Re: 2012 NBA Draft Prospects I like Harrison Barnes (outside the top 2) -- His game is better suited for the pro-game.
Re: 2012 NBA Draft Prospects My order outside the top 3 guys: 1. Thomas Robinson 2. Austin Rivers 3. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist 4. Bradley Beal 5. Jeremy Lamb 6. Damian Lillard (He's been moving up to almost top 10)
Re: 2012 NBA Draft Prospects Yuck. Only player I think will succeed in the NBA from NC this year is Marshall. I think Lamb is so much better than Barnes.
Re: 2012 NBA Draft Prospects No, I used to feel the same way about Barnes. I think he's a tad overrated. But, after watching him a ton this year, I see why he's thought of so highly. The game just comes to him naturally and he has all the tools. Whether he has the desire to be great is whats going to be the difference of whether he's Rudy Gay, or Tracy McGrady.
Re: 2012 NBA Draft Prospects It has to be a concern. Look at Babbitt. He dominated smaller, weaker players in a crappy league. It's becomes so difficult to evaluate a player who plays in a small weak conference with incredibly weak players. Sure, they can dominate there, but the jump to the NBA is much more than from a player in a major conference.
Re: 2012 NBA Draft Prospects Babbitt isn't the only player to come from a small conference. There is tons of successul players in the NBA that came from small conference schools.
Re: 2012 NBA Draft Prospects I'm watching the Pac-12 tourney right now and Tony Wroten is as athletic of a PG as you'll find. I'd gamble on him. He could be real good.
Re: 2012 NBA Draft Prospects Was just looking through the numbers of it briefly, looks like about 270 of the 430 NBA players come from the "big" conferences. Another 30 are from HS, and 51 foreign born. So about 19% of players come from small schools. Not a huge amount, but still a good chunk. Less small schools than HS and foreign combined, however.
Re: 2012 NBA Draft Prospects Have heard some Iman Shumpert comparisons with Wroten, what do you think?
Re: 2012 NBA Draft Prospects Not sure if I'd want him on the team if Nate is still coaching. He makes some dumb passes that Nate would sit him real quick for. But, he's big, athletic and has great vision. But, for the love of god he needs to finish at the rim better. All year long he'd get out on a fast break only to miss a contested layup.
Re: 2012 NBA Draft Prospects Picking a PG is risky if he's not a top-5 pick. Johnny Flynn comes to mind -- He looked great at 'Cuse but the pro-game just hasn't translated for him. He looks just as bad as Sebastian Telfair.
Re: 2012 NBA Draft Prospects Shumpert is good but would make no sense bringing in a player like that when Elliot Williams is here.
Re: 2012 NBA Draft Prospects ??? Flynn was a top 6 pick. So 5 is no problem, 6 is risky? I'd say picking anyone anywhere is risky.
Re: 2012 NBA Draft Prospects I don't want to bring in Shumpert, was asking about Wroten. And if he can play PG, we'd have an awfully big lineup of Wroten, Batum, SF, Aldridge, C
