainly does not mind going down into the post. He runs the court, he runs off some screens, and he takes quite a lot of spot-up…
Jared Brownridge SF - 6'3, 200lbs - Born 13th November 1994 Delaware Blue Coats David Logan was a high quality EuroLeague player for many seasons. He was a small scoring guard who could create for himself or just raise up and shoot, who shot well off the ball…
Jaylen Barford SG - 6'3, 202lbs - Born 23rd January 1996 Greensboro Swarm This was Barford’s first professional season, and as with so many G-Leaguers, it started with the summer league/training camp/allocation cycle, all via the Charlotte Hornets. What the Hornets will have seen in him at Arkansas…
Ryan Anderson PF - 6'9, 215lbs - Born 4th December 1992 Delaware Blue Coats Ryan Anderson is one of the best offensive rebounding specialists in the game. This was not the case when he began his career at Boston College, with a 6.7% offensive rebounding percentage as a…