re: Fan Conference Call - Who's In?

They mentioned wanting to add more veterans next year, which is something that always bothered me about our roster this year. We lacked one of those old 10+ year vets that understood the league and could help youngsters like Davis and Rivers through their rookie year.

I listen to these great HOF level players tell the stories of their careers and almost without exception they talk about the vet(s) on their team who was so valuable to them when they were young.

Davis gets lots of KG comparisons, so I went back and looked some KG rookie year highlights and two of the first people I see on his team are Terry Porter and Sam Mitchell. Both guys future successful nba head coaches, and both were constantly in his ear.

There was a game earlier in the year was Davis got a couple ticky tack fouls and you could see he was frustrated out of his mind. He was throwing his hands up in the air and kept looking to the bench asking what he was doing wrong. Finally Monty took him out. He comes to the bench and on one side of him is 19 year old Austin Rivers and on the other side is Roger Mason. He started venting to Mason and Mason looks at him with a, "dude i'm just happy to be in the league", look. Thats when a PJ Brown-type was sorely needed.

I just listened to Simmons' podcast with Jason Collins and was mentioning the old vets the helped him through his early years. He also mentioned Zaza Pachulia calling and thanking him for some of the tricks Collins taught him about guarding guys like Howard and Shaq.

I think some of our young guys really missed out on things like that. Im sure guys like Anderson and Smith did what they could but they're still in the middle of findings themselves in the league too.

Bump out end of the bench guys like Lance Thomas and Xavier Henry and bring in someone like Camby