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Post by Roadrunner on Mar 25, 2011 7:43:41 GMT -5
Kemba Walker is by far the most exciting and most dominant player in college basketball this year. I just wish we could draft him sigh... JRMZT, Walker might be around towards the middle of the first round. It really depends on what he measures (height) at the combine. Nice job w/ that region. Wow, you had 'Zona over Duke. |
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Post by jrmzt on Mar 25, 2011 8:31:46 GMT -5
Kemba Walker is by far the most exciting and most dominant player in college basketball this year. I just wish we could draft him sigh... JRMZT, Walker might be around towards the middle of the first round. It really depends on what he measures (height) at the combine. Nice job w/ that region. Wow, you had 'Zona over Duke. I always have Duke choking. Had em choking last year as well. 8-9 times outta ten, Duke chokes halfway. Pity my other regions kinda got roughed up. Never expected Butler to do so well and Utah St. to just fail so bad..and I banked too much on established coaches like Tom Izzo and Bob Huggins to get far..darn it.. I doubt Kemba will be available in the middle. Not with his tourney performance and not after people have soon guys like Ty Lawson who even though aren't too tall, have become stars in their own right. Heck Kemba is the same height as Mo Williams except better. |
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Post by Celtic17 on Mar 25, 2011 21:12:21 GMT -5
So much for winning the last two years. My bracket is in the tank. Been fun anyway.
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Post by Roadrunner on Mar 25, 2011 21:41:22 GMT -5
So much for winning the last two years. My bracket is in the tank. Been fun anyway. You got Jimmer'd. |
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Post by jrmzt on Mar 27, 2011 16:27:08 GMT -5
wow Kansas was the only no.1 I thought had it in them and they lost to 11th ranked VCU. Shows how useless being a no.1 seed is. Worst no.1 seed of course has to be Duke since so many of their players returned..they had that veteran element and still choked.
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Post by Roadrunner on Mar 27, 2011 21:19:02 GMT -5
NCAA basketball, 1 & done rule, has brought parity. Mid major teams, like VCU and Butler have a chance now, and major teams, like UCONN and UK, better hope they stay more than 1-year.
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Post by jrmzt on Mar 27, 2011 22:25:13 GMT -5
Yeah the NCAA needs to make a minimum rule. Unless you go out of high school, if you decide to enter college you should need to at least be there 2 years. I really feel Avery Bradley needed another year to refine his skills..same with many other players who were one and dones..Yet you cant force them to go to college..so if they choose to go straight out of high school, not often are they good enough to warrant a first round pick.
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Post by eja117 on Mar 28, 2011 11:19:31 GMT -5
Why does it need to have this rule? I'm not the biggest fan of rules that tell people what they can and can't do.
They don't have rules that if a major chemistry lab offers a job to a top young chemist he has to stay x amount of years. Why should sports?
It just comes off as indentured servitude.
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Post by jrmzt on Mar 28, 2011 15:11:18 GMT -5
Why does it need to have this rule? I'm not the biggest fan of rules that tell people what they can and can't do. They don't have rules that if a major chemistry lab offers a job to a top young chemist he has to stay x amount of years. Why should sports? It just comes off as indentured servitude. Well technically a major chemistry lab would only offer a job to a young chemist who has had the qualifications. Same with many other jobs. All I'm saying is that making them stay in school the extra year is sometimes better overall for their careers..noones asking them to stay the whole 4..but a guy like Avery Bradley if he stayed in school would have been much better off. Kinda like Kemba Walker..he wasn't great when he started college but now as a junior, he has excelled alot since his freshman year..and it was in college where he honed his skills with constant competition against future NBA prospects while a guy like Bradley is a bench warmer and who knows what his future might have been had he stayed to get more coaching in college. Its not a rule telling someone what they can or cant do..but rather a rule that looks at their best interests. I mean you have rules telling you not to speed over a 100..do you tell yourself "why should i listen to what someone tells me to do?" ..because the rule is in place to prevent you from a higher chance of a fatal accident. Face it..plenty of rules out there which tell you what you can or cant do. An extra year in college wont kill these kids. They live on a scholarship, they play sports all the time..its not like we're asking em to slave away at a gulag in northern russia. |
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Post by Celtic17 on Mar 28, 2011 20:39:12 GMT -5
Nice job jrmzt..........
Messed up tourney at that. lol
That's what makes it fun.
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Post by Roadrunner on Mar 28, 2011 22:03:23 GMT -5
Why does it need to have this rule? I'm not the biggest fan of rules that tell people what they can and can't do. They don't have rules that if a major chemistry lab offers a job to a top young chemist he has to stay x amount of years. Why should sports? It just comes off as indentured servitude. It should be known as the "Kwame Brown" rule. I think GMs were upset drafting a player, w/ tremendous upside, only to flop in the NBA. |
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Post by eja117 on Mar 29, 2011 19:56:57 GMT -5
If they don't want to have Kwame Browns they need to stop drafting those guys. They don't complain about drafting the Dwight Howards. The Magic had a tough decision to make that year. It was between him and Emeka and they made it right. The Kwame year was awful. The top senior was Shane Battier. The #2 pick was Tyson Chandler. #4 was Eddy Curry. There was virtually no way to make the right pick at #1 that year.
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Post by Roadrunner on Mar 29, 2011 22:09:09 GMT -5
If they don't want to have Kwame Browns they need to stop drafting those guys. They don't complain about drafting the Dwight Howards. The Magic had a tough decision to make that year. It was between him and Emeka and they made it right. The Kwame year was awful. The top senior was Shane Battier. The #2 pick was Tyson Chandler. #4 was Eddy Curry. There was virtually no way to make the right pick at #1 that year. I think the issue w/ drafting HS players, is that you only see them play against inferior competition. College is a slightly better projection, because the competition is better. |
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Post by eja117 on Mar 30, 2011 18:06:21 GMT -5
One thing that annoys me is that people are often very pick and choose about people being able to go pro out of high school.
Carpenter - sure
nba - no
nfl - heck no
tennis - sure
baseball - sure
hockey - sure
golf - no, unless you're Michelle Wie, in which case yes
politics - no
medical doctor - no, unless you're Doogie Howser.
Marines so you can go die on a beach or blow something up - heck yes
police officer - no
Private pilot - yes
military pilot - if it's WW2 you can be 17 and fly a torpedo bomber like George Bush Sr, otherwise heck no
commercial pilot - yeah right
pro driver - probably not, unless it's one of those little kid motorcycle things
beauty pageant - only Miss Teen USA, unless it's one of those little kid things.
artist - sure
Where is the consistency?
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Post by Celtic17 on Mar 30, 2011 20:39:18 GMT -5
Life in a bubble might sound fun.
I'm just happy being in the middle of our brackets this season. I don't even watch NCAA regular season play. Got lucky a few times with my picks.
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