As for me, I've been breaking down video for the past two weeks getting ready for the NBDL draft which is Thursday night! There is actually a website called www.synergysportstech.com in which Mark Cuban is a major investor. I've never ever seen a more complete scouting tool. I can literally put in the name of any NBA, college or NBDL player and then pull up video clips of this player on offense, defense, transition, etc. It makes scouting and preparing for the draft much easier than trying to track down a million different DVD's to try to learn more about players. I can also stream digital video of full games, international players, and then do breakdowns of every single aspect of what a player's strengths are. The Synergy System is awesome and it's only a matter of time before every NBA team and college team is using it.

As part of this scouting process I'm going to introduce all of you basketball aficionados to a very interesting player. I've played with two of the best shot blockers ever to play in the NBA in Theo Ratliff and Eddie Griffin. There is a player named Jeral Davis who averaged over 7 blocks per game in college and who recently submitted his name for the NBDL draft! The Utah Flash head coach Brad Jones asked me to do a bit of research on Davis and then asked me what his numbers were. When I said "18 points, 7 blocks, ...." Brad stopped me and said, "Do you mean 7 rebounds?" I said, "It's hard to believe but he averaged 7 blocks per game!" So, anyway, it's exciting players like this that make our jobs fun. As the draft unfolds it will be interesting to see what happens with Jeral Davis and if we are able to get him. He is definitely a unique talent given that he is 7'1" and has a 40 inch vertical jump along with a wingspan of 7'9". In fact, he never played High School Basketball, but went on to become a dominant college player. It's up and coming athletes like Jeral Davis that make the NBDL an exciting and productive league in a lot of ways!