[Michael Scotto] The Minnesota Timberwolves have agreed to deals with Skylar Mays and Eugene Omoruyi, sources told @hoopshype. Mays appeared in 38 combined games for the Portland Trail Blazers and Los Angeles Lakers last season. Omoruyi appeared in 43 games for the Washington Wizards last season.
by irishace88
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I’ll never forget that terrible Blazers game where Kevin Knox and Skylar Mays beat a relatively full strength Wolves team fighting to get out of the play-in.
Omuruyi busted the Wolves’ ass a while back with his hustle and energy.
Love bringing dudes like that in for camp.
I am shocked Mays is not on the Blazers rebuilding plan. He looked good in some of those games but I am not sure, can’t say I watched a lot of blazer games
Hang the banner now!!! So who are these guys?
skylar mays can absolutely be an nba player, although he is a bit older than i realized. he’s someone that might end up factoring in for us
I remember Omoruyi getting some (un)timely offensive rebounds against us a few years ago that definitely raised my blood pressure. Contending teams can always use guys like him who are willing to stay ready and do the dirty work when needed.
Skylar Mays is actually decent
Reach for the SKYLAR!
Blazers fan here, Mays a pretty decent player and kind of a fan favorite. He’s been cold shooting the ball last year but he definitely knows how to run an offense pretty well, and I think he’s a better shooter than this year’s numbers might suggest (career 34% from three, and was a 35% guy in college too). And he’s also not a complete disaster defensively like so many other third string PGs.
He’s played a lot of garbage time where he just comes in for 5 minutes, goes 0/2 or something which skews his stats, but in 20 career games where he’s played more than 20 minutes (as of the time when he got cut from the Blazers so not including his Lakers stats), he’s averaging 13ppg, 6.1apg, 3.4 rpg on 49/38/88 (58% TS) splits with only 1.3 turnovers per game so I think he’s for sure a NBA rotation quality player.