Aldridge, Thomas, And Roy Cancel Workout

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Aldridge, Thomas And Roy Cancel Bobcats Workout
22nd June, 2006 - 9:28 am
Charlotte Observer - The Charlotte Bobcats were dismayed to learn that three of the prospects that they were considering with their third pick in the draft are cancelling their workouts with the team this week.

LaMarcus Aldridge, Tyrus Thomas and Brandon Roy have all cancelled their workouts with the team.

"Bottom line, we're just not happy with the way things went down," said GM Bernie Bickerstaff of the cancellations. [READ]</div>
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I think that if you enter a draft, NO ONE, should be able to not show up for a workout. Why doesnt David Stern do something usefull, not **** up the league with all the dress code crap hes been doing.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting BlueBayou87:</div><div class="quote_post">I think that if you enter a draft, NO ONE, should be able to not show up for a workout. Why doesnt David Stern do something usefull, not **** up the league with all the dress code crap hes been doing.</div>
I don't think he can... It's all up to the players and their agents. If they have a promise or something, they think why risk getting hurt. But, the promise isn't always a promise, so why not go anyways.

 

He is the commisioner, so why doesnt he make it manditory, if you wanna be drafted, then you must workout for whoever is interested in drafting you, bottom line. Anything can happen on draft day.

 

I think the best solution is having a draft camp that is manditory for prospects to attend (like the one in orlando -except with all the top tallent) and barring the individual workouts for teams all together. I think someone will always be able to find a loophole under the current system of working out for individual teams.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting BlueBayou87:</div><div class="quote_post">He is the commisioner, so why doesnt he make it manditory, if you wanna be drafted, then you must workout for whoever is interested in drafting you, bottom line. Anything can happen on draft day.</div>
It?s the players future not David Sterns so why should Stern make them go workout for a team they don?t want to work out for?

 

Well i think it may have something to do with all the young inside players that the cats already have. Or maybe they just dont want to play for them seeing that they both think that they will be taken either 1 or 2. But I think odds are 1 will end up in Charlotte.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Best Kept Secret:</div><div class="quote_post">It?s the players future not David Sterns so why should Stern make them go workout for a team they don?t want to work out for?</div>
Because unless teams are on an even field when it comes to evaluating tallent it allows people to play favorites and it screws up the point of having the draft in the first place. If players coming into the NBA demand only to play for certain teams it's bad for the stability of franchises who aren't on the favorable end of the spectrum. If the bad teams can't evaluate the tallent as well as the good teams (because they don't have access to workouts) they'll make worse decisions, which is unfair.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting a13x:</div><div class="quote_post">Because unless teams are on an even field when it comes to evaluating tallent it allows people to play favorites and it screws up the point of having the draft in the first place. If players coming into the NBA demand only to play for certain teams it's bad for the stability of franchises who aren't on the favorable end of the spectrum. If the bad teams can't evaluate the tallent as well as the good teams (because they don't have access to workouts) they'll make worse decisions, which is unfair.</div>
The thing is these players cancelled there workouts most likely due to the fact they have promises from people with higher picks (ie. worse than the Bobcats). You also act as if these guys are new players no one has ever seen before they all have at least one year of college experience and that is more than enough video for teams to evaluate players. At the end of the day players and there agents for the most part have to make travel plans to attend these workouts (unless your a consensus top three pick) so unless the NBA is paying to fly these players out to these workout facilities they should have no say on whether a player has to work out for every team interested or not.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Best Kept Secret:</div><div class="quote_post">The thing is these players cancelled there workouts most likely due to the fact they have promises from people with higher picks (ie. worse than the Bobcats). You also act as if these guys are new players no one has ever seen before they all have at least one year of college experience and that is more than enough video for teams to evaluate players. At the end of the day players and there agents for the most part have to make travel plans to attend these workouts (unless your a consensus top three pick) so unless the NBA is paying to fly these players out to these workout facilities they should have no say on whether a player has to work out for every team interested or not.</div>


I agree with you for the most part, I should have elaborated more on my post.
I don't really see anything wrong with this situation, given that both players have promises from teams with higher picks. My problem really isn't with this case, as much as the workout system as a whole and players dictating where they want to play. I think it's stupid that the players are put through the same type of test on several occasions with different teams. Also, it sucks that some teams will be deprived of the information from a workout.

Most teams want to see a player work out against other players in their draft class so they can more readily compare tallent levels directly, given that competition on a nightly basis in college can't always provide a head-to-head comparison with someone of similar tallent. If workouts didn't provide any extra info over tape, no one would bother conducting them.

I don't think forcing players to attend a teams workout would be the right answer. The whole travel thing could be avoided and multiple workouts by having one NBA wide workout instead of the team specific workouts. I think the NFL already does something like this (not sure) ...

 

I don't understand why the NBA doesn't just have workouts at the player's schools like the NFL has. For international guys just have a big international workout. It's a much better system. Just have "pro-days" for schools then if you're interested in the player bring him in for an interview. That would actually be easier on the players and the team.