Official 2016-2017 NBA Season Thread - NBA rules Chris Bosh has a career ending injury

Who is the MVP?

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How do you begin to quantify this? You're assuming that the one year spent in college would have made them into better overall players today?

That's assuming a lot man...

Plus you ignore they got PAID and are still getting PAID
i'm talking about the basketball perspective of it.
how did that help them if they barely got playing time?
 
Yea I just can't think of any actual good players taking this option. Only Jennings and mudiay from what I know
Terrance Ferguson this year

I'm sure it won't become the norm but who cares? It's a good thing for these young guys to have that option
 
How do you begin to quantify this? You're assuming that the one year spent in college would have made them into better overall players today?

That's assuming a lot man...

Plus you ignore they got PAID and are still getting PAID
i'm talking about the basketball perspective of it.
how did that help them if they barely got playing time?

Playing against pros everyday in practice in a pro style offense.
 
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a year in the dleague makes alot more sense than going overseas to me unless it's only about the bread
 
i'm talking about the basketball perspective of it.
how did that help them if they barely got playing time?
How many minutes did they play?

Again, you're assuming one year in college makes them that much better today? I don't see how you can quantify this
 
I honestly don't...
mudiay and jennings didn't benefit from it so I don't see why kids are still doing it

He averaged 18/6/6 in about 15 games. (EVERYBODY puts up numbers in China).....then he got hurt. And played a few playoff games.

***** would've just learned a few lessons from Larry brown....and moved on. Sometimes, y'all don't realize just how short the 1 and donee stay in college. They are in college from August until March. After that.....they gone.

Might as well go make a million dollars overseas if you are projected as a lottery pick when you come back.
 
This is all very speculative. We wouldn't know what the outcome would be had they not gone to college and went straight into the NBA. Just to assume they'd be fine or be where they exactly are isn't fair or right for that matter.

Of course we don't know for sure. But if there wasn't a rule that was mandatory, pretty much ever name on the list would have gone to the league straight out of high school. Most everyone was a top 3 prospect going into college, it actually hurt some of their stock by going to school where you're at the mercy of these clown coaches and their systems.
 
Lakers better beat the pistons. I'm gonna be in there with my laker gear on, I hope they dont embarrass me.
 
Ppl really trying to argue that a year of school and classes prepares kids for the nba huh? NCAA getting to that bag 
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The difference for me is in HS all these dudes are dominating and getting buckets at ease but simply overpowering and being larger or more athletic. College or overseas gives you a better transition to the NBA on pace, size, and actually working for baskets and working on defense.
 
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He averaged 18/6/6 in about 15 games. (EVERYBODY puts up numbers in China).....then he got hurt. And played a few playoff games.

***** would've just learned a few lessons from Larry brown....and moved on. Sometimes, y'all don't realize just how short the 1 and donee stay in college. They are in college from August until March. After that.....they gone.

Might as well go make a million dollars overseas if you are projected as a lottery pick when you come back.
I didn't know that. so yeah you have a point. I have a question though
If you want to have a successful NBA career would you play overseas or play a year for Coach Cal?
 
 
The difference for me is in HS all these dudes are dominating and getting buckets at ease but simply overpowering and being larger or more athletic. College or overseas give you a better transition to the NBA on pace, size, and actually working for baskets.
College doesn't do this at all. This is a huge fallacy. The NBA and the NCAA isn't a different sport but in some aspects, it kind of is.
 
Of course we don't know for sure. But if there wasn't a rule that was mandatory, pretty much ever name on the list would have gone to the league straight out of high school. Most everyone was a top 3 prospect going into college, it actually hurt some of their stock by going to school where you're at the mercy of these clown coaches and their systems.

Still a speculation. There's NO WAY to be assured the players you listed would be performing at the same level currently had they foregone college and went straight to the NBA.

If you're making this speculation, same can be said how one year of college was beneficial to them? Get what I mean? It's all moot and doesn't really go anywhere.
 
I didn't know that. so yeah you have a point. I have a question though
If you want to have a successful NBA career would you play overseas or play a year for Coach Cal?
Successful NBA careers have nothing to do with Coach Cal when you're already a lotto pick before you even get to him.
 
I'm not arguing that ncaa helps you
but I don't think playing overseas helps you either
 
Of course college can help certain athletes

That is totally besides the point

If you have the talent/potential to be drafted, at any age, they should have the right to enter the draft

That's fair and I can't argue that because if you're allowed to die for you country at 18 then yeah you should be allowed. However if we're gonna defend these players rites to enter the draft at 18 then we should also be fair across the board. Let the football players go too. I never see this argument made for them. It's okay for them to slave for the NCAA but not the basketball players.

Anyone who argues for high school players to go pro right away because of the unfair practice that the NCAA is. You also gotta stand up for all the athletes.
 
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Successful NBA careers have nothing to do with Coach Cal when you're already a lotto pick before you even get to him.
how do you know this?
Duke gets the same type of recruits and they are nowhere near as successful as Kentucky's recruits
 
College for pro ballers is just dumb.. Total waste of time


Football is totally different because it's a contact sport. Grown men don't belong on the field with 18 and 19 year olds.
 
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That's fair and I can't argue that because if you're allowed to die for you country at 18 then yeah you should be allowed. However if we're gonna defend these players rites to enter the draft at 18 then we should also be fair across the board. Let the football players go too. I never see this argument made for them. It's okay for them to slave for the NCAA but not the basketball players.

Anyone who argues for high school players to go pro right away because of the unfair practice that the NCAA is. Then you gotta stand up for all the athletes.
At least in football, we're talking about a dangerous, physical sport

When it comes to Hockey and Football, I'm not trying to send kids in there man...
 
That's fair and I can't argue that because if you're allowed to die for you country at 18 then yeah you should be allowed. However if we're gonna defend these players rites to enter the draft at 18 then we should also be fair across the board. Let the football players go too. I never see this argument made for them. It's okay for them to slave for the NCAA but not the basketball players.

Anyone who argues for high school players to go pro right away because of the unfair practice that the NCAA is. Then you gotta stand up for all the athletes.
For sure, and like I said a few weeks back, it's even worse for football players because they're killing themselves and giving themselves brain damage and CTE and **** for like 3 years before they even have a chance to make money for their troubles.
 
 
 
The difference for me is in HS all these dudes are dominating and getting buckets at ease but simply overpowering and being larger or more athletic. College or overseas give you a better transition to the NBA on pace, size, and actually working for baskets.
College doesn't do this at all. This is a huge fallacy. The NBA and the NCAA isn't a different sport but in some aspects, it kind of is.
Playing UNC, Duke, & Cuse in 2 weeks, is definitely different than playing Westside Nowhere Prep Academy. Your playing elite talent WAYYY more often.
 
I like the one and done. It weeds out some guys and yet doesn't punish the good ones too much for their 6 months of service
 
how do you know this?
Duke gets the same type of recruits and they are nowhere near as successful as Kentucky's recruits
The players that kentucky gets were better than the players duke got in HS.
 
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