Wideout? Pryor should stick to QB if he wants chance in NFL

It's not easy, and there's a long line of players who have ultimately bombed in the NFL at receiver. And I don't mean former college quarterbacks like Reggie McNeal, Isaiah Stanback and Matt Jones. I mean former college receivers -- great ones -- like Mike Williams and Reggie Williams. And Ashley Lelie. Charles Rogers. Troy Williamson. And Ted Ginn Jr., just to name one from Ohio State.

But Terrelle Pryor should move to wide receiver because, well, because it just makes so much sense!

No it doesn't -- and if it seems like I'm arguing with myself, good. I'm trying to capture the feeling of insanity here, because this growing momentum about Terrelle Pryor becoming a capable NFL receiver is nuts.

Only two players in the last quarter-century have made the successful transition from college quarterback to NFL receiver: Antwaan Randle El (Indiana) and Ronald Curry (North Carolina). And that's it.

Don't email me just yet. I didn't forget about Josh Cribbs (Kent State) or Brad Smith (Missouri) or Brian Mitchell (Southwestern Louisiana), but they don't count in this argument because they didn't make it in the NFL as a receiver, or in Mitchell's case as a running back. They made it as return men. Do you see enormous Terrelle Pryor returning kicks? No. Of course not. So don't tell me about Josh Cribbs or Brad Smith or Brian Mitchell and expect me to back down on Terrelle Pryor.

Don't tell me about Hines Ward (Georgia), either. He's a great NFL receiver, a Hall of Famer probably, but he didn't convert from college quarterback. He played that position at Georgia, yes, but he played quarterback only briefly. He also was a college running back but mainly he played receiver -- and finished his career ranked second on the Bulldogs' all-time list for receptions.

Similarly, don't tell me about Patrick Crayton (Northwestern Oklahoma State) or Drew Bennett (UCLA), both of whom spent multiple years in college at receiver. Those guys, like Ward and Cribbs and Mitchell, are apples.

And Terrelle Pryor is an orange.

But it has been fashionable in recent weeks to say Pryor should convert to receiver, or convert to tight end, or convert to any position but the one he is trained and built for and dying to play. It's nonsense, and not because Pryor will be a great NFL quarterback or even a good one. I'm not here to tell you he'll succeed at quarterback. Pryor strikes me as another Vince Young or Tim Tebow, and we all see what kind of success Vince Young and Tebow have had, so far, as NFL quarterbacks.

But all this talk about a new position for Pryor -- just as there was talk about a new position for Tebow, talk I embraced myself on radio shows before the 2010 draft -- is naïve, simplistic, maybe even stupid. From the looks of things, I just called myself naïve, simplistic and maybe even stupid, but you know what? I deserve it for thinking two years ago that Tebow ought to change positions to H-back if he wanted to make it in the NFL.

That was wrong, and again, not because Tebow looks like a good NFL quarterback. He doesn't, at least not yet, but at least he's playing the position he knows -- and wants -- to play. The second half of that, wants to play, can't be stressed enough. The only way a college quarterback can make the switch to another position is if he embraces it, and not like Terrelle Pryor is embracing it when he says "it's a dream of mine to play quarterback here" in the NFL, but fine, if someone forces him to switch positions, he'll do it.

Good attitude? Sure, if this was Pop Warner football. But it's not. This is the NFL, where great, trained and motivated athletes get released every day. Pryor is a great athlete, yes, but he's not trained to play anything but quarterback -- and he doesn't sound all that motivated to make it happen. The two ex-quarterbacks I mentioned earlier as exceptions to the rule of switching positions, Ronald Curry and Antwaan Randle El? They came out of college knowing they'd switch positions. Wanting to switch positions. Ready to make it work. And so they did.

These other guys? Marcus Vick and Eric Crouch and Rasheed Marshall and Jammal Lord? They were dragged out from under center, and they never made it anywhere else. Because it's just not that simple.

Terrelle Pryor has no idea how to run routes, and none of us has any idea if he can catch. I mean, we saw him make this catch against Texas in the 2009 Fiesta Bowl, but it was just one catch. And it was a short lob over a short defensive back who made no play on the ball. Can Pryor catch a sizzling sideline pass from one of the howitzer-arms playing quarterback in the NFL? Can he run over the middle and make a catch in traffic? I'm sure he could if he was making this switch in high school. Maybe he could if it was college. But this isn't intramurals, brother. This is the NFL.

I'm not saying it's impossible, OK? You're not reading that it can't happen for Terrelle Pryor. What you're reading is this: Terrelle Pryor's best chance to make it in the NFL is to use his quarterback's body, quarterback's training and quarterback's mindset to play ... pause for dramatic effect ... quarterback.

Kevin Durant is not a good representative of the union

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When the clock strikes midnight on Thursday and Friday was the NBA's collective bargaining agreement expired date. It's a nice story about the NBA today, because this time is the beginning of a strike that could spread deep to slow down in the autumn and winter, or even cancel the regular season.
The players' union, including all officials and representatives of the team that works hard to understand the proposals can avoid this worst case, while members with a robust set of rules for a new agreement group. It is hard work, requires attention, commitment and solidarity.
Kevin Durant (NB) is the representative of one of the main players in the Oklahoma City Thunder. Unlike many other members of the team, which is already bad enough to work. Is during the week began with a stopover in Chicago, and next to Austin, Texas, on the other side on Friday and Saturday from Camp Head: Jeff Latzko for the Associated Press (via PBT). Soon, a trip to China for the second time is to do in the summer.
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All this takes time from his duties as CEO of Oklahoma City. He even said he  forgot the time  and had no knowledge of the CBA was set to expire soon.
With me in this area involved and do things that I had to do this summer, I had the opportunity to actually go to the meetings and to sit down and really know how things are going,  said Durant.
Although it is logical that would be interested in building your brand and make of media outreach events: a young superstar is anxious to expand its presence in the marketing and public events all help you increase to achieve these goals. But it is also one reason why most stars are not the representatives of the players - their concerns are important, are not the same as most union members.
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In other words, it is quite possible that, when the CBA going negotiations in a direction to lead the maximum amount of low wages, would be in the best interest of Durant to forget the trade union rights and on building your brand a way that increases opportunities for the support. On the other hand, the finances will be a role player to be affected by the negotiations, since the peak of the hard cover for the duration of the contracts. This does not mean that all the superstars are the representatives of the mismatch - it is very possible that someone put the interest of many of his own fight for their fellow social workers. However, his lack of motivation during the shows, a difficult task.

Participants without NBA D-League affiliate

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The Wizards need a new NBA Development League affiliate, after the Golden State Warriors, the Dakota Wizards on Tuesday. Wizards Memphis Grizzlies, and they can their rookies and second year players on his team ready to send for the D-League in Bismark, North Dakota, but no longer the case after the war was the eighth team in NBA This is called a subsidiary of a minor league system to NBAs.


NBA D-League will give the new members announced at a later date. The 17-team league, with nine of them - the power of Iowa, Fort Wayne ants, Maine Red Claws, Sioux Falls Skyforce, Idaho Stampede, New Mexico Thunderbirds City, Reno Bighorn, Bakersfield Jam, Utah Flash - is now expect that distributed among the 22 NBA teams.

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D-League teams to compete in the upcoming season in the NBA, even if you block their players, as planned Friday.
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Wizards owner Ted Leonsis said the use of the D-League as a tool for talent to develop young and inexperienced. After sending the Wizards center Hamady Ndiaye rookie in Bismarck for some time playing with the Dakota Wizards. Who has been a member of the Dakota Wizards of the 2006/07 season after previous administration, with the now-defunct Roanoke Dazzle, the two Andray Blatch, Peter John Ramos and organized labor.

Now Shooting: Kahn denies Krzyzewski still Timberwolves

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There is no truth to a report in the Sunday New York Daily News that the Timberwolves failed to run Mike Krzyzewski of Duke, president of Lobos, David Kahn will be trained, said this morning via SMS.

Krzyzewski, a Duke spokesman said the Durham Herald Sun that none of the Lobos had contacted and had no one contacted by the Wolves.

- The Timberwolves signed Ricky Rubio and his subsequent appearance at the Target Center last week, the sale of nearly 200 replicas shirts Wolves # 9 of 65 individuals, the organization left with a smile.

Wolves are also around 540 season tickets since the signing of 20-year-old guard expelled from Spain, the team said this morning, bringing the total number of your credit card equivalent of about 7100th

Many new credit cards were part of a promotion to purchases of $ 9 a sofa Friday high. Wolves that nearly a third of the new credit card purchases, which were $ 20 to $ 750 (yard) per game on the ground floor of Target.

Rubio, meanwhile, is working informally with some of his teammates Lobos still in the pickup games at Target Center, then back to Barcelona tonight.
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Rubio and family members of an appearance on Saturday at the Mall of America.

Sunday found the Mall of America was the election of the new wolves  in the first round, Derrick Williams.

In fact, one of the number of sales 9jersey Rubio - such as income from all sales of NBA jersey - is also shared by the members of the Association of NBA players who are independent of the amount sold separately.
- Now that it officially, directly from John Hill as vice principal at the Gophers coach Don Lucia's hockey male employees for Mike Gntzel average employee of the University of Minnesota.

The Gophers hockey community should rejoice when Gntzel, a former Gophers player people can be fooled again, Nebraska-Omaha, where he served as assistant coach Dean Blais.
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Omaha is expected that an improved contract offer G眉ntzel, but if the supply of Gopher is  competitive, G眉ntzel must return the old University of Minnesota.

Rent Hill in 2005 led to the departure of Gntzel.

- Quarterback Christian Ponder is the Minnesota Vikings, forward Chris Singleton, and the Washington Wizards pitcher Sean Gilmartin will be the Atlanta Braves at Florida State was the only school in NCAA first round of the NFL, NBA and MLB to produce this year.

- Almost no one noticed, but Jeff Sorenson 65 in Minneapolis during this difficult Hershey Country Club made him a co-leader among the 312 golfers at the PGA Championship began on Sunday professional nationally.

NBA Draft: Why Kansas State guard Jacob Pullen has been stolen in the night project

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It's really very simple. If Jimma Fredette is the selection of 10 in the NBA, Jacob Pullen earned his name called on Thursday evening.

Although very few people probably expect it to go, the young graduate of Kansas State in the first round from there took a raw deal goes undrafted.

Pullen was one of the top guards in the United States in each of the last two seasons. Despite only 6'0  tall and seemed in better ball to play as a leader, Pullen managed an average of 20 points per game for each of the last two seasons, while the main K-State NCAA Tournament works in both years.

In addition to his NBA again piled on the face of college basketball last season Jimma Fredette, Pullen shows that there is a laugh.
 Play an average of 28.9 points and 4.3 Fredette assists per game in the WAC Jimma, where it was the best competition is a very athletic team San Diego State to open, it destroys.

Furthermore, averaged Pullen, probably looked better browser at the end of his junior season, 20.2 points and 3.7 assists in Big 12, which is probably a difficult league.

The assessment of what the two is, Fredette better with the ball. It may coincide with the best and pull-up without three NBA players like few can. According to reports, two inches and visitor numbers during his career, he strikes with the handle dynamic playmaker has more potential than

Pullen, however, is a superior defender, but the people are forced to put his ability to defend at the NBA's question, he has throughout his career, oppose that ball handlers dogs and could lock protection in other teams best if made necessary to prove .

The common feature is the ability to light the ball long haul, both of which showed in the last season with Pullen shot 38 percent from 39 percent Fredette shoot low.
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Ironically, the best Pullen, as the guards in the NBA to manage in the NCAA Tournament last year against another Fredette Jimma. In his second round match to close Pullen a good job Fredette like almost every person in the last two seasons have been there to protect you 21 points on 5-of 13 shots.

On the other hand, exploded at the other end of the plant in 34 points on their account at a double digit victory.

Pullen is not without its faults though as a possibility. It is in the list of 6'0  , too small for the NBA two guard cells. He also fought to prove that he could one beneficial owner, barely registering in a 1:1 ratio to help sales.

In a game earlier this season against the Kyrie Irving and the Duke, looked nervous and completely overcome. Despite all this, however, that shares many of the same mistakes as a man and Jimma a passport to be supplied to go in the lottery, while the others are now in every shot in the league with imminent closure policy behind the design process to fight the sample .

Jimma is the perspective that I think the stronger of the two and certainly deserves to be drafted higher, but I also think that the difference between them was close enough for the recovery of Jacob Pullen.
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Popularity mad Fredette SportsCenter and coverage of the season turned out to be more support for their draft animals that many people are perceived at the time. Pullen, unfortunately ended in the new addition to external comments and antics of his game this season, could make things any better.

However, the journey of professional basketball beginning I wanted to be, but I hope you can the skeptics in the same way he has at Kansas State as a 3-star recruits who come into the school's scoring record to break silence.

Pat Riley feliz de Norris Cole

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Less than two weeks after losing the NBA Finals, the Miami Heat made their first addition to its list of 2011-12 through the selection of the Cleveland State point guard Norris Cole 28 with selection in the 2011 NBA draft.

Speaking at a media orientation teleconference Friday, said the Heat, Pat Riley, the president of the heat  felt sensitive  to the position of the leader and Cole, 6 feet 2 inches to a need. Riley was also the 22 years was 18 Ranked players on board heat.


The playmaker, who was originally from Dayton, Ohio, averaging 21.7 points, 5.8 rebounds and 5.3 helps in his senior season for Cleveland State, while the publication of an efficiency rate of 29, 5 players (PER).

The heat that originally held on 31 Selection in the draft, but made a trade with the Minnesota Timberwolves on the premises of the network 28 arrive at Cole. In turn, sent the Heat of the Pick 31, the second round take in the future and cash in Minnesota.

Riley was a possibility that another goal of the team on the 31st selection Cole The San Antonio Spurs, who agrees to sell his backup point guard George Hill for the Indiana Pacers in the draft on Thursday and the Bulls on 29 and 30 selections, each had held.

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Cole is expected that the back room for the Heat, who had been without foundation for the next season to strengthen.

Mike Bibby, who started 22 games in the heat of last season, is an unrestricted free agent and could leave Mario Chalmers as a restricted free agent.

Chris Bosh Cole very, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Udon Haslem, Mike Miller, Joel Anthony, Dexter Pittman Zydrunas Ilgauskas and heat in the list.

In a project with the bases stacked with talent, Riley said Cole nominal thermal output from  four or five  other point guards drafted before him.


Jimma Fredette, Iman Shumpert, Nolan Smith and Reggie Jackson were selected point guard in front of Cole in the draft Thursday.

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Heat fell in love with a speed of Cole and defensive capability of the point guard position.


Cole is no stranger to the court for the Heat. In the 2009 NCAA tournament, the basis of a revolution in Wake Forest in the first round has led to the American Airlines Arena. Cole recorded 22 points and four assists in a game in his second year.

NBA Draft 2011: What do the Bulls want

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After a brilliant victory in 62 regular season in 2010, the Chicago Bulls probably trying to problems that have undermined their rating in the playoffs Thursday night in the NBA to solve.
The Bulls probably have to sell in the first round of 28 and 30 and is to write or an international actor foreign policy and development in the second round on the observations made by the Bulls GM Gar Forman, the Bulls have not based three rookies to keep the alignment.
The Bulls need fans hope the Bulls in scoring takes care of their problems with an escort of confidence, making their way to the rotation can take in a few years. The Bulls can also be found with the results in other positions in the draft this year, however. You can also use a reliable backup for small forward Luol Deng, who is the best season of his career, he played more minutes in the finale of his defense and scoring skills. Bulls you will find a reliable backup of Jimmy Butler, Marquette, whose skills are very similar to that of Deng. The Bulls have never been afraid to get as big men, and the problems of the Bulls, if Kurt Thomas will be back next year, the Bulls could be a big power forward with a Security Support Boozer and Gibson.
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What WantIdeally Bulls want the Bulls to an immediate start points guard for a possible championship next year. It is unlikely that this is so late in the first round is because most of these players need time to develop or do not have the dynamic ability to support the Games. It is not impossible to find these players at the end of the project, the Bulls are in a position with the Taj Gibson # 22 in 2009, have made important contributions to the team were made from the beginning to develop. That means the Bulls will probably try to write at least a small step forward or guard with the ability scoring two selections. The Bulls coach Tom
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Thibodeau, a player who can buy into the philosophy of team defense, so do not be surprised if their selection to include players such as Johnson established programs the power forward / center JaJuan, Purdue point guard Nolan Smith, Duke, or combo Guards Shelvin Mack Butler. Oak Park native and Georgia Tech guard Iman Shumpert Combo is an interesting option, the strong brand name and blocked one-on-one defensive play at the table.