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Yeah I think there’s definitely a higher ceiling with a year in college.
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Yeah I think there’s definitely a higher ceiling with a year in college.
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I'm not sure many 18 year old kids would want to move to Beijing for the equivalent of $100,000 (after expenses) if there was a viable option in the States. Brandon Jennings had a tough time overseas, but he made it to the NBA and Emmanuel Mudiay is successful. Haven't seen alot of kids following their path, which was mostly fueled by academic problems.
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The mom and the high school coach clearly used the “you can be a trailblazer” line to convince him to go the G League route.
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And to collect money from him.
I’d be ashamed to give my son bad advice just so I can get some money out of him.
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Brandon Jennings went #10, Emmanuel Mudiay went #7. You think they would have been drafted higher if they spent a year in college? SMH
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Brandon Jennings went #10, Emmanuel Mudiay went #7. You think they would have been drafted higher if they spent a year in college? SMH
Maybe. Of course I was talking about G league vs College, not overseas vs college.
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1st, you said elsewhere, not G league.
2nd, you think there is a higher upside playing against professionals overseas than in the states.
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You think Dion Waiters would have gone #4 without college?Brandon Jennings went #10, Emmanuel Mudiay went #7. You think they would have been drafted higher if they spent a year in college? SMH
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Ugh. In the history if the program how many kids have we thought, "boy, glad he graduated and took his 15ppg, 8rpg and 35% 3pct with him. He was killing chemistry."
lol.
This is not addition by subtraction by any stretch.
Having said that, he is not a Syracuse player. I will not root for him or against him.
lol.
This is not addition by subtraction by any stretch.
Having said that, he is not a Syracuse player. I will not root for him or against him.
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I didn’t say elsewhere. I said
I was implying college vs g league. Sorry I didn’t make that clear to you. I am now. Higher ceiling of where you can be drafted with a year in college vs a year in the G League. I think he’ll be a first round pick regardless though, and I don’t fault him for the decision. I hope it works out for him and I hope others who don’t want to go to college follow suit.
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I’m ok with all of this except where he doesn’t owe the coaching staff something. If you commit, build a relationship built on trust - and then bail late in the process - the staff has every right to be pissed.
When you break a commitment, there is a penalty. That’s a principal that does not change - no matter how much money you make and how much you want to treat it like a “business”.
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Mortgaging your future for short term cash is almost always the worse choice.
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lol
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It's good to take the high road but the low road is fun once in a while. Hopefully I will never need to root for him and hopefully the rules get changed before there are others who make the same decision
This kid didn't take the high road. I will be actively rooting against him.
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No one's following “suit" because it would be stupid to do so. College remains the best path to the NBA for those who can qualify, as you concede. Some go overseas (and can make a good salary), but almost no one (but DB) willingly chooses to play with a bunch of ball hogger guards in relative obscurity scrapping for minutes against 25 year-olds that have played in college or Europe already.
That is why there are very few examples of G-L players getting drafted in the lottery. Jennings and Mudiay are rare exceptions. VIrtually everyone else has failed, and the worst NBA team (Utah) with G-L rights has never extended an NBA contract to a "first round" G-L pick. The issue is not whether lottery picks make a lot of money (they do), but what is the best way to maximize your draft selection. In almost every case, that means going to college and playing with younger players guided by established (talented) coaches in a team concept, on TV virtually every night, showing NBA scouts what you can do in the "bright lights" of the NCAA's in front of millions of people. All that makes a huge difference, as we saw with Dion Waiters. There is little question that he benefited from the exposure he got at SU. Going number 4 netted him over $3.1M. Had he rolled the dice and gone G-L, there's a very good chance he would NOT have made the lottery. Even if he lucked out like Jennings and got selected at #10, that would have cost him $1.3M for at least 2 years (with a third year team option). We don't know how DB will do. But if he winds up going late in the lottery, or worse late in the first round (assuming he doesn't get hurt), it could cost him millions. By then the chump-change agent loan he got for $100k or whatever will have been spent and he will realize the scale of his mistake. That's why very few, if any, top-level HS players that can qualify academically are going that route. It should have been a big clue that every other kid in the McDonald's game decided to play in college.
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The media exposure alone if he is playing well would be worth being in college. He will get little of that while in the G league and will have little in the way of memorable moments to broadcast if does.
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Media exposure.
That’s cute.
That’s cute.
Two good points made by commentator at today's Jordan game about Bazley.
1. He is not physically mature. Very thin. Lacks strength. Going to have a difficult time playing against older more physical men.
2. In college he would get a lot of minutes. It's uncertain he will play substantial minutes for his G league team. Those minutes have to be earned, he is not just going to be given minutes.
His feeling was college is a more proven way to develop for these guys and play against more equal competition.
1. He is not physically mature. Very thin. Lacks strength. Going to have a difficult time playing against older more physical men.
2. In college he would get a lot of minutes. It's uncertain he will play substantial minutes for his G league team. Those minutes have to be earned, he is not just going to be given minutes.
His feeling was college is a more proven way to develop for these guys and play against more equal competition.
See above comment. That is what they said.
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Holy smokes Emmett Williams.
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