jaybone
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if only he had spoken to jaybone ! 1
Pretty Douchey response. I cannot remember if you are regularly a douchey poster or this is outside your norm.
I just stated above that in hindsight not a horrible decision for Doral Moore to go pro. In the pre-draft interview after a workout in Charlotte, Moore was interviewed by local TV and he was legitimately hopeful of being drafted in the late 1st round. It was just not going to happen. Moore made $35,000 this year in the Development league. $7,000 per month. Not horrific, but he could have earned 10X that overseas. He's never going to get that money back.
His agent reps one NBA player, Paul Millsap who signed his max contract several years ago. He reps nobody else in the NBA. Doral DID choose, in hindsight, a good NBA team. They had no legit backup center when he signed and they only signed Joakim Noah 20+ games into the season. And Doral played quite well. Still, despite trading Gasol, despite losing Noah, despite losing Valenciunius with 10 days left in the season, Moore did not get called up.
He'll always be 1 year behind Crawford now in getting his pro coin, and he did so at the expense of a college degree.
Now, I WAS against him going pro a year ago for the following reason - he had one quality season on his resume EVER going back to his birth. He was not even dominant in high school because he played on a team with multiple future college players. Not only that, he didn't have a season on his resume where he played more than half a game - 20 minutes in college, I think 16 minutes in high school. I thought he could possibly move into the 2nd round if he put together two double-double seasons in a row at Wake playing 25+ minutes, but essentially he plays a role that is at the moment out-dated in the NBA.
So, to be clear - I'm not questioning Moore's decision to leave, I'm questioning his choices since. He's fixated on the NBA. All kids with NBA potential are, but Crawford made the much wiser decision to go get paid for real. I cannot find what Crawford made in Israel, but he was a top 10 scorer in their top league so I am guessing at minimum several hundred thousand dollars. Since he played pretty well, he has the chance to get more money in Spain, Italy, Greece, France ,etc... If Moore gets better advice this summer, he will follow Crawford overseas to make good money.
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