A.J. Slaughter

A.J. Slaughter

Slaughter returns to summer league after three years away. In the time hence, Slaughter has played in Italy, Belgium and France, and has developed his game since his Western Kentucky days. Still primarily a scorer rather than a creator, Slaughter has nonetheless developed his point guard skills and effectiveness off the pick and roll, improved his defensive fundamentals, and last year showed a nice spike in his hitherto mediocre three point range. Slaughter has become a consistent, skilled and versatile lead guard with great size and decent speed, who has the talent to play in the NBA. The only problem now is his age. Turning 26 this summer, Slaughter certainly is not old, but given the choice between him at 26 and Ray McCallum at 22, the NBA will always take the McCallum types, and Slaughter, if better, is not better by enough to make up that difference. Nevertheless, he's a nice player.

- A.J. Slaughter - Slaughter will be one of not-very-many American rookies in SerieA next year after signing with Angellico Biella. For context's sake, the only American rookie in SerieA last year was K.C. Rivers. And even he didn't start there.

A.J. Slaughter

Slaughter played almost every minute of every game for Western Kentucky last season, finishing with averages of 17.5 points, 4.3 assists and 2.7 turnovers per game. He is not a full time point guard, nor is he big enough (6'3) to be a two guard. And while the three pointer accounts for half of his offense, he makes them at only 36%. Worse still, this is his idea of dress sense. That's basically a skirt, A.J.. There's baggy, and then there's emasculating.