True... But if the scouts want a teenager to leave school, it wouldn't be very hard when you are talking millions. Especially if that teenager grew up in from a poor family.
Jermaine O'Neal But your points are valid. At the end of the day it is a tough call to stay or go. Some players stock will fall while staying in college and others go up. It changes player by player and predicting a players future is mostly a guess.
if you call playing 40-50 games a year and not making the playoffs, or losing in a sweep as soon as you get there "dominating", then yeah, he is included. lol
he is dominating and "he" didnt get swept. shaq was swept when he was dominating in the early 90's. he averaged less than 5 a game for years and then became a 20+ scorer. he fits your original criteria, though i was doing it to be a smartass...as i agreed with your point.
I wish more people thought like you, b/c I def hear a lot of "T-Mac has lost in the 1st round X amount of times." and not "The Rockets and Magic have lost in the 1st round X amount of times." I've always found it hard to fault a guy who averages 35, 6 and 6 in a series, but people do...
how would they know? they took the easy road. just like AR will take if he leaves early. may not be the best road. he WILL get paid regardless. odds are he'll just get paid more if he stays in school. plus he'll have more fun. become more grounded. get a degree (stability). and have a better life because of it.
Uhhh, Krzyzewski has a 98% graduation rate, so I have to say that UNC might be a better school to use as a punchline here. Obviously I would hate to see him geaux, but I cannot deny how hard it would be to turn down guaranteed millions like that. Lets just hope he wants to further refine his game, perhaps bulk up a little more in college before he makes this next step.
I assume thats a joke, but I respect Duke basketball so much because of kids like Reddick, Duhon, Ewing, Sheldon Williams, Paulus and Nelson; really talented college basketball players who stay and play all four years. Coach K basically takes a bunch of white kids who can shoot but can't play above the rim so they don't translate to the NBA and so they stay four years and thus create a very stable program year after year. He throws in a couple guys like Deng, McRoberts, Jay Williams, and Dunleavy who skip out early. But they are the only school in the top 50 where you will see four or more white guys on the floor at a time. I just think its kinda cool. (I was also at the UM game this year when we beat 'em for the first time ever, it was so awesome!!!)
funny. this is from two years ago. Basketball Grad Rates: North Carolina82% Syracuse75% Santa Clara75% Michigan St.73% Gonzaga55% Duke50% Connecticut...50% "When are the media going to realize that the Duke basketball program’s academic story is a fraud? Duke’s grad rate is just 50%, which is below the overall Division I basketball GSR of 55%. With the change in methodology, 50% is no longer a particularly respectable figure. If not for the change in methodology, Duke would have reported a 40% grad rate. The change in methodology has had the biggest impact on the teams with the worst grad rates in basketball. For the most part, programs that had rates of 20% or worse under the old methodology have managed to improve to 30% or better." *redick *shelden please. k recruits as many mcds as the rest. he doesnt take homeless kids and make them st. judes doctors.
