Night Moves

Later Hosens drop Speights for Nesterovic

The first move of the year! At last.

Marreesse Speights, the 16th overall pick of the (real) draft and the Hosen's 19th round pick, is a good prospect, and has had an eye opening preseason, but is not poised to be a fantasy force for some time (though Mo Cheeks is apparently high on him). Realistically, he's unlikely to get many minutes right off the bat with Brand, Dalembert, Ratliff, and I think Reggie Evans playing. They'll all get injured, but probably not at the same time.

Rasho is an old Waiver Wire standby, though not a sexy one. He was, it should be noted, a beast in March (13/7/1BLK) and April (16/7/1). 10 and 5 is a reasonable expectation. It turns out he was the 17th overall pick in 1998 (i.e., he's old). Other recent 17th overall picks: Jermaine O'Neal, Aaron McKie, Desmond Mason, Josh Smith, Danny Granger.

Judgment: Clearly a winning move by the Hosen. With a somewhat thin frontcourt, they can't wait around for Speights to mature, or Dalembert to hurt himself. Rasho should get plenty of minutes (T-Murph and Jeff Foster are the other big men in IND) and will be a help. By the way, I just found out that Kevin Love is white. I'm a bit shocked.