Blazers could dream big with Ha The 7-foot-3 South Korean teenage center works out for Portland, and team officials are impressed with what they see Thursday, May 20, 2004 JIM BESEDA TUALATIN -- By the time reporters were allowed in the Trail Blazers' practice facility Wednesday, draft prospect Ha Seung- Jin of South Korea already had his size 17 sneakers and socks off and was sitting on a table in the trainer's room. Despite aggravating a silver dollar-size blister on the bottom of his right foot, the 7-foot-3, 328-pound center from Seoul seemed in good spirits after going through an hourlong workout for the Blazers. If the 18-year-old blue-chipper could smile after that, he probably will be positively giddy in five weeks, when he is expected to become the first Korean-born player taken in the NBA draft. Ha is projected as a late first-round or early second-round pick, which means he could end up with almost any team. And that includes the Blazers. "He's really interesting because of his potential," Blazers general manager John Nash said. "He's such a young player. With his size and physical presence, you can only wonder what he will be three, four or five years down the road. Certainly, he has the physique to become a dominant player." So, how did Wednesday's session go? "Good," Ha said. "I had a fun time." That was almost all he had to say, because he still has yet to grasp English. But he is a 7-3, 238-pound teenager who can rebound. And if he ends up in Portland next season, Blazers coach Maurice Cheeks probably will find a way to communicate with him. The scouting report on Ha is thin. He has been called "the next Yao Ming," but comparing him to the Houston Rockets' center is unfair, because other than height and that they're Asian -- Yao is from Shanghai, China -- they have little in common. Ha has spent the past six months in Los Angeles, working out under the guidance of SFX Sports Group -- an international management and marketing agency -- but those workouts have been off-limits to pro scouts because Ha still is considered an underclassman. A few scouts, including Portland's Chico Averbuck, saw Ha play last August for the South Korean national team at the World Junior Championships in Greece. The consensus then was the same as it is now: Ha runs the court decently and has good hands, but he needs to develop physically, and his game needs to develop, too. Wednesday was the first opportunity for most of the Blazers' staff to see Ha and two other prospects -- 6-10, 288-pound Rafael Araujo from Brigham Young, and 7-3, 316-pound Jerry Sokolowski from Canada. "I was impressed by all three," Nash said. "You have a different level of expectation for every player. Rafael is more polished than the other two, because he's played more and had more experience. "Ha is much further along at 18 years of age than most of his contemporaries. I've been around very few players that are bigger than 7-2, and yet this guy is well-coordinated and is not at all robotic. He's very fluid. And he impressed the dickens out of us when he did a full split. "Do you take a big kid like this in the hopes that he blossoms into something? Maybe." The individual workouts help the coaches who usually don't get a chance to see prospects during the season, but they are a small part of the evaluation process. It's also difficult for teams to draw too many conclusions from individual workouts, because teams aren't allowed to do any drills that involve more than 2-on-2 play. "The problem with some of these guys, like this Korean kid, is nobody has had a long look at them," said Mark Warkentien, the Blazers' player personnel director. Still, somebody is going to draft Ha. "There are 30 first-round picks, but have you seen an NBA draft with 30 good players?" Warkentien asked. "At some point, you run out of good players and you start dreaming. If you're going to dream, you might as well dream 7-3 rather than 6-3. If you're going to miss, miss big." Assuming the Blazers don't get lucky in the draft lottery or move up in the order for the June 24 NBA draft, they will have three picks -- Nos. 13 and 23 in the first round and No. 46 in the second round. Ha is rated among the top 10 centers in the draft, but he's at the lower end of the list. That means the Blazers, whose greatest needs going into the draft are in the backcourt, probably won't use the 13th pick to take a center. And they probably can't wait until the second round if they hope to select Ha, because he should be gone long before No. 46. http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/sports/ 108505440029050.xml 　　河聲鎮的體型算是蠻壯碩的，七呎三吋，約330lbs的，真的是蠻 誘人的中鋒身材。不過東方人一長得高就會有一種通病，就是靈活度 的問題，現在就我看到的東方高大中鋒當中，姚明算是一大奇葩，他 雖然長得很高，卻在腳步和靈活度上具有一定的水準，即使我受到某 頻道的影響而不喜歡姚明，但是不可否認的是，姚明真的是東方高大 中鋒的代表。至於河聲鎮，他也是長得高，而且身體厚度夠的中鋒球 員，不過經驗應該還是讓他在選秀順位只有第一輪末段到第二輪前段 的主因吧？我覺得如果能讓他多打些職業水平的聯賽，再選擇加入選 秀，也許身價不會比Martynas Andriuskevicius或Pavel Podkolzine 等人差。至於拓荒者隊要不要選他，我想用第二輪那個46th pick 是 一個可行方案，不過要是我的話，我還是不太敢去賭。 -- 又是一個高大中鋒了！2004 Darft中的中鋒球員好像不到七呎就 不是中鋒了！XD --

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