Avery out to prove point he belongs with Bucks
前幾天的新聞,
有關公鹿的夏季聯盟的消息,
看來公鹿正積極地尋找主力控衛T.J Ford的得力替補,
目前相中的是William Avery~~
來源:http://www.jsonline.com/sports/buck/jul04/241296.asp
Posted: July 3, 2004
St. Francis -
William Avery is looking for an opportunity. The Milwaukee Buck are looking for a point guard. The next week should go a long way toward
determining whether both parties wind up getting what they want come this fall.
A former collegiate standout at Duke with three years of National
Basketball Association experience under his belt, the 6-foot-2, 180-pound
Avery is the most accomplished of the handful of point-guard candidates who
will enter summer-league play for the Bucks on Tuesday.
Avery left Duke in 1999 after his sophomore year with the distinction of
being the only player to have ever done so without the blessing of coach Mike
Krzyzewski. Avery, who averaged 14.9 points per game in helping Duke reach the
1999 NCAA title game, was drafted 14th overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Aside from the guaranteed contract and the few million dollars he wound up
with, though, it's a decision Avery wound up regretting in a big way. Unable to
get himself off the bench on a playoff-caliber team, he averaged 2.7 points and
1.4 assists in 142 games before he was cut loose.
"Looking at the position I'm in now I'd have to say I'd definitely have
done it differently," Avery said Saturday after the opening summer-camp workout
at the Bucks' practice facility. "But I have no regrets. I was able to do a lot
of things for my family and I learned a lot. I learned the hard way,
unfortunately, but I think it'll help me in the long run."
Avery has since bounced around the world in an attempt to get back to the
NBA. He played the 2002 season in France and last year in Israel before
getting this shot with the Bucks.
"Once you're out of the league it's always tough to get back in," Avery
said. "I missed being in the States, I missed competing against the best
players in the world and those 82 games. In Europe there's not as many games
but practices are a real grind, twice a day for the year."
With T.J. Ford recovering from spinal surgery, Damon Jones and Brevin
Knight unrestricted free agents and Erick Strickland probably not the answer,
the point-guard situation in Milwaukee is such that Avery could earn himself a
look in training camp should he perform well enough in summer-league play.
"With the point guards, we're looking for someone who can run our offense,"
said Bucks assistant Bob Ociepka, who will run Milwaukee's entry in the
Minneapolis summer league along with the newly hired Jerome Kersey. "We've got
a couple guys out there that are on our team (Marcus Haislip and Dan Gadzuric)
so No. 1, we want to look and see if he can run the team and get the ball to
those guys. Then we'll see if he can hit shots."
Avery already appears to be well-aware of the job requirements.
"Go out there, do what the coaches ask, compete and run the ball club -
that's what you have to do as a point guard in this league," he said. "Control
the tempo, both offensively and defensively. You have to go out there and
really perform."
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