Tacko Evening: The giant that became a sensation for the summer league

lonelywolf (62)in #sportstalk • 5 years ago (edited)

There is a better chance that Taco Paul will not play in the NBA. The faults are just too obvious. It does not bother him to conquer the summer league in Las Vegas, with dances not seen every day and a constant smile

The basketball team at the University of Central Florida is not exactly one of the industry lions in the United States. For years, the Knights played at all in Division 2 and after the West to the senior division, they did not do too much. Until this year, they have only come four times to the college tournament and have never won or been ranked 14th in their area. No wonder then, that unusual things in the group did not really attract the attention of the media and the audience.

This year, however, it looks different. UCF entered the tournament from ninth place in the East and defeated Virginia Commonwealth University in the first round. In the next round, the draw arranged a meeting for her against the top 1 Duke. Of Zayne Williamson, of RJ Barrett, of Cam Rush, of Coach Kay.

Suddenly, for the first time, Central Florida was interesting and everyone focused mainly on the star of the previous game, Taco Paul. 13 points and 18 rebounds were against the VCU against the VCU, but what attracted the most attention was his 231 cm. His picture stands next to the line of lines Tracy Wolfson, 1.59 feet tall with shoes, blew up the Internet and turned it into a sensation overnight. Another good performance against Duke was almost enough, but Zayon's 32 points and a lot of luck sent Central Florida home and Taco, who finished his four years at the university, to look for the next challenge.

These days, while conquering the NBA Summer League, Paul manages to ignite the imagination of many industry enthusiasts, who recall other gullies such as Georges Morshan, Manut Bull (whose son Bull Bull was just chosen in the draft, unlike Taco) and, of course, Yao Ming. However, it is not at all certain that Tako will succeed in finding his place in the league.

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He came to Houston from Senegal only seven years ago and played football at first, but his height led him to a change of branch and he started training with Hakim Oljuan. Although he was the highest-ranking player in the United States, he had to make do with UCF.

In his encounter with UC Irwin, he faced the highest jump in the history of the colleges against his countryman Amado Nadia, who is 2.29 meters tall. Nadja was not selected for the draft and was interested in Golden State in the 2016 Summer League, but his career soon faded.

Paul himself thought of getting into the draft a year later, after two years in college, but gave up and then was injured in his next season, which dragged him to this summer. No group agreed to use a draft choice for him, despite the temptation. In the end, on June 21, he signed a 10-year minimum wage contract with Boston, which the group could become a two-way contract before the start of the season. Since the contract also does not include guaranteed salary, the team can also cut the player without consequences and despite the madness of the last days around Taco Paul in Las Vegas, the Celtics will almost certainly do so.

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Paul looks like a great guy (although he almost entered the game against Denver with the training shirt still on his body). Hundreds of people waited to receive a signature from him before the games in the summer league and he provided the goods for everyone. He did the same on the parquet, with a row of dances in which he barely had to jump or rebounds that he drew over the heads of the helpless players, including Yuval Sussman in a meeting against Cleveland.

Rocky Tremont Waters, the 51st choice of the Celtics in the latest draft, was asked what it was like to play with such a giant: "If we have a problem in the middle of the attack, we just throw the ball up and it will look like a great move." "It does not matter who keeps him, he's always at a disadvantage against a taco, there's nothing you can do except hit him or make a foul."

However, according to the local media in Boston, the Celtics, despite giving up the choice of 2016 from the 2016 draft, Gershon Javossele, there is no intention to include Taco in their squad at the moment, and at best he is supposed to enter the training camp with his current contract and get another chance to fight for his place.

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Paul's big problem is that he's just not really at the NBA level, despite the goodwill and the unusual Heights. He has a hard time producing a regular attack game, tends to disappear, and if they commit a foul on him, as Waters recommended to the rivalry, he barely makes it. In defense too, he does not have too much to contribute in the modern NBA and the older age relative to Rocky, 23, leaves little time or space to make serious improvements. Taco, it seems, can only be a gimmick at best.

The crowd in the summer league, as stated, is all less interesting at the moment and the fans in the stands demand that he get off the bench again and again. In the game the Celtics held on Tuesday night, he was waiting for him in the expected but amusing sign of "Taco Teuzadez," in the best tradition in the United States, even though he himself said he was named after his father's friend and not because his family liked the Mexican food. He also says he got used to the people staring at him and the bad jokes. "The summer league is a great experience so far for me, I feel blessed, I feel like I'm improving from game to game and can play in the NBA."

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Scott Morrison, who leads the Celtics in Vegas, said: "He was very impressed with me, he took some very complicated dedication and obviously you can not handle his height even though players climb on his back." The team's real coach, Brad Stevens, added: "The whole room was enthusiastic about him and it does not matter, he's modest and that's great."

"I do not know if he has a future in Boston, with all the highs they'll keep in the roster next season, but with his size and a few things he can do he'll find a place in the league one day," an NBA manager told NBC Boston after another show. In the summer league. When Paul dismantled Brandon Godwin with a foul, Denver player responded with an amused squeak: "Taco tried to kill me."

No matter what happens with Taco Paul down the road, whether he plays in Celtics, another NBA team or he might find himself moving to Europe. In the summer of 2019, he managed to get the industry fans to think and talk about it and it is not something simple in the days when Durant, Kwai and those who do not change teams and change the league.

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