what the
Years ago

Heal yes... Farley ... no - what the ???

This is what i remember from a couple of years ago...

Phil found Willie at a Lakers training camp and recruited him.

Willie again tried for NBA - again at the lakers - with no luck.

Heal has a try out and gets a go with the Spurs - when they were going well, with reasonable minutes.

Obviously Farley is a better player - did he only want to play for Lakers? - why would spurs look to Heal?

or did one have a specific quality that either team wanted?

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Jimmy
Years ago

just might have been the kind of player they were after...seeing as heal hardly got any minutes, the spurs were prbably just looking for some 3 pt range and as much as i hate to say it, heal can hit the 3, altho anyone can hit a 3 when you take 10 3pt shots a game!!! they are different players so teams willlook at them differently...but no doubt willie has the bette all round game@!!!

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Anonymous
Years ago

heal is clearly a better shooter

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Anonymous
Years ago

heal is clearly a better shooter

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Jimmy
Years ago

agreed anon, he is the better shooter...sometimes willie throws up some dogdy ones, but half the time, they go in!@!!!

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Anonymous
Years ago

farley doesnt hav the body for the nba so if he would make it he would hav 2 b a damn good perimeter shooter. i do not rate farley as a perimeter shooter and he takes shots at wrong situations. heal was just a lil pik up 4 the spurs, no game time but when he was on the didnt hav him there to penitrate to the hoop he was strictly there 4 his outside shot. kind of lyk how the spurs used classic veteran steve kerr in their championship finals game. no handles, just shooting the lights out wif his 3-point shot.

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Libertine
Years ago

If I remember correctly Brett Brown (ex-Sydney coach) was on the coaching staff (still is, maybe?) with the Spurs - that's why Heal, and Gaze both got roster shots as the team's 3 pt shooter. Gaze in memory played a few games but in the playoff run didn't make the 12, whereas Heal got cut when Tony Parker came back from injury.

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deak
Years ago

Heal went to the Spurs for the same reason that Gaze did - Brett Brown recruited him. Brett Brown has been an assistant at the Spurs for a number of years now. And yes, he has 2 NBA championships.

To say that Willie doesn't have an NBA body is a stretch. They don't all look like Ben Wallace and Karl Malone you know . . .

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Libertine
Years ago

Would Reggie Miller even have an NBL body?

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Anonymous
Years ago

willie farley is probably a bit slow off of the dribble and his shot selection needs redefining, other than that he is a great player and he would be an nba player with around 7 minutes a game id say

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mark
Years ago

Heal was a fillin for the Spurs when almost every PG on their roster got injured before the start of the season. He had like 1 decent game and ended up being with the team for only a few weeks.

Willie Farley is too short to play SG in the NBA. His ball handling isn't good enough to play PG and his outside shooting is streaky. He is a fantastic player in the NBL, but his game isn't particularly suited to the NBA, let alone all NBL clubs as seen by his time with the Pigs.

Reggie Miller on the other hand is 6'7" and reasonably tall for a SG. However players in Reggie's mould (Rip Hamilton), SG's that spend a lot of time running off screens are somewhat advantaged by having a slighter frame.

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Hoops

Heal yes... Farley ... no - what the ???

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