CoolBreeze44 wrote:Cam, I don't think anybody would disagree that you are relentless at defending your favorites. It's not a bad thing, and in a way I admire it. But you should be able to acknowledge when you're wrong, and I've never seen you do that.
Can someone else please verify that I've stepped up and acknowledged Stauskas as a likely bust? I've done it more than once as it routinely gets thrown in my face (we never throw the things I'm right about in my face, though). I'm hoping he turns it around next year with Karl as HC. Three different coaches, an unstable locker room and a different high draft pick already ahead of you in the rotation is challenging. I'd like to think Nik bounces back, but for the most part, he hasn't looked like the guy I loved at Michigan. (He does have a sweet nickname now, though.)
I also said that I was wrong about Wiggins not being able to be a high scorer in the NBA. I was super worried about his handle and attitude towards offense. Now, those issues flair up from time to time, but he has four 30+ scoring outputs on the year and has proven to me that he can live at the FT line. Wiggins should be a very good scorer moving forward.
In my opinion, I'm pretty good about acknowledging when I'm both right and wrong. You shouldn't do one without the other. I'd also say that I'm more right than I am wrong.
Regardless, thanks for the call out.
I never mentioned Stauskas specifically, but I'll take your word that you've acknowledged error with him. And I'm really not calling you out as much as I'm making an observation. I like guys with strong opinions. I have them. It makes the board more interesting. But I swear, you could be tasked with arguing the virtues and righteousness of Nazi Germany, and I'd bet you would defend your position like Hitler was Gandhi.
"He's the nicest kid on and off the floor that I've ever met or played with," Brix said. A lot of people have said that, or things like that, about Karl-Anthony Towns, the Kentucky freshman whose career-high 25 points against Notre Dame saved the Wildcats' perfect season and sent them back to the Final Four. One NBA scout with a lottery-bound team called Towns "an off-the-charts sweetheart." John Calipari's assistant, Barry "Slice" Rohrssen, said he told scouts representing the franchises most likely to land the No. 1 pick in the draft the following:
"He's one of the best young men I've coached in twenty-plus years of doing this. When you bring Karl in for the pre-draft workout and interview, and then you drop him off at the hotel after taking him to dinner with your owner, that owner is going to turn around and ask you, 'How do we not take this guy?'"
Good to hear that about Towns, definitely don't have to worry about this kid off the court or killing chemistry. Between him, Ricky, and Wiggins, we'll have the friendliest future contender this league has ever seen! Now if only we didn't ditch all those amazing smilers..
mrhockey89 wrote:Good to hear that about Towns, definitely don't have to worry about this kid off the court or killing chemistry. Between him, Ricky, and Wiggins, we'll have the friendliest future contender this league has ever seen! Now if only we didn't ditch all those amazing smilers..
I'm not arguing. If we draft 1 or 2, it's Towns or Okafor. WCS also becons, because we suck so bad up front. But I cant help thinking whoever gets Hezonja gets the next Manu Ginobli
So tough for these young guys. I really like the idea of Johnson staying another year as that article postulates. Guaranteed money is hard to pass up, and somehow we have been thinking of someone staying all of college "too old". But it really is tough for players to develop on the fly with the game v practice ratio in the NBA. We are seeing that I think a bit with Zach, where it took really all year to start seeing some small progress.
I'm going to point out something that has yet to be said in this thread.
Karl-Anthony Towns should be a senior in high school this year. He shouldn't even be playing against collegiate competition.
He re-classified just to be able to play this year, and he was able to do that by taking online/extra classes while he was in high school to skip his junior year.
I've heard/read about so many NBA players discuss how important their senior year was to developing their game and readying them for the next level (college followed by NBA).
This is Towns' senior year, if you will.
Karl-Anthony's going to be a beast, and at least from this year, you could say he's a lock to develop his game. He's a completely different player than he was at the beginning of the season.
