Samb & Acker tracker

Would it be OK if we dump 2 players?

Informative piece from McCoskey ...Has some info on Samb, Acker, Amir & Brevin Knght:

"Cheick has been hurt, which for us is useful in the fact that he's already gained 23 pounds of muscle and he looks great without losing any quickness," said Tony Ronzone, international scout and director of basketball operations for the Pistons. "He practices with the Barcelona team and he also plays and practices with a (junior) team in Cornella. He is definitely improving and we are very excited about his future."


Put on 23 LBS of muscle?

He should be pushing 155 lbs now!

How much is that snow going for?... It has ebay potential.
I likada Samba Mama

If he really did put on that much weight, he should be steroid tested. That is absolutely impossible to add that much muscle that quickly.

Maybe he had this metabolism all along... jess couldn't find Big Macs in his country.... My guess is they've put him on a weight training program (muscle weighing more than fat).... but yeah that would be an unprecedented weight gain since the SL.
If he can get up around 260 in the next couple years we may be looking at our center of the future.

I don't really know much about about this subject, but are there many documented cases of guys that skinny gaining significant weight in a legitimate fashion? In other words, does Samb have the potential to ever carry a lot of weight?

Tayshaun Prince for example just doesn't seem like he could bulk up if he wanted to.

Were the mangos encased in a whole pig? Or were the mangos in a pie made with lard? Or is Mango an African word for Big Mac? I need to know so I can avoid those mangos.

Ted Nugent knows about this phenomenon... he calls it the Mango Tango

A little refresher on Draftexpresses opinions on Samb

Some other draft info on Samba Mama from Sports Illustated:
ANALYSIS: Few players who will be picked in the 2006 NBA Draft have less experience than Samb, but that doesn't mean he isn't an exciting prospect. On the contrary, Samb has exhibited shotblocking abilities that would put him among the best rejecters in Europe, if only he had enough experience to play at a higher level. Samb played his first professional season this year in LEB2, which is the third-highest professional league in Spain. He signed a contract with Unelco Tenerife, a club in the ACB, Spain's highest level, but he has competed at lower levels in order to gain experience. In his first season, Samb blocked more shots himself than all but one of the teams in LEB2. He also averaged 9.6 points and 7.7 rebounds, pretty good numbers considering his utter lack of experience. With a normal progression, Samb might be ready to play at Spain's highest level, the ACB, in two more years. In the past, clever NBA teams have selected prospects like Samb and let them develop in Europe for a few years before signing them to play in the NBA. Denver drafted Francisco Elson in 1999, then let him develop for four years in Spain until they felt he was ready for the NBA. Elson has had three productive seasons as a frontcourt reserve for the Nuggets. Perhaps some team will show the same foresight and draft Samb.

"Best case scenario = Mikki Moore" it says on the right.

Why would we want that? We already had the 'best case scenario' on our team and we waived him.

Moore played for 9 teams + CBA + NBDL + Europe.


It is probably wise to not get excited about this prospect at all if the Mikki Moore level is his ceiling.

VP of the Samba Mama club says no doubting allowed... he's gonna be using that sleek freak athleticism to dunk on Darko's noggin... wait till you see those half court shots.
We could play him some at SF... some at center and some at PG (7'1" A.I. baby)
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We got so many prospects, we don't know what to do with them all.

JMax, Amir, Acker, Blalock, Samb, our first round draft picks. We could fill up a whole D-League team ourselves.