Didi not coming over for next season

Didi Louzada and the Sydney Kings have just announced that he is staying there for one more season, so he is definitely not coming over this year.

I?m back Sydney fans ✊�� https://t.co/b7FJpicqv6

— Didi Louzada (@Didi) September 30, 2020

I wouldnt say definitely. We still have the option to bring him over this season. He just wouldnt start the season with us.

I dont think he is coming over, and if he does, he wont be in the rotation anyway. In fact, Langdon has said that he thinks whoever we take at 13 will likely spend the season in the G-League, not in our rotation. More and more evidence that this team will be trying to win games with vets this year. I wouldnt bank on a ton of young guys getting playing time

If you read the article we can bring him over at any time. If we want to bring him in tomorrow it's our choice:

https://www.thebirdwrites.com/2020/9...ver-zion-lonzo

Good for Didi. Let him stay over there and continue to develop... I'd rather him get minutes over there than rot on our bench.

Stay in Australia Didi, they have Covid taken care of there, here we are still fighting to get past phase 2.

too young now so make sense.

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Originally Posted by MichaelMcNamara

I wouldnt say definitely. We still have the option to bring him over this season. He just wouldnt start the season with us.

I dont think he is coming over, and if he does, he wont be in the rotation anyway. In fact, Langdon has said that he thinks whoever we take at 13 will likely spend the season in the G-League, not in our rotation. More and more evidence that this team will be trying to win games with vets this year. I wouldnt bank on a ton of young guys getting playing time

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This is doubly true if we end up hiring Lue as coach. Part of the reason he ended up on the outs in Cleveland was that he had basically no interest in playing any of their young talent and wanted to try and go full-on riding the vets, while FO wanted to pivot to a full youth movement. Lue has no interest in playing youth or being the steward of developing talent

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Originally Posted by UNO Gracias

Stay in Australia Didi, they have Covid taken care of there, here we are still fighting to get past phase 2.

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We are in phase 3.1 now

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We are in phase 3.1 now

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Congrats hermano. That’s big news, but I wouldn’t get overly excited (because of the LaToya).

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Originally Posted by donato

If you read the article we can bring him over at any time. If we want to bring him in tomorrow it's our choice:

https://www.thebirdwrites.com/2020/9...ver-zion-lonzo

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True. i posted that before. That was even the case last year.

DiDi Update:

The Sydney Kings have played seven games; DiDi has played in three of them.

He is averaging 5.00/1.33/2.00 while shooting 23% from the field and FT's @ 40% Clip

In the games he has played in, he's averaged 20.15 minutes in playing time.

Like I said earlier, he will never play in the NBA.

https://www.sydneykings.com/player/3...9/didi-louzada

Oh yeah. He does exist, doesn't he?

Another Griff special

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Stay in Australia Didi, they have Covid taken care of there, here we are still fighting to get past phase 2.

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Warmer in Australia right now. They don’t have to worry about the power companies blowing up the power grids down there.

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Originally Posted by AusPel

Another Griff special

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Yeah. Don’t. Are you seriously about to blame him if a 2nd rounder doesn’t work out? As if that is anything by typical?

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Yeah. Don’t. Are you seriously about to blame him if a 2nd rounder doesn’t work out? As if that is anything by typical?

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It's part of the whole Pick 4 catastrophe, so it is perfectly relevant

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DiDi Update:

The Sydney Kings have played seven games; DiDi has played in three of them.

He is averaging 5.00/1.33/2.00 while shooting 23% from the field and FT's @ 40% Clip

In the games he has played in, he's averaged 20.15 minutes in playing time.

Like I said earlier, he will never play in the NBA.

https://www.sydneykings.com/player/3...9/didi-louzada

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Of course. The hot take king back at it again.

He's just coming back from ankle and back injuries. The ankle injury seemed serious. Why wouldn't you mention that hot take king? Just a question from a peasant.

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/basketb...26-p56wz8.html

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The Kings’ injury curse has seemingly returned for the 2021 season after star Didi Louzada was carried off with an ankle injury during his side’s 90-87 loss against the Brisbane Bullets on Tuesday afternoon.

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A fully fit Didi would be tearing up the NBL, obviously. Just like he did last year

I mean, he probably won't ever play in the NBA. That's not unusual for a dude taken in the 30s. Not really sure why you'd specifically get annoyed at Griff at that, unless you also want to get angry at the Raptors for taking Dewan Hernandez in the second round of the same draft, knowing he's basically never gonna get a look at real NBA time either. Most 2nd rounders aren't going to ever play, sorry.

You're right, P'Daeddy.

L'Didi doesn't deserve any vitriol from anyone. Sometimes you get unfairly adjudged guilty by association through no fault of your own

Just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

And most 2nd rounders don't get invested in very much either. Kinda like Tony Carr getting tossed around in the g-league/summer league for years and nothing more.

And the way this works...Didi coming over isn't contingent on him tearing up the NBL. Wil Magnay's NBL stats were worse than Didi's last year, yet they went out and signed him and he's on the G-league team now.

But I digress. I think it's time to keep Lonzo again. They won.

Somehow I managed to miss my hometown team the Wildcats play the Kings tonight, but it seems Didi had one of his bestest games in the NBL with 19 points, 3 assists and 5/9 threes

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Somehow I managed to miss my hometown team the Wildcats play the Kings tonight, but it seems Didi had one of his bestest games in the NBL with 19 points, 3 assists and 5/9 threes

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The good thing for Didi is he always has an impact beyond the box score. He?s sound defensively with the potential to be great. He?s asked to do far more off the dribble for the Kings than he will here, which is part of the reason for his poor shooting.

5 threes with one off of movement and 3 off the dribble is super impressive. That's not something he'll be asked to do often early on with the Pels, but it's nice to know it is there. He's up to 30% now from 3 through 5 games. I'm not worried about the percentage given the sample size and the things mentioned above.

His high end offensive outcome is probably someone like Kevin Huerter. Low end might be Lu Dort (without his hot start).

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5 threes with one off of movement and 3 off the dribble is super impressive. That's not something he'll be asked to do often early on with the Pels, but it's nice to know it is there. He's up to 30% now from 3 through 5 games. I'm not worried about the percentage given the sample size and the things mentioned above.

His high end offensive outcome is probably someone like Kevin Huerter. Low end might be Lu Dort (without his hot start).

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I said it before, that flick-of-the-wrist shot of his is nice. Not worried about his shooting at all. I also saw he recently gave an interview in english and did pretty well.

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I said it before, that flick-of-the-wrist shot of his is nice. Not worried about his shooting at all. I also saw he recently gave an interview in english and did pretty well.

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Great point. Imagine trying to go play basketball in Brazil and not knowing how to speak Portuguese. The difficulty really can't be quantified, but you have to imagine that it negatively impacts his numbers. I'd hope we would add one of the Brazilian national team coaches to the end of the bench whenever we do decide to bring him over.

That was pretty impressive. He may be NBA calibre yet

Watching Sydney v Melbourne and Didi isn't even starting

RIP

Didi been invisible the whole game

He basically = NAW

Didi makes a nice move all the way to the cup and NAW's the finish

Didi shoots a three, nothing but air

NAW would be proud

Didi drives with his left, puts it high off glass AND! it smashes off glass out to the free throw line

Live look at NAW

https://media1.tenor.com/images/7e0b...2921/tenor.gif

Mods change the title to: Didi not coming over ever

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Mods change the title to: Didi not coming over ever

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I have this strange feeling he'd actually play up to better competition, but I'm probably wrong

Didi with the nifty move under the bucket and lays it in with the left!

#SignDidi

2 seconds left Kings down 1, the ball akwardly bounces out to Didi who!!!!

Accidentally boots the ball the length of the court and out of bounds

LEL

Thank God that's over.

NAW Jnr ends with 4 points 2/7, 2 rebounds, 1 assist and 2 turnovers

#AllGriffDoesIsWork