<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Quincy Douby will announce today that he is declaring for this year's NBA Draft, his former high school coach, Jack Ringel, told Gannett New Jersey on Sunday night. Ringel said Rutgers University's junior guard will issue a statement that will read: "Quincy Douby today (Monday) submitted his letter to declare himself eligible for the 2006 NBA Draft. He will not sign with an agent. He is remaining in his classes to keep his options available. He currently is being advised and if that advice indicates that he is a first-round pick, then he will be able to fulfill a dream to remain in the draft." Douby's decision, however, doesn't mean he has played his last game for the Scarlet Knights. By not signing with an agent, Douby will maintain his college eligibility and has the option to return to Rutgers next season. Douby, who has politely declined interview requests while allowing Ringel to speak about his decision, has until June 18 to withdraw his name from the June 28 draft before losing his eligibility. Last Thursday, Douby met with recently hired Rutgers coach Fred Hill to discuss his options. The next day, Ringel said Hill planned to submit Douby's name to the NBA's Undergraduate Advisory Committee to gauge his draft prospects. The advisory committee is headed by Stu Jackson, the NBA's Senior Vice President of Basketball Operations, and is composed of several general managers from the league. "Quincy thought about what Freddie said and he respects coach Hill's advice very much," Ringel said. "He spent the weekend thinking about the pros and cons of it. He decided to basically test the waters and see what the response will be." Ringel said Douby hopes to receive an invitation to the NBA predraft camp June 6 in Orlando, Fla. Douby also could work out for individual NBA teams, but he would need to pay his own travel expenses in order to keep his NCAA status. "Quincy knows there are no guarantees and it's very early in the whole draft process," Ringel said. "If it indicates that he's a first-round pick, he's going to remain in the draft." Douby led the Big East in scoring in 2005-06, averaging 25.4 points overall in a 19-14 season. An All-Big East selection, Douby became Rutgers' single-season scoring leader with 839 points while leading the Scarlet Knights in scoring in all but one game. Where Douby could get picked is anyone's guess. He has been projected as high as the middle of the first round and as low as late in the second round by recent Internet mock drafts. Draftexpress.com wrote: "NBA scouts are all over the board on (Douby), with some saying they consider him a second-round pick and others saying they would not be surprised if he ended up in the lottery." Douby is projected as the No. 18 pick according to the Web site's 2006 mock draft. NBAdraft.net, however, projects Douby as a second-round pick, No. 42 overall, while citing the 6-foot-3, 175-pound guard's lack of "an NBA body" as his biggest weakness. First-round picks are offered guaranteed contracts and that, Ringel said, would be difficult for Douby to turn down. "I hope everybody in the Rutgers community stands behind Quincy," Ringel said, "and understand that this has been a difficult decision."</div> Source
Quincy Douby has really nice 3 point shooting skills. He could help a team if it were the right situation for him.
He really impressed me this year lighting up just about every team he played against. Early-mid 2nd round I think but he will be one of those guys that got overlooked in the draft and turn out to be a great contributer to whoever picks him.
I had the oppurtunity to watch Quincy several times this year (once on ESPN and once in person) and I was very impressed by him. He probably won't be a top 20 player since his size puts him in that dreaded 'tweener' category. He is a great shooter though and everytime he shoots you just know it's going in. I think he will end up being selected somewhere between picks #25-40, so either late first or early second.
I think Douby should stay for his senior year and hone his skills and maybe even get into the NCAA tournament and make a splash, get his stock up for the NBA Draft. I remeber watching him in the NIT for a few years, and thinking that the next year was the year that Rutgers would get into the big dance led by Douby.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Between now and June 18, Quincy Douby will find plenty of people willing to say that he's ready for the NBA. But the first person allowed to evaluate Rutgers University's junior guard -- and, really, the only person whose opinion counts -- will be Stu Jackson, the NBA's Senior Vice President of Operations. Jackson heads the NBA's Undergraduate Advisory Committee, a group of eight general managers that gauges a player's ability and projects how the draft will unfold. With Douby submitting paperwork to the NBA's office Monday to officially become draft eligible, Jackson's committee will review Douby's prospects in the coming days. "It's a very important life decision and you certainly don't want a kid to remain in the draft when he probably shouldn't," said Jackson, who declined to address Douby or any individual player his committee will evaluate. "We try to give them some unbiased information that they can use to make an educated decision and not a decision based on what they hear on the street from some perspective advisor or an agent who doesn't have access to general managers and player personnel directors the way that we do." While he said the committee is deliberate in each evaluation, Jackson admitted he's conservative in giving a player the go-ahead to enter the draft. "First and foremost," he said, "we'd love for kids to continue their education. But we understand that this is a difficult decision, so we look at each player thoroughly in this process. That said, you can say we err on the side of caution." Often times, Jackson said, the evaluation can be "a dose of reality." "The process relies heavily on general managers and player personnel directors whose daily responsibility is to handicap the draft and evaluate players," Jackson said. "As we get closer to the draft, they have a pretty accurate idea as to team needs. And certainly they're pretty accurate in most cases." If Douby receives a favorable evaluation, he will remain in the draft, according to his closest basketball advisor, Jack Ringel. By not signing with an agent, Douby maintains his college eligibility and has the option to return to Rutgers if he removes his name 10 days before the June 28 draft. But regardless of the committee's opinion, Ringel said Douby plans to attend the NBA predraft camp in Orlando in June. "That's where Quincy can make a favorable impression," said Ringel, Douby's former coach at Brooklyn's Grady High School. "The thing about Quincy is he does great in his individual workouts, so whatever (the advisory committee) says, you have to consider that it's very early in the draft process." An NBA scout and a player personnel director, both on the condition of anonymity, spoke to Gannett New Jersey on Monday about Douby's draft prospects. The personnel director said Douby's upside is "intriguing" and has little doubt that he can score in the NBA. "If a guy scores 25 points per game in that league (the Big East), and he has been in college for three years, he can probably play in the NBA," he said. The scout, who has watched Douby play "three or four times," has concern about whether Douby can hold up to the NBA's wear and tear. Generously listed at 6-foot-3 and 175 pounds, Douby "would need to add at least 10 pounds to be a factor" in the NBA, the scout said. Douby has been projected as high as the middle of the first round and as low as the second round by the most reputable Internet mock drafts.</div> Source
Hmm. At 6'3 and a rather wiry 175 pounds, he'll have to play PG or be really crafty at the two guard in the NBA.
Douby lit up Syracuse for 41 this year and thats what started his draft buzz. He is a definite 2nd round prospect that would need to seriously out perform some of the bigger name guard prospects in workouts to sneak into the 1st round.
