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Pooh Jeter Emerging As Potential Cavaliers Roster Signing

July 17, 2010 by 15 Comments

The Cleveland Cavaliers will not be a good team this season. Whether they rebuild immediately or not, the team will clearly not be a championship contender in 2010-2011 and will be a fringe playoff team at best. In the meanwhile however, interesting story lines are developing with the summer league team in Las Vegas.

One of the best is the surprise of point guard Pooh Jeter, who nailed an impressive three-pointer with only 6.9 seconds remaining to give undefeated Cleveland an 81-80 victory over the Chicago Bulls Friday night. Jeter finished with 20 points, seven assists and only two turnovers in the contest, continuing a solid stretch of play in three games played for the Cavs team.

It’s been a work in progress implementing Byron Scott’s fast-paced offense, but Jeter might be developing as the best non-roster prospect out there. The 26-year-old out of University of Portland could add some depth to the back court especially in the case of a trade.

In his three games for the overachieving summer league Cavs, the “better” Jeter is now averaging 16.0 points along with 6.7 assists and only one turnover on 50% shooting from the field. He averaged 18.5 points along with about three assists and boards during his senior season in 2005-2006 before becoming a journeyman throughout Europe and the NBDL.

His handling of the Byron Scott offense has been a huge plus for the team so far, enabling players like J.J. Hickson (24.3 pts per game) and Danny Green (11.3 pts per game) to have much more success than usual. Who knows whether Mo Williams, Sebastian Telfair or any other potential guard on the team will be able to have this kind of efficiency with the new style, but at least it looks good for right now.

For those interested, Jeter also kept a blog of his summer league adventures from a season ago including some memories of his time hanging around the Cavs. It is a feel good story for all to enjoy and his heroics Friday could be a signal of a potential payday for him too.

(Photo above via Menorca Basketball Team)

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  • http://www.twitter.com/core013 Laura

    I just want him on the team for his name. Pooh and Boobie could make for some fun announcing.

  • stin4u

    Watched the game against D-league select and he looked pretty good. He’s a very very small guy but he’s extremely quick and agile and were not getting any better at guard through FA sooooo….why not?

  • Goat2321

    @1 that was exactly what I was thinking as well…. could we be this lucky!?!?!

  • MP34

    Can Pooh play defense?

    @stin4u, I still chuckle every time I see your avatar.

  • Alex

    Id say a hungry player for cheap is perfect for the cavs this year, plus like mentioned before, Pooh and Boobie is a great backcourt.

    Now let’s package up Mo and Jamison for more “assets”.

  • david

    its just dumb to start an article with “the cavs will not be good this year”. As the team is currently constructed they will fight for a 6-8 seed to get the playoffs. They will probably have a winning record. But thats beside the point; we have no idea what the roster will look like come October. We have several assets and a fresh start.

  • Paul

    Yeah, I agree with David, why would you start an article this way? The Cavs are not that bad…LeBron was not the whole team! We have some nice pieces and are only a couple players away from being a top team in the EC. However, since we haven’t done anything so far, it looks like we are not going to get those players and therefore we need to focus on rebuilding. Still, you should not start the article like this even though I do understand what you were trying to say.

  • joe

    well lets look at who made it last year, vs. who is likely to make it again:

    teams that got better or stayed the same:
    boston
    magic
    hawks
    heat
    bucs
    bulls

    cusp teams:
    bobcats (lost felton?)
    new york (jury is still out)

    new york won 32 games last year and will probably win at least 7 more losing lee but adding stoudemire and felton. so Cleveland will have to be a 500 ish team to make the top 8, just like last year. i’m a die hard fan, but we don’t have a PG, SF, or a C. i’m not putting any money down on playoff tickets.

  • Its not us lebron, its you.

    Who would ever start an article like that? unbelievable.

  • Gren (not Glen)

    Let’s all criticize the way Jacob started the article.

    Or we can be optimistic that the Cavs might have a young PG to watch this year, without using a single draft pick. He looks like a good player, Summer League or not. Hopefully we can trade Boobie or Mo and free up a PG spot for him. I think we’ve seen all that Mo has to offer, maybe see what Boobie can do running the show. He is far removed from his injury now and should be able to show whatever he has.

  • MattyFos

    I do not think “we’ve seen all that Mo has to offer”
    We haven’t seen him in Scott’s offense.
    We haven’t seen him as a PG without LBJ’s dribble dribble dribble shoot.
    I belive Mo (27) is young enough and with a reasonable contract (3yr/8per) to keep.
    Now, from what I’ve heard* about Pooh Jeter, by all means bring him in. But Scott wants to try Telfair out. Jeter may be the guard version of Jawad Williams, very limited minutes. Scott plays two guards who can push, which will help Jeter make a case for playing time. We all expect AP to lose minutes. But do not, give Mo’s minutes to a Euro-journey man/NBADL talent. Sorry.

    *I keep intending to watch the Summer League games I just keep forgetting. It’s horrible.

  • Shamrock

    Kudos to Jacob for being real because I have a better chance at winning the lottery then the Cavaliers do at winning. I don’t know about Pooh but that roster looks like s#&@ – not trying to start anything. The fact that the Cavaliers still can’t do anything to improve their roster doesn’t look good but hopefully that changes, I hope, pray.

  • dr. cleveland

    HOW COULD YOU EVER START AN ARTICLE LIKE?

    /has realistic expectations for the Cavs.

  • steven

    Yeah I agree with matty…I think mo has a reasonable contract and we should keep him for at least the begining of the season and see how he runs the show. Also, I might be the only one who thinks this but I really think we should try and deal gibson somewhere because he really isn’t worth 4mil a year

  • SxDx

    The fans in the Q arent booing, theyre saying “POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH”