Sam Cassell (93)

[Boston]

Name: Samuel James Cassell
Position: PG
Number: 10
DOB: 11 October 1969
Age when drafted: 22
College: Florida State
Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland
Height: 6'3
Weight: 193

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STRENGTHS:
Your old-school point guard across the board. Handles the rock well and passes it pretty well. Advanced perimeter Defender who can flat out get after a ball-handler. Good quickness and leaping ability get him some steals and make him dangerous in space. Very strong stroke from the FT line, so fouling him is a very bad idea. Mechanically has a very nice stroke on his jumper, so that should be enough to get him some space for passing lanes on the floor. 

WEAKNESSES:
Thin, and gets pushed around because of it. Really not flexible in his game at this time: he's going to play PG and PG only. Provides no help whatsoever on the glass, and doesn't block shots even with solid athletic gifts. Cassell's 3 point shot really disappeared at times for FSU, which is not good for a guy as thin as Cassell is. He is also incredibly lazy, which coaches have tried to beat out of him for some time. Guess what? It hasn't worked real well. Leonard Hamilton got him to play sometimes...but I don't think a team in ABCA will tolerate his laziness.

SIGNIFICANT INFO: Called "Enigma" by just about everyone because effort is all over the board...if he's focused, he can be very good. The problem is, no one knows quite how to trigger it.
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1-5 rate the following for each category (half points can be given

Ins 1/2
Jps 3/4
Fts 4.5/5
3Ps 3/3.5
Hnd 3.5/4.5
Pas  3/4
ORb 1/1
DRb  1/1
PsD  1/2
PrD  4/5
Stl   3/4
Blk   1/1
Qck  4/5
Str    2/3
Jmp  4/4.5
Sta   3/4

[San Francisco]

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[BC Žalgiris]

Name:
Position: Sam Cassell
Number: 10
DOB: 11/18/1969
Age when drafted: 24
College: Florida State University
Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 185

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STRENGTHS: Sam Cassell was a clutch player in the moments when a team needed someone to perform a "Big-Ball Dance". Sam would drain the shot and run back down the court grabbing what seemed like grapefruit-sized balls. Sam had big balls and his game showed it. Decent three point shooter at 33 % but in the clutch it seemed much higher.

WEAKNESSES: Sam was just an above average pro. Average three point shooter, average jumpshot, average at getting to the rim, average ball handler. He just had big balls so he tried to hard averaging higher than average turnovers. But all that average playing ability translated into career numbers of 15.7 PPG, 6 Ast, 3.2 RPG, 1.1 stl

SIGNIFICANT INFO:
Three time NBA Campion (x2 Houston Rockets, x1 Celtics)
2004 All-Star
All-NBA 2003-2004

Best memory of Sam would be playing NBA Live, draining 3P shot after 3P shot and yelling Senator Sam for three!!!!! For some reason the rest of the world didn't pick up on that nickname. Sam I Am lame. 

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1-5 rate the following for each category (half points can be given

Ins: 3.5
Jps: 4
Fts: 4.5
3Ps: 4
Hnd: 3.5
Pas: 3.5
ORb: 2
DRb: 2
PsD: 1
PrD: 3
Stl: 3
Blk: 1
Qck: 4
Str: 3
Jmp: 3
Sta: 5

[San Francisco]

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