Alan Anderson in Italy

[tamburello]

A reliable Turkish website announced that Turkish powerhouse Efes Pilsen is close to signing one of those three players, Rawle Marshall, Alan Anderson and Coby Karl.

The manager of Efes Pilsen said that the club narrowed their choices for the new scorer player of the club to three nominees, Rawle Marshall, Alan Anderson and Coby Karl. He also added that there is little chance for the signing of Coby Karl.

So it looks like Alan Anderson won't stay with us next year either way. What do you think about it?

By the way this is the website but it's Turkish, though
http://www.ntvspor.net/pages/12985.asp

[Geraldmutumbo]

Go luck AA. He's cool, but he is an end of bench guy.

[dav7z]

Good luck to A. Anderson we just so crouded on the wings now. With playing time he'll be back in the N.B.A.

[Dead_Real]

I wish him luck hopefully he can have a productive career where ever he ends up.

[Slam]

Hopefully this creates the room on the roster to bring back D.Anderson.

If Coby Karl isn't signed by the Lakers I have a pretty good feeling it will be him hitting up the Turkish league.

[timang]

Hopefully this creates the room on the roster to bring back D.Anderson.

If Coby Karl isn't signed by the Lakers I have a pretty good feeling it will be him hitting up the Turkish league.

i seem to agree w/ that. but hey, wishing you luck Mr. A. Anderson!

[dvdbumpus]

He was pretty good as an injury replacement and end of the roster player, but nothing to cry over. Good luck AA!

Now let's bring back D. Anderson.

[tamburello]

I had originally created this thread as "Alan Anderson to Turkey?". It's now so unlikely, according to hoopsworld.com, he's now headed to Cleveland Cavaliers.

http://www.hoopsworld.com/article_23203.shtml

[spectre]

I've always liked AA...he is pretty good offensively and one of our better defensive wings. With the way Hammer came on tho it had to happen. If he had better handles I'd have loved to kept him as a 3rd SG/PG but oh well.

I thought this was pretty good (from Tam's Hoopsworld article):

"He was always at training camp, came to practices, came to games, but he wasn't really hands-on. We spoke a few times, individually, but he never really addressed the team. He would pull us aside every now and then and say some encouraging words and tell us what he thought we needed to do. He emphasized that I need to have confidence in myself, versus him having confidence in me. I have to believe in myself before anybody else will. Like, if I was out there and didn't take a shot with confidence he would probably say something to me, tell me to work on that specific thing. I should know I can make it before I even take it - things like that. He really tried to build us up."

I like that. Jordan doing that with our young guys is valuable stuff.

[Slam]

Fair to say that he's learnt from his mistake with Kwamee? I know that Kwamee was said to be "his pick" but the most troublesome thing about that whole chapter was hearing just how hard Jordan would ride Kwamee.

Sounds like MJ has come to the conclusion that it's best to take a step back and watch from a far and offer more postive stuff than negative.


I wish AA well. I liked him and thought he was a hard worker and compared to Hughes, he's going to look like an all star shooter on the Cavs roster!!