my take is everyone did the right thing. he put in the work, passed the tests required to play. but because the nature of the injury he was always going to have a problem and need a follow up procedure. many folks here suspected that was kept under wraps until he got drafted and now it comes out he might need more work done.
NIL wont solve that, nor would a "GM". if you want to prevent what happened with JQ, you need a CBA that outlines passing physicals like they do in the pros when a trade happens. but you will never get university presidents or ADs to want that so its just going to keep happening.
This is why you don't want to be the program that gets guy for top $$. I'm going to be curious to how motivated Stokes is this year.
Dumb. His knee is why he slid. His knee kept him from doing athletic testing
he is getting yaxel money. its not about the amount. without a CBA you wont be able to regulate "game checks". so the best you can do is evaluate character. i'm sure milan will play as hard as he can....he is a high character guy. maybe less upside as stokes. but maybe half way through the year stokes losses it and it goes sideways. who knows if milan plays well or improves, but i dont doubt his intent.
Koa Peat goes 30th? I would have taken him all day over JQ. At least he produced and played.
That’s their built in excuse why he’s terrible at basketball!
There’s some guys that were picked late/not picked that would’ve made a TON in college, guess that’s the risk you take. But agreed, Peat is a decent jumper away from being a legitimate starter on a good NBA team
Please list the links to these current NBA medical “evaluations” (plural) stating as such, AND I WILL SELF BAN IMMEDIATELY… Or, STFU with these made up excuses, enabling the guy to be the phony that he is!
He’s literally Robert Williams (played for A&M and the Celtics), uber athletic with great defensive timing, net negative on offense, and can’t stay healthy to save his life
Peterson did not want to be in college and would have went straight to the NBA if he could have like other high schoolers before the rules changed.
He's a much better passer and ball handler but is similar to Williams as a rim runner and shot blocker.
None of that excuses the quit performances of both of Pope's UK teams. Regardless of who is available they should play hard and with purpose. Pope's teams do neither.
Plus player who can score from outside five feet. Especially in the modern NBA. It can work as evidenced by the a Knicks and Mitchell Robinson but he plays like 20mpg max. Much like Wemby, KAT can stretch the floor as well. It doesn’t work often and you have to be a special defender and rebounder to even try. Look at how hard it was to make Rudy Gobert work with KAT. He clogged the paint and couldn’t scored outside of it.
Definitely could have made a killing coming back. Yeah if Peat gets a jumper he’s going to be good, but even he is way more refined offensively than JQ.
My first NBA draft experience was in 1993 with Brown/Collins breaking down the players. That's when I first realized how smart Brown was.
The Spurs organization know what they're doing and have a great draft track record. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for sure.
