I agree he shouldn’t be… but the draft has become very different over the last decade. He gone
Agreed. I'm ole school bb, so overall talent matters. Today if you have the correct number of tats...you're in!
At this point i believe it is just posters on this board popping off for various reasons why Davidson is a one and done.
I agree with this, but the NBA, unlike when I was a kid, drafts so much off future potential than a finished game. JD, with all his freshman rawness, has already shown more than Primo did all of last season, and he went 12th overall(though Primo looked like the much better potential outside shooter).
Don’t have to be that great to make a NBA roster these days. League is watered down from the hey day.
I agree, I have seen 3 mock drafts and in those drafts JD goes 11, 13 and 16 and those numbers have come off of watching him being very out of control and reckless with the basketball. I have to believe with more game experience he climbs the board because the cat can definitely play. As many in this thread have mentioned the NBA draft has become an overseas and off of potential draft and I really can’t speak of the talent in the league now because if there was an NBA game in my backyard I would not pull the blinds to watch.
I agree. I, also, have not watched an NBA game in 20 years. I would rather mow my lawn, and I have a service that already does it every week.
Yep, and the NBA took players from us that we never got to see even half way developed - Gerald Wallace, Josh Primo, and soon JD. It would have been nice to have them on the court for at least one year when they were closer to their ceiling than their utter floor.
Agreed! "...wouldn't pull the blinds to watch!" An instant classic. I was an avid NBA fan back in the Magic/Bird/Dr. J/ days, so I feel ya.
While I do not agree with this selection formula, I get it. The difference between Primo and JD, is being a scoring threat. He'll most likely get drafted if he chooses to leave early, so he needs to utilize his remaining time at the Capstone to improve his game overall.
The talent in the NBA has improved tremendously over the years. Do they always play hard in the regular season? no! If you can sniff an NBA roster your definitely one of the best ballers in the world. With the globalization of the sport of basketball it's extremely hard to make the league and hang around. Just take a look at the G-league so many talented guys that can't come close to making an NBA roster. The NBA by far has the best athletes in the world.
I loved it back then as well. I hated the Lakers, but I loved Jamaal Wilkes and Michael Cooper, but my favorite team was the Hawks with John Drew, Eddie “The Auburn Convict” Johnson, Danny Roundfield, The Rhodes Scholar Tom McMillan and Tree Rollins. I also liked the “Bad Boys” Detroit Pistons team with Laimbeer, Mahon, Rodman, Salley and Isaiah. I hated when the SuperSonics were shipped out to OKC and man did the Lakers-Celtics have some battles or wha!
He’s got a lot of Russell Westbrook in him. Russell just an absolute freak athlete, averaged 3.4 ppg as a freshman and 12.7 as a sophomore before getting drafted. Never was a starter for ucla behind Darren Collison. Gets to nba and almost immediately become a star and is now a triple double machine. I think nba scouts look at that type of athlete and know if he’s a hard worker and stays healthy and out of trouble he will become a greats basketball player
Should have been pretty obvious that auto correct got a hold of that, but it’s great to know that you have my back.
Guess we’ll hear from Primo in a few years. He’s barely playing more than me. I get it they draft on potential and ceiling and all that but he was an average college guard coming off the bench. Sexton had it. Shariffe Cooper for the barn had it. Thise kids could take over games. JD is a hell of an athlete great effort and will be a stud. Just sucks the NBA wants to grab guys like this when they are still one or two years away. That’s why I have very little interest in the game after college. I want JD shooting the open threes. He drives 95% of the time. Turnovers have gotten better. He’s definitely a reason why people go. You can hear the buzz when he comes in. Hoping to see him expand his game. This team will go one of two ways from here. Winning is contagious and so is losing. I expect much better effort in SEC play but it shouldn’t have to come after an embarrassing loss to Davidson, a game Davidson controlled most of the way.
I don’t blame the kids for taking the huge $, but $ has hurt the NFL, has all but ruined parity in baseball, and has really destroyed what college BB once was in the 80’s and early 90’s. The NBA is awful, imop, for the past two decades. I am a capitalist, but this is an instance where the $ has massively hurt it for all but a very few.
it is getting to the point where it will be a big risk to take jd at this point.
Actually think I agree. I won’t be mad if JD comes back, but I’ve come to realize most guys don’t just drastically improve over a summer like fans think they will from one year to the next. Improvement for JD will happen piece by piece over a 5-7 year span. He may have a little better handles and maybe a little more understanding of the game if he came back but he’s not going to suddenly be the best player in the sec. He has a long way to go in every skill
