Wizards sign Donell Taylor and Mike Hall to qualifying offers
Aug 22nd, 2007 by Inside Hoops
Washington Wizards President Ernie Grunfeld announced today that the team has signed guard Donell Taylor and forward Mike Hall to a pair of qualifying offers. Per team policy, terms of the deals were not disclosed.
Taylor (6-5, 193) has appeared in 98 career games (two starts) over two seasons with the Wizards. He has averaged 2.7 points, 1.1 rebounds and 0.9 assists in 8.5 minutes per game as a professional. Taylor originally signed with the Wizards on August 16, 2005 as an undrafted free agent out of UAB.
Hall (6-8, 230), who originally signed with the Wizards on February 28, 2007, appeared in two games with Washington last season. Hall averaged 9.0 points and 3.8 rebounds in 19.6 minutes per game for Washington during five games in the 2007 NBA Summer League. He played collegiately at George Washington University.
Donell Taylor has great abilities but hasn’t been given a fair chance to play his games since arriving in the NBA. Throughout his collegiate career he was given the green light and he played up to it. This NBA program in Washington should take off the training wheels and red light, and let this young man do his thing. He has skills but the coach needs to take off the pressure and give him seven or eight games to familiarize himself with live game action. Noone plays that well only playing a few minutes, off the bench for short spurts, and being held from shooting . Ask Arenas, he’s been there!