....with altitude in Salt Lake????

Who is working with Trent on his training if he gets gassed at an NBA workout at lower altitude than he was training at only 6 weeks previous? This doesn't look good for the kid, and he was already slipping.

"He struggled a little bit today physically, conditioning-wise, and I think he might have been a little sick," said Walt Perrin, Jazz player-personnel man, who then went on to list eight or nine things Plaisted needs to work on to be any kind of factor in the NBA.
It wasn't a ringing endorsement.
But, as Plaisted confessed: "What can I do about it now? . . . There's no going back."

Are you kidding me?

Here's egg on the face of all the Plaisted defenders.......

Don't say that cougar nation didn't warn you Trent.

This is sad, but I'm still pulling for him to do well. But it doesn't look like the Jazz were too impressed. Even they said he should have stayed another year in college. But on another note, Coach John Wardenburg is in my ward and he told me that Plaisted felt he had accomplished all that he could in college and they were pretty much expecting he to leave.

From http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700237739,00.html?pg=2

A second-round pick might not make a dent on the Jazz, the way the team is constructed today. "I think a first round pick would be hard to make our roster," added Perrin, who told a TV station this week he believed Plaisted would be better served if he'd spent one more year in college.

Why? Perrin said he'd have more time being "the guy" getting "more touches" and developing his game.

Said Perrin Tuesday, "I don't know where he goes right now, if he's a solid second round pick, at No. 44, and I think he'll be available, I don't know if we take him."

Does anyone else read that as politician speak for "Hell no" So much for the mock draft of him going to the Jazz. If he is drafted, I see him going to a team like Golden State, a struggling team with a history of not great personnel decisions who might take a flying leap at a guy who has one upside, that he can take a flying leap.

snoscythe wrote:

....with altitude in Salt Lake????

Who is working with Trent on his training if he gets gassed at an NBA workout at lower altitude than he was training at only 6 weeks previous? This doesn't look good for the kid, and he was already slipping.

Altitude acclimatization is lost after 2-3 weeks so if Trent was away for six weeks or visiting sporadically without training at altitude, he would have no benefit from having trained here 6 weeks ago with respect to altitude.

CraigOscarson wrote:

"He struggled a little bit today physically, conditioning-wise, and I think he might have been a little sick," said Walt Perrin, Jazz player-personnel man, who then went on to list eight or nine things Plaisted needs to work on to be any kind of factor in the NBA.
It wasn't a ringing endorsement.
But, as Plaisted confessed: "What can I do about it now? . . . There's no going back."

Are you kidding me?

Here's egg on the face of all the Plaisted defenders.......

Don't say that cougar nation didn't warn you Trent.

Craig, before you start tossing eggs, at least get the facts straight. You did quote Walt Perrin's first two sentences correctly. Good... After that, is it just me, or did you mean to imply the rest of the paragraph was based on the article?

Walt Perrin's continued quote was "He needs to work on his total game. He needs to work on stepping out and hitting some jump shots, continue to work on his post-up game and moving his feet defensively" I count four elements of Perrin's assessment. I guess I need to be reading between the lines to see the 4 - 5 others. I also missed where Perrin stated the 'need to work on [them] to be any kind of factor in the NBA'.

Plaisted did say -

"I've never proclaimed myself to be a jump shooting Dirk Nowitzki-type of player. That's not my strength at this time. But I do have some things you can't teach and that's my athleticism and ability to run the floor.

"I'm in the middle of it and there is no turning back now."

That's not exactly the same, in content or context, as "But, as Plaisted confessed: "What can I do about it now? . . . There's no going back." which you then express your incredulity about.

Incredulous? I am.

I do appreciate what Plaisted has done for the BYU basketball program. Whatever his NBA draft status, he has made what he feels is his best choice and I hope for the best for him, whether in the NBA or not. If that makes me a Plaisted defender, then so be it.

Before accepting any egg on Plaisted's behalf, though, I'll acknowledge that I agree with what Perrin said. I also agree with what Plaisted said. I must say though, that I don't agree with much that you said about what they said.

When one of the media said Plaisted "left it all on the floor," do you think there was a little Freudian slip?