Mike Gansey knows the numbers
June 2, 2010 by Mike Casazza
Maybe Mike Gansey could have parlayed his surge in the NBA D-League season into a spot on a summer league roster with one of the interested NBA teams. He instead took an offer from the D-League select team to play in the Las Vegas Summer League against NBA summer squads.
A characteristically smart play by Gansey, a veteran of summer league’s past.
“Say you’re with the Washington Wizards or the Philadelphia 76ers,” the 6-foot 4-inch Gansey said. “They’ve got draft picks, young guys and returning guys. Those guys are going to play.“On the D-League team, you don’t have to worry about that. You know you’re going to get your minutes to show NBA people, European scouts and whoever else is there what you can do.”
Kudos to the writer, Duane Rankin, who has traveled the talent pipeline to Erie, Pa., for the supplemental graphic showing the two Ganseys this past season.
Different team, different player
Here’s a comparative look at how Mike Gansey played in the D-League this past season with the Idaho Stampede and the Erie BayHawks. The BayHawks traded the second overall pick in the 2009 D-League draft, combo guard Donell Taylor, for Gansey, whom Idaho took in the sixth round.Idaho Erie
GMS 11 (1) 27 (26)
PPG 9.6 18.4
RPG 4.3 8.2
APG 2.2 2.8
FG% 50 45.4
3PT% 35.9 32.6
FT% 85.7 82.4
(Starts)40-minute man: With Erie, Gansey had eight games in which he played the full 48 minutes. His season high in minutes was 52, which was in his first game with the BayHawks that ended in a 92-88 overtime win against Reno in the D-League Showcase. Gansey played at least 40 minutes 20 times for the BayHawks