Day 3 of Minneapolis Workout Features Quite The Combination (and Luc Louves)

by Scott Schroeder on May 26, 2010 9:00 AM EDT in NBA Draft 2010

The list of players working out in Minneapolis today brings about quite an eclectic bunch:

Morning Session

Ryan Thompson, G, Rider

Elijah Millsap, G, UAB

Matt Bouldin, G, Gonzaga

Lazar Hayward, F, Marquette

Charles Garcia, F, Seattle

Trevor Booker, F, Clemson

In that bunch we have:

Jason Thompson's brother
Paul Millsap's brother (but not John)
a guy TAFKA Mike Bourn wishes was his brother
An under-than-over-and-now-sufficiently hyped power forward that no longer has attitude problems
My draft sleeper (mostly based on the fact that this highlight video is mixed to my favorite Roy Jones Jr. rap song)
and Lazar Hayward - I really don't have much to say about him, so here are some highlights CBS put together of him (though they thought he was Gordon Hayward - honest mistake?).

and that's just the morning session.

Afternoon Session

Jerome Randle, G, California

Scottie Reynolds, G, Villanova

Landry Fields, G/F, Stanford

Tim Ohlbrecht, F, Germany

Luc Louves, F, France

Luke Harangody, F, Notre Dame

In the afternoon session we have:

the MVP of the Portsmouth Invitational
the classic four-year-college-star-that-doesn't-project-well-to-the-NBA (unless you ask Mike Fratello)
Draft Express' player blogger
The guy getting dunked on here
The bigger, but not too big, version of the classic four-year-college-star-that-doesn't-project-well-to-the-NBA
A dude who didn't play basketball at all this past season.

Take notice, please, that I found you a link for every player except "dude who didn't play basketball at all last season." That is, quite frankly, because I don't know what he's been doing for the last year (or why he's in the draft).

Yesterday we talked about guys that nobody really knew enough about in Latavious Williams and Ryan Richards, but Luc Louves is somebody nobody seems to know about - so let's learn about him.

I know you're asking the obvious question first, Rodney Dangerfield style: "How unknown is he?"

~~He's so unkown that~~

Well, Draft Express hasn't updated their scouting report about him since September 5th, 2007. His agency hasn't updated his profile on their website lately either, apparently, claiming he's an "NBA 1st round draft prosepct for 2008 or 2009" (and yes, that is their typo - not mine). Chad Ford has updated his scouting report on Louves more recently, though the attached picture shows Louves as a white European with a Matt Bouldinesque moptop. In reality though, and according to his Facebook profile, Louves has dreads that are apparently more photogenic than the rest of his face.

Louves' Facebook also says his religion is "black power" and that he's currently living in Atlanta, Georgia (hopefully working on playing basketball, but I don't know).

All of that said, I'm beginning to wonder if these workouts in Minneapolis are really that beneficial unless teams are scouting early for Summer League (or have late second round picks).

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