wakesquirrel
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Lot of guys who can come back are showing awake love on Twitter today.
Lot of guys who can come back are showing awake love on Twitter today.
not going to dismiss these feelings that i think have some validity, and clearly others feel the same way. that said not sure it would stand up to the evidence. and best case, getting tim duncan to turn down being the #1 pick two straight years is probably the greatest coup in the history of college sports. granted that was a long time ago, so maybe we are just paying for that.
Yeah I'm not sure why people still use the "he's not ready" argument to say a guy should stay in school. If we have seen anything over the last 25-30 years is that the NBA could care less if you are "ready". They only care about whether or not you have the potential to be an NBA player and the younger the guy is, the better.
not going to dismiss these feelings that i think have some validity, and clearly others feel the same way. that said not sure it would stand up to the evidence. and best case, getting tim duncan to turn down being the #1 pick two straight years is probably the greatest coup in the history of college sports. granted that was a long time ago, so maybe we are just paying for that.
Would rather this thread not turn into a rehashed discussion of whether or not a player (in this case, Jake) should go to the NBA. It’s been covered ad nauseam in numerous other threads over the years.
Go back and read about Collins, Moore, etc and the same points are being made by many of the same people.
I’m more interested in wild speculation about next year’s roster.
Agree that we have had this same discussion several times on these boards, but whether Jake stays or goes is the most important factor impacting next year's roster. Hard to just ignore it when speculating on the makeup of the 2023 roster.
Would rather this thread not turn into a rehashed discussion of whether or not a player (in this case, Jake) should go to the NBA. It’s been covered ad nauseam in numerous other threads over the years.
Go back and read about Collins, Moore, etc and the same points are being made by many of the same people.
I’m more interested in wild speculation about next year’s roster.
The thing was, nobody got Timmy to stay - times were different then and he was a different dude.
nitpicking here, not a slight. times were not different then. that was the era that set it off. the early entrants were escalating. high schoolers like garnett and kobe were already skipping college. wallace, stackhouse, smith (just to name a few) all departed after their sophomore campaigns.
it's more duncan was a one of a kind. stayed four years and is still considered one of the best NBA players ever and HOF
Around the time of when he was in school, the NBA went from no rookie salary scale for the draft slots to a rookie cap on salary. If he turned pro a year or two earlier, his rookie contract would have been higher than the slotted salaries.
So he left a lot of money on the table by not coming out early.
Agree that we have had this same discussion several times on these boards, but whether Jake stays or goes is the most important factor impacting next year's roster. Hard to just ignore it when speculating on the makeup of the 2023 roster.