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06-26-2024, 09:26 PM | #63 | |
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His entire draft stock is potential and a pretty good 10-12 game stretch from around January. He might get better by coming back or he might have a reduced role with the transfers that Self brought in (who can actually defend). Hell, he might even get further exposed (defensively especially). Plus, no NIL dollars to collect. |
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06-26-2024, 09:27 PM | #64 |
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06-26-2024, 09:29 PM | #65 | |
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06-26-2024, 09:40 PM | #66 |
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Anyone remember Marcus Fizer?
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06-27-2024, 09:25 AM | #67 |
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06-27-2024, 09:57 AM | #68 |
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06-27-2024, 10:13 AM | #69 |
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06-27-2024, 12:57 PM | #70 | |
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Because ultimately, if he's an NBA caliber prospect, ball don't lie. He can get to the G-League and prove it. He can work on the same stuff he would've had to work on at KU to get himself a lucrative deal. And those G-league deals are typically shorter, so if he DOES prove it, he'll have an opportunity to cash in on a similar timeline. Moreover, my memory serves, that 2nd round picks actually have a chance to get to big money SOONER than 1st round picks. The old Gilbert Arenas thing. Now maybe they've closed some of that stuff up. But my memory is that a 2nd round pick his RFA status a year sooner than a 1st rounder and RFA contracts are getting awfully rich in their own right. A guy can play his way up and still vault quickly into the high-earner ranks if he has the tools for it. If he's a ballplayer, he'll be able to show it. If not, another year at KU wasn't going to change that. |
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06-27-2024, 01:06 PM | #71 |
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06-27-2024, 01:07 PM | #72 |
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06-27-2024, 01:08 PM | #73 |
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What's with the guys from KU and their awful names Dick and Furphy?
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06-27-2024, 01:10 PM | #74 | |
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06-27-2024, 01:13 PM | #75 | |
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Those are the guys that are hurt by slides - the guys that just aren't very good. In which case it wasn't really a slide - it was NBA teams being smarter than Stephen A Smith or whoever else did a mock draft that day. And ultimately if he IS a scrub, going back to KU wasn't going to help him. Might have even hurt him going into a tougher draft next season WITHOUT as much promise as of the unknown. Right now you can say "Hey, maybe he becomes an NBA player someday" but if he goes back to KU next season and disappoints, you probably know he can't. And now you're looking at a post-draft contract in the G-League. |
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