What do you think of Darko Milicic? Will he ever turn into the player that Joe Dumars envisioned when he drafted him? — Mark

The kid has a nice soft shot that he can bury from as far out as a step past the foul line. He can drive both ways, and in the post shows a nifty left jump hook over his right shoulder. Being left-handed is a significant advantage for any player. Defense is a problem, and so is playing without the ball. And passing is what his teammates are supposed to do to him. He seems to have the skills (although, like everybody else, I haven't seen all that much of him), and his selfishness might be a result of trying to cram a week's worth of shots into whatever scarce daylight he did receive under Larry Brown. The real question is this: Has Brown's dismissive attitude destroyed the young man's self-confidence? The answer is: Who knows?

But you can be sure that the Flipster is under strict orders to give Milicic as much playing time as possible. Should his court-time remain drastically limited, then Brown indeed saw something that Dumars didn't. If it normally takes a young big man three years to prove his worth (or worthlessness) as an NBA player, I'd say that, given the circumstances, Milicic has another two seasons for his ultimate value to be determined.
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I don't know why anyone would want the opinion of a reporter or sports writer. Sometimes they can get good inside info, but it's amazing how uninformed and clueless these guys are. Now I agree with most of what this guy says, especially about the 2 years for Darko's "ultimate" value to be determined, but he is making a lot of poor assumptions and even admits he hasn't seen much of Darko.

Filler. No substance, but yet he offers a negative remark.

I don't really see how he can call Darko selfish. I mean, when he's out there in meaningful time he's not chucking up bad shots or something. Sure, when it's the finals seconds of a 30 point blowout he has been known to take a few to many 20 footers, but still.

It's pretty simple really. Charley Rosen is an idiot. Remember this is the guy who left Zeke off of his top 10 PGs of all time list.

I don't normally click through to his articles because he is a never-was blowhard who tries to impress with insight based upon speculation. Aka, a columnist.

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Nov 13 LW Milan Lucic had an active night. He scored his first goal in eight games since his Oct. 25 hat trick and also pounded Michael Komisarek in a third-period fight. Lucic cut his hand in a fight with Michael Komisarek. "I'll be fine," he said. "(X-rays are) negative, but there's so many broken bones in there from before you can't really tell."

getting some exposure off the back of darko. the world seems to be interested in darko and the in thing now by the uniformed is to print something about him. i just feel if you call yourself a sports reporter you should at least research what you are reporting. for this guy to call darko selfish shows me that he's probably never seen him play. darko sets pick after pick in garbage time. he usually shoots on called plays for him. he doesn't just jack up shots in garbage time like most players either. then he talks about darko on defense which we are all finding out is one of darko's strong points. where has this guy been over the summer? if we can get video of darko playing over in europe i'm sure he could.

In the ATLANTA game where he started, he did touch the ball alot and he was very quick to move the ball to the open man. I remember that lob play to Ben, WoW what a nice pass. He also had a nice no looker to Tay in the corner for a trey. Darko has NEVER STRUCK me as selfish. I hate it when guys have a "preconceived" notion of how a player is. The same can be said for Delfino. Alot of people dislike him and call him selfish. His oncourt play is definately NOT SELFISH. Delfino also "plays the right way". Delfino often looks to pass before shoot. Just because you don't like a guy's attitude doesn't mean that their play is what their "preconceived" attitude is.

I don't think Darko has ever been considered a selfish player. He teammates don't complain about it and they all seem to cheer hard for the kid. I just don't see it. This writer loses credibility with that statement.

SELFISH! How can someone call Darko selfish when all he plays is like 30 seconds a game. He doesn't even play enough.

Maybe his butt was taking up more than its fair share of space on the bench?

that was funny.