Reports: USU’s Queta to work out with four NBA teams
Utah State center Neemias Queta is currently participating in the NBA Combine in Chicago. While there, the Portuguese big man has reportedly received offers from four NBA teams to go through workouts — the Brooklyn Nets, Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers and Milwaukee Bucks.
De acordo com Miguel Candeias, enviado especial da @abolapt ao NBA Combine, em Chicago, Neemias Queta (@nemi1599) recebeu convites para treinar com @BrooklynNets, @DetroitPistons, @Pacers e @Bucks. Para além dos treinos, o português vai reunir com outras sete equipas da #NBA.
— Ricardo Brito Reis (@rbritoreis) May 15, 2019
For those who don’t speak or read Portugese and don’t want to take a trip to Google Translate, here’s what the translation page spit out.
“According to Miguel Candeias, @abolapt’s special envoy to the NBA Combine in Chicago, Neemias Queta (@ nemi1599) received invitations to train with @BrooklynNets, @DetroitPistons, @Pacers and @Bucks. In addition to training, the Portuguese will meet with seven other teams from #NBA.”
The translation may be a bit clunky at the end, but initial the message is clear: Queta will get a chance to strut his stuff in front of four additional NBA teams following the NBA Combine.
Queta has already worked out with one team, the NBA franchise closest to his college home in Logan: the Utah Jazz. That workout took place on May 11, five days before the combine. After the workout, Walt Perrin, the VP of player personnel for the Utah Jazz, had somewhat of a mixed review for the big, pointing out some good things while making it clear the 2018-19 Mountain West Defensive Player of the year had a lot of work to do to improve.
“He looked pretty good,” Perrin told the media of Queta’s workout with the Jazz. “He’s still a young kid so he’s got some things he’s got to work on. I think the one thing that impressed me a little bit cause I hadn’t seen him play a lot is he’s got a bit of a shooting touch. He’s not strictly a back-to-the-basket player. So that will help him, hopefully at Utah State and in the future. He’s still got a young body so he’s gonna have to get a lot stronger. He got pushed around a little bit today. He reacted well defensively so it was a good workout.”