Before the season started, I didn’t know what, if anything, to expect from Harry Giles. I knew that he had been drafted as an injured dude who was at one point a top prospect in the nation, but perhaps wasn’t one any longer. I figured that anything he did in the NBA was just a bonus.
Well, I’ve had to adjust my thinking because Giles has been giving the Kings a LOT of bonuses. With most of their young core, you could kind of see that the potential was there for them to grow into, but I had no idea if Giles fit that mold or not. Was he a gimped cripple-man or was he a diamond in the rough just waiting to prove that he was a top prospect for a reason? Now I know. He’s definitely the latter. I know this because he moves around like he’s not crippled at all.
It’s a good thing that Georgios Papagiannis didn’t pan out at all because either he would be stealing minutes from Giles right now or Giles would be stealing minutes from Papagiannis. The real minutes stealing right now is that somebody (or somebodies) is stealing Skal Labissiere’s minutes. I want to put in an OFFICIAL REQUEST for whoever’s stealing Labissiere’s minutes to please stop stealing them.