Isaac Hamilton – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Isaac Hamilton
SG – 6’4, 185lbs – Born 14th May 1994
Canton Charge
Hamilton could be a good role player if he fully embraced a role. Slightly undersized for a high-level two-guard yet smooth and fluid in his motion, with enough speed to be competitive, Hamilton has good passing vision for a wing player, which, when combined with off-ball movement and his love of running the wings in transition, could make him a very solid role player to any point …
Chance Comanche – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Chance Comanche
PF/C – 6’10, 210lbs – Born 14th April 1996
Canton Charge
Fair play to anyone in any professional who has a marketable skill and who seeks to get paid for it. So you should (says Mark in his free Manifesto). Having not done much in his first two seasons at Arizona, the traditional argument would have been that Chance Comanche should have stayed in school, built up his body, his skills and his CV. But that argument only …
Nigel Johnson – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Nigel Johnson
PG – 6’1, 190lbs – Born 20th January 1995
Canton Charge
In four years at three prominent schools – Rutgers counts as prominent, despite the profound struggles of, ooh, the last forty years or so – Johnson never once cracked the 40% shooting mark from the field. Only once did he surpass the .482% true shooting percentage he shot as a freshman; it was in the .521% he shot the following year as a sophomore. Considering he is …
Malik Newman – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Malik Newman
SG – 6’3, 190lbs – Born 21st February 1997
Canton Charge
Newman’s first professional season was a strange one. Leaving Kansas after his sophomore season, he went undrafted, went to summer league with the L.A. Lakers, signed a two-way contract with them on the first possible day to do it, yet never even made it out the month of July before they ended it. Subsequently picked up by the Miami Heat for training camp, he did not make …
Malachi Richardson – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Malachi Richardson
SG – 6’4, 200lbs – Born 5th January 1996
Canton Charge
Richardson was picked up by the Charge at the end of the G-League season, with not even enough time to appear in a single game. He had spent the majority of the year in the NBA, beginning with the NBA champion Toronto Raptors (who had traded the expiring salary of Bruno Caboclo for him at the deadline in 2017-18 just to then not play him; by the …
JaCorey Williams – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
JaCorey Williams
PF – 6’8, 220lbs – Born 12th June 1994
Canton Charge
Williams has intrigued the Cavaliers for sometime now. They have signed him for each of the last two training camps and allocated him to Canton both times; they are clearly none too subtle about wanting to keep him around. And so while Williams has yet to make the regular season roster, don’t think for a minute the Cavaliers brass didn’t notice the subtle improvements in his output …
Scoochie Smith – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Scoochie Smith
PG – 6’2, 180lbs – Born 11th November 1994
Canton Charge
Smith spent his first professional season mostly in Australia with the Cairns Taipans, yet for whatever reason, the Australian season ends very early. This thus gave him time to return to America and be picked up by the Charge last March, and after a summer league stint and training camp contract with the parent Cavaliers, Smith returned to the Charge for the full season this time around.…
Levi Randolph – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Levi Randolph
SG – 6’6, 210lbs – Born 3rd October 1992
Canton Charge
I am glad that Randolph is giving it a go in the G-League before he enters the prime of his career and before it is too late for a call-up, because I really feel he has a chance at one.
Having been in summer league for each of the past four seasons, managing to appear on the rosters of nine different franchise’s summer league teams in that …
Phil Carr – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Phil Carr
SF/PF – 6’8, 200lbs – Born 20th October 1995
Canton Charge
Although his first professional season started off with a one-day contract with the New York Knicks in order to get him allocated to Westchester, Carr was waived out of the Knicks organisation altogether when Westchester cut him as well in early January. While the Knicks liked the potential they saw him as a face-up four, they also saw the rawness within him, rawness also on show in …
Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman – 2018-19 G-League Player Profile
June 20th, 2019
Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman
SG – 6’4, 190lbs – Born 1st September 1994
Canton Charge
Bobby Longname spent his first professional season with the Charge after making the roster initially as a local tryout player. He came in with a solid role player résumé; good shooter, good defender, part-time point guard, occasional creator, pink shoe wearer, and one who never ever turns the ball over. And apart from the pink shoes, he stuck to the brief.
A cutter, extra passer and unselfish …
