2k6-2k7 REPORT CARD: Adonal Foyle

relieving us of 34% of Mullin's mistake.

He was only the 4th most remembered person in the ak-47 dunk. "Look at the reaction of veteran Adonal Foyle from the bench."

At least Adam Lauridsen has some semblence of how to rate players.

Hash: I'm coming for you! Make a run for it, before you must face my wrath!

As for the GSoM crew: you guys don't know true talent. Nellie ball comes back and all of a sudden we're rating a guys offense. Trying to judge him on what he did this season? Puh-leaze. Don Nelson gave him 5 minutes (in which nothing momentous happened) to prove himself, and then he confines him to the bench for the rest of the season. Talk about crap.

Adonal will come back for you....and when he comes back to the Oracle, he will put the SMACK DOWN on all of you who have hated his basketball skills for so long.

Watch out for Defensive Player of the Year!

Adonal Foyle does get an A for being an inspiring figure in the Warriors' locker room. He was a Warriors lifer who's been with the squad for a decade. He has kept his professionalism throughout his tenure with our beloved team. He didn't complain about PT and never does. It was just unfortunate that he was paid a lot more than we would have bargained for. His defense and hustle proved very crucial for us for the better part of his 10 years with us. If Foyle would have trained a bit more, he would have been a poorman's Ben Wallace. Maybe, some other team will hone his skills well enough to make him into that kind of player.

(Okay maybe F for Foyle, but that's a surname!)

You can't give him a 100% crap F when he took less money in his buyout, as always taking one for the team for the better good, never really giving you a legit reason to hate on him.

Andris Biedrins came into his own and became the best center prospect possible for the run and gun style.

Even if Foyle was a 10 rebound guy, you're not going to have him on the floor at the same time as Andris, in any game with such an uptempo offense implemented. Foyle outlet passing notwithstanding. combine the Foyle outlet pass with AB's speed and length into one player and then you got something!

So to say you wanted soo much production out of him, that would have taken away key minutes from AB anyway. And instead of subbing C for C in foul/fatigue moves, Nellie wanted to throw Big Al into the mix for the mismatches, even if you lose the post presence and rebounding/shot contesting.

You knew out of the first few years of Duncan and Foyle's respective careers who was going to be what. Kinda late to expect a similar player. Foyle's salary also didn't hamper bringing in the mid season moves and turnaround of the team and in one more year with the next season expiring would have been an asset to get another rotation player, nobody major playing the chances, but someone else in an MP2 kinda bench/spotting minutes role as has been mentioned before in the Foyle Buyout threads on GSoM here.

for best payed add-on -Foyle

i think he's not so bad player as written in lot of coments
-and not so good as Zorgon says
-i think hes value is about 2,5 for season and that says how good i rate him

don't blame him
-blame W's management -he deserved every cent he get

Pluses:

• He is a good rebounder. Terry Cummings tutored him in the fine art of blocking out.
• He has amazing shot blocking timing. But to Atma's point, he seemed to only want to go after shots in spurts. I have no idea why.
• He is, by all accounts since I never met him, a good guy who cares about the world.

Minuses:

• Dropped passes
• Free Throws
• Refusal to follow the coach's instructions and abandon all offensive aspirations.
• Lack of any improvement in any area of his game except for that one drop step move he learned at big man camp which only works from a specific spot in the right side of the low post.

THE SINGLE MOST AGGRAVATING THING ABOUT FOYLE'S GAME:

- His horrible screen setting. It always looked like he was playing tag instead of setting a pick. He would touch the guy he was supposed to be setting the pick on and roll to the basket after .5 of a second. For one thing, it didn't work because he wasn't actually screening the guy so nobody got open. The other thing is, why was he rolling to the basket? So he could drop the pass? Not finish if he managed to retain the ball after fumbling it a couple times? Or somehow get fouled and miss on or two of his free throws? The point is, he never set a proper screen and it seemed like the reason was he was soo eager to roll to the basket so he could turn the ball over or miss a shot or free throws.

Bottom line: He did on or two things really well and a bunch of things abysmally. He gets a "D" for being a below average basketball player but he gets an "F" for not making the most of what he was good at by refusing to playing within himself and just concentrate on rebounding, defending and blocking shots. Oh, and learning how to set a screen. That's all on him.

I can't believe people are still surprised to see that Zorgon thinks Foyle is awesome. Don't try to convince him otherwise. It's true love.

And as far as Foyle's defense goes one block every ten minutes or so isn't bad any way you look at it. Nellie could have asked him to block every shot but seriously what do you want from the guy. He clearly blocked all the shots he could in his limited time with his limited hops.

I will close with a quote from Rex Chapman while doing a W's game on espn, right after they listed Foyles career blocks. "Thats a lot of blocks for a guy who can't jump over a phone book!" or something to that effect.

I seem to have some vague recollection of OD being a starting center when Mike Montgomery was coach.  Maybe he started for some other Warrior coach, too, but the memory is all very cloudy now.  I try to think about it, but then I scrunch my face and pass out.