He may not be actively doing it anymore, but he was a very good basketball trainer. I've heard it from many people in my community.
Kind of an odd list with Poole Rivers Suggs Garland Dick it actually looks like good company. However Poole/Suggs/Dick/Rivers were all rookies at age 20 then improved their next season. I think thats what people are concerned more with Scoot here - we don't see any improvements. Garland was in his second year at age20 but shooting 39.5% on 3pt scoring 17ppg so is odd he was on that list.
Jalen Suggs is the new Chauncey Jalen Suggs is the new Chauncey "started shit but became great" Billups for us to desperately compare Scoot to
Putting Bowie #1 just shows they misunderstood the assignment. Bowie was a disappointment but he's only there because Jordan was picked after him. But draft busts are not busts because of who you COULD'VE picked, they're busts because of what THEY'RE like. (And Oden isn't a bust because injuries don't count.) And any list that doesn't have ANTHONY FUCKING BENNETT in it is a joke. I'm not hopeful for Scoot, I have to say, EXCEPT: G-League Ignite players have shown that playing for that team literally sets you back two years.
No doubt, but that doesn't fit in this case. Clingan wasn't considered polished or NBA ready...by hardly anyone. He's an example of a young guy developing just fine in this system while having vets ahead of him in the rotation. So, the system (coaching and/or front office) itself isn't the problem, unless something in Clingan's collegiate experience that was missed by all the scouts somehow made him more capable of adapting. NFL scouting is certainly a more exact science than is NBA scouting, but even they have a lot of whiffs with the 3 year requirement. At the end of the day, there's a whole lot of unknowns however you go about it.
Clingan had two years of college, and competed on a championship roster. He's better prepared than either Scoot or Sharpe. It's no surprise to me that he's adjusting better.
The fact that whatever you were eating crow about was actually just an illusion makes you sick and you puke up the crow you had eaten. Just saying that Scoot having arrived wasn't real not that he still can't get there.
Clingan also didn't have the upside of Scoot or Sharpe. A lumbering center is a player archetype that doesn't have a lot of value in today's NBA. So thats the flip side of potential - there is a lot more downside and chance to bust.
