Travis Trice – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Travis Trice
PG – 6’2, 177lbs – Born 22nd January 1993
Austin Spurs
The Spurs acquired Trice from the Wisconsin Herd for Nick Johnson two thirds of the way through the season, and in so doing, they got themselves a lead guard.
Because of his size, Trice cannot play or guard any position other than the one spot. He is small (the 6’2 listing, which like all listings in this Manifesto is taken from the NBA’s official numbers, seems generous), …
Cameron Rundles – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Cameron Rundles
PG/SG – 6’2, 180lbs – Born 27th April 1988
Austin Spurs
Rundles is a somewhat unlikely candidate to have made a G-League debut at age 30. He made the team via the local tryout route back in October, and survived all the subsequent roster turnover to still be there at the end, making it through a full season at the end of the bench after a seven-year international professional career taking in too many countries to mention. (Although …
Jeff Ledbetter – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Jeff Ledbetter
SG – 6’3, 195lbs – Born 15th June 1988
Austin Spurs
Ledbetter started the season with the Spurs, going for his third consecutive season with the team, after also having appeared for San Antonio’s summer league team for two consecutive seasons. However, he stayed for only 19 games before leaving the team, seemingly unannounced, to return to Mexico and played with the Manzaneros de Cuauhtémoc. Ledbetter has been a good G-League player and solid pro mostly on account …
Corey Henderson – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Corey Henderson
SG – 6’5, 190lbs – Born 1st August 1995
Austin Spurs
Henderson’s first professional season started with a spot on the Austin roster for training camp via a local tryout, but was waived early when Nick Johnson became available to return. It appears as though he did not play elsewhere. Henderson is a particularly shooty shooting guard, with a .731% three-point rate as a senior, plenty of clutch baskets, and a propensity for shooting from Stephen Curry-range. He …
Jeff Coby – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Jeff Coby
PF – 6’8, 227lbs – Born 4th February 1994
Austin Spurs
Beginning his second professional season with an unexpected training camp contract from New York – admittedly lasting only seven days before being waived – Coby managed only one day longer than that with the Knicks’ G-League affiliate Westchester before being cut again. He was latterly picked up by the Spurs for a couple of weeks as cover for Travis Trice and John Holland while they went off …
Demetri McCamey – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Demetri McCamey
PG – 6’3, 205lbs – Born 21st February 1989
Austin Spurs
McCamey has spent three of the past four seasons with the Spurs now, yet the player he was as a senior at Illinois seems to be a thing of the past.
The McCamey of back then was an excellent spot-up shooter (an enormous 1.634 points per possession) who, while he did not move the opposing half court defence around like other lead guards out there, passed well …
Connor Burchfield – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Connor Burchfield
SG – 6’4, 180lbs – Born 6th April 1994
Austin Spurs
In his first professional season out of William and Mary, Burchfield moved around. He signed early with Juventus in Lithuania, was cut after two months just before the season began, was drafted by the Spurs with the penultimate pick in the first round of the G-League Draft, lasted two further months, before latterly spending 13 days with the Sioux Falls Skyforce and 11 days with the Greensboro …
Josh Huestis – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Josh Huestis
SF/PF – 6’7, 230lbs – Born 19th December 1991
Austin Spurs
Coming out of college, although he had scored 11.2 points per game as a senior, Huestis had yet to establish what kind of offensive player he was. Sometimes he played in the post, sometimes he spotted up from the perimeter, yet in neither case did he stand out. Instead, Huestis was a defence -first player, a rebounder and a shot blocker, who scored through cuts, put-backs and …
John Holland – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
John Holland
SG/SF – 6’5, 205lbs – Born 6th November 1988
Austin Spurs
Holland initially began this past season on the second year of the two-way contract with which he began the 2017-18 campaign, but was waived by the Cleveland Cavaliers in favour of Andrew Harrison. When Harrison himself was then replaced by Jaron Blossomgame a month later, it was largely Holland who filled Blossomgame’s spot with the Spurs. They do things quite differently, though.
Offensively minded, Holland is a …
Jordan Green – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Jordan Green
SG – 6’5, 191lbs – Born 5th May 1993
Austin Spurs
Since leaving the Texas A&M basketball team in 2015, Green has a spotty CV, barely playing save for a brief local tryout spot with the Erie BayHawks over his first two professional campaigns, before making the Spurs roster via the same tryout route to begin the 2017-18 season. That time, it worked, as Green has now been on the team for two full years.
In an era …
Amida Brimah – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Amida Brimah
C – 6’10, 230lbs – Born 11th February 1994
Austin Spurs
After four years at UConn, the book on Brimah was written a long time ago. Long, athletic shot blocker, looks smooth, limited offensively, prone to fouling. Given the prolific nature of his shot blocking ability, the question was whether he could iron out the kinks over time and maximise the value of this one unteachable skill. The answer thus far:….sort of.
Having completed his second consecutive season …
Devon Bookert – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Devon Bookert
PG – 6’3, 195lbs – Born 27th January 1993
Austin Spurs
In the three years since he graduated from Florida State, Bookert has spent two years on the cusp of the G-League, some time in the Czech Republic and one year unsigned. Twice he has been drafted – 75th overall by Rio Grande Valley last year, 42nd by Capital City this year – yet neither time has he made it out of camp. He was called up to …
Dejuan Blair – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Dejuan Blair
PF/C – 6’8, 270lbs – Born 22nd April 1989
Austin Spurs
Three years removed from his last stint in the NBA, and the veteran Blair is still trying to get back in it.
Blair has had short G-League stints in two of the last three seasons, yet this season he landed a spot only by going via the draft mechanism. Blair was drafted with the 107th pick in the 2018 G-League Draft; to put that into some context, …
Travis Bader – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Travis Bader
SG – 6’5, 190lbs – Born 2nd July 1991
Austin Spurs
Bader returned to the G-League this January after three and a half years away, time which he had spent in Lithuania, Italy and Greece. In his time away, he has actually been working to reduce his three-point rate. Whereas most players increase theirs over time, Bader – who came out of Oakland in 2014 as an out-and-out off-ball shooting specialist – has lowered his three-point rate from …
