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  • 2kool4skool
    Great idea for the NBA to make them stay an extra year, because it's clearly been proven that one and dones need an extra year of preparation before contributing to an NBA team.......

    brb Kyrie Irving, John Wall, Demarcus Cousins, Derrick Rose, Kevin Love, Kevin Durant
  • wes_mantooth
    2kool4skool;1136079 wrote:Great idea for the NBA to make them stay an extra year, because it's clearly been proven that one and dones need an extra year of preparation before contributing to an NBA team.......

    brb Kyrie Irving, John Wall, Demarcus Cousins, Derrick Rose, Kevin Love, Kevin Durant
    there are examples for both sides of the argument.
  • Hb31187
    The 1 and dones that dont flourish in the NBA, wouldnt of done any better had they stayed another year. They simply were not cut out for the NBA
  • 2kool4skool
    wes_mantooth;1136086 wrote:there are examples for both sides of the argument.
    Then players that need to stay an extra year can. Most of the best players in the NBA are one and dones or straight out of HS. The teams want to draft them, the players want to enter the draft, only reason to not allow it is so the NBA can get an extra year of completely free marketing of their prospects(while the prospects have another year where they can't be paid their market value.)

    2011 All NBA team
    Kevin Durant
    Lebron James
    Dwight Howard
    Kobe Bryant
    Derrick Rose

    All one and dones or straight to the NBA. The NBA can GTFO of here with their nonsense.
  • robj55
    Hb31187;1136087 wrote:The 1 and dones that dont flourish in the NBA, wouldnt of done any better had they stayed another year. They simply were not cut out for the NBA
    Normally a players biggest growth is between 18 and 22, so I disagree with that.
  • Hb31187
    robj55;1136092 wrote:Normally a players biggest growth is between 18 and 22, so I disagree with that.
    But playing another year against players not near the caliber of NBA players isnt gonna do shit for you. If anything, playing with NBA players every day, and practicing in top of the line facilities with much better coaches and training staffs would help you much much more IMO
  • robj55
    Hb31187;1136097 wrote:But playing another year against players not near the caliber of NBA players isnt gonna do **** for you. If anything, playing with NBA players every day, and practicing in top of the line facilities with much better coaches and training staffs would help you much much more IMO
    It can help you get game experience, which is more valuable than anything else. Now they have a minor league system in the D League to get guys experience which is valuable. I think you learn more about the game during these years, and the best place to showcase what you've learned is on the court, not on the bench. I know my greatest years of getting better were during those years as opposed to any other years at least.
  • wes_mantooth
    Hb31187;1136097 wrote:But playing another year against players not near the caliber of NBA players isnt gonna do shit for you. If anything, playing with NBA players every day, and practicing in top of the line facilities with much better coaches and training staffs would help you much much more IMO
    True, but there are those players like Robinson from Kansas that just needed a little more seasoning. I just think it is different for everyone...some would get buried by the huge jump and some that can adjust quicker.
  • robj55
    wes_mantooth;1136111 wrote:True, but there are those players like Robinson from Kansas that just needed a little more seasoning. I just think it is different for everyone...some would get buried by the huge jump and some that can adjust quicker.
    Well said, a player's confidence is key during those years. If a player loses that by not getting time, regardless of the 1 on 1 attention he gets from the staff during practice, he may never recover.
  • 2kool4skool
    You guys are pointing out situations that are completely unaffected by the rule. If a player needs to stay an extra year, then they are allowed to. Being able to leave early doesn't mean it's a requirement.

    What it will do, is force players who are literally among the best in the world, to miss out on a full year of being paid their market value, while they risk injury, in exchange for peanuts.

    The rule doesn't exist to "protect" the players from themselves. The NBA doesn't give a shit about that. They want an extra year of completely, totally, free marketing for their prospects.
  • hoops23
    There are players who, regardless of how long they stay in college, will get buried in the NBA.

    Look at Kyrie. He could have came right out of high school. Hell, he only played 11 games in college... KD, Rose, Blake, all guys who could have came straight out and put up #'s.

    Then you have guys like Jared Sullinger. No matter how long he stays in college, he's not going to improve his game. What's he going to do in college that would completely change the way he comes into the NBA?
  • Skyhook79
    Kobe 10-16 and another game winning shot in case hoops23 is interested.
  • Midstate01
    hoops23;1136210 wrote:There are players who, regardless of how long they stay in college, will get buried in the NBA.

    Look at Kyrie. He could have came right out of high school. Hell, he only played 11 games in college... KD, Rose, Blake, all guys who could have came straight out and put up #'s.

    Then you have guys like Jared Sullinger. No matter how long he stays in college, he's not going to improve his game. What's he going to do in college that would completely change the way he comes into the NBA?

    True but you're only giving success stories. Plenty of kids never made it too. Longer you keep them in school, the better the chances are that they get a degree too.
  • Skyhook79
    Midstate01;1136383 wrote:True but you're only giving success stories. Plenty of kids never made it too. Longer you keep them in school, the better the chances are that they get a degree too.
    I would guess for every success story there are 2-3 stories of players who never made it. Now whether staying in or going to College would have made a difference in their development to the NBA can be debated till the cows come home because there is no way to prove it either way.
  • Azubuike24
    Big Cuz with 41 pts, 12 reb. Kings lose...haha.
  • sportswizuhrd
    It may be impossible to research but I would like to see how the players fared who SHOULD have left after their freshman year and take out the players who had no business leaving early(Josh Selby comes to mind). How much of this wanting to change the eligibilty rules can be blamed on GM's drafting on potential and it not working out?
  • sportswizuhrd
    I guess it wasn't impossible. I thought for sure there were more kids who left after one year. Nearly all of these who were drafted are still in the NBA.

    2006 8 SR's drafted in first round
    4 Tyrus Thomas LSU
    17 Shawne Williams Memphis
    UD Dinc Indiana
    UD Holloway Post Grad HS

    2007 6 SR's
    1 Oden Ohio St.
    2 Durant Texas
    4 Conley Ohio St.
    8 Wright UNC
    10 Hawes Washington
    12 Young Georgia Tech
    19 Crittenton Georgia Tech
    21 Cook Ohio St.
    UD Johnson SC JC

    2008 5 SRS
    1 Rose Memphis
    2 Beasley Kansas State
    3 Mayo USC
    5 Love UCLA
    7 Gordon Indiana
    11 Bayless Arizona
    14 Randolph LSU
    19 Hickson NC State
    23 Koufos Ohio State
    28 Greene Syracuse
    35 Jordan Texas A&M
    47 Walker Kansas State
    UD Bailey Post Grad HS
    UD Davon Jefferson USC
    UD John Riek Post Grad HS

    2009 6 SR's
    4 Evans Memphis
    9 DeRozan USC
    17 Holiday UCLA
    24 Mullens Ohio State
    UD Nate Miles So.Idaho

    2010 4 SR's
    1 Wall Kentucky
    3 Favors Georgia Tech
    5 Cousins Kentucky
    12 Henry Kansas
    18 Bledsoe Kentucky
    19 Bradley Texas
    29 Orton Kentucky
    33 Whiteside Marshall
    40 Stephenson Cincinnati
    47 Gallon Oklahoma
    UD Tommy Mason-Griffin Oklahoma

    2011 7 SR's
    1 Irving Duke
    3 Kanter Kentucky
    4 Thompson Texas
    8 Knight Kentucky
    19 Harris Tennessee
    29 Joseph Texas
    49 Selby Kansas
    UD Jereme Richmond Illinois

    Looks like the only drafted players not on rosters now are Tiny Gallon, Javaris Crittenton and Greg Oden.
  • 2kool4skool
    sportswizuhrd;1136635 wrote:and Greg Oden.
    And if Oden had been forced to stay a 2nd year, he may be doing car dealership commercials in Columbus to support himself right now.
  • sleeper
    2kool4skool;1136090 wrote:Then players that need to stay an extra year can. Most of the best players in the NBA are one and dones or straight out of HS. The teams want to draft them, the players want to enter the draft, only reason to not allow it is so the NBA can get an extra year of completely free marketing of their prospects(while the prospects have another year where they can't be paid their market value.)

    2011 All NBA team
    Kevin Durant
    Lebron James
    Dwight Howard
    Kobe Bryant
    Derrick Rose

    All one and dones or straight to the NBA. The NBA can GTFO of here with their nonsense.
    I'll take Kevin Love over Dwight Howard any day of the week.
  • 2kool4skool
    sleeper;1136797 wrote:I'll take Kevin Love over Dwight Howard any day of the week.
    Okay, that was simply a list of the 2011 all NBA first team. Though Love is another example of a one and done.
  • sleeper
    2kool4skool;1136803 wrote:Okay, that was simply a list of the 2011 all NBA first team. Though Love is another example of a one and done.
    If Kevin Love was a black guy, he'd be 1st team all NBA. All I'm saying.
  • wildcats20
    sleeper;1136805 wrote:If Kevin Love was a black guy, he'd be 1st team all NBA. All I'm saying.
    Put him on a more publicized team and he would be right there.

    Unfortunately for him he is stuck in Minny and stuck behind Bron and Durant at the forward spot.
  • sleeper
    wildcats20;1136815 wrote:Put him on a more publicized team and he would be right there.

    Unfortunately for him he is stuck in Minny and stuck behind Bron and Durant at the forward spot.
    Love is a PF/C. He's also the best Center in the league.
  • Commander of Awesome
    This Thunder/CHeat game is one of the best games I've watched this season so far. Only the 2/3 OT games are better so far. Highly entertaining. I just hope FAILami continues to fall in love with the jump shot. Anyone else watching on ESPN2?
  • Pick6
    ^^ Im watching. Awesome, physical game so far.


    Fuck the Heat.