Has Bailey worked out ANYWHERE? I'm not sure he has, and that raises even more questions regarding what he's doing and why.
For the sake of his stats (and next contract), a player like him probably NEEDS to land on a team where he can get plenty of latitude, rather than strict limits of a team trying to win big right now (with other better veteran players getting most of the shots and being higher up the pecking order). He may have seen PHI as a bad fit for those reasons -- but hard to see the same rationale for avoiding workouts with teams in slots 4-10.
He's from the greater ATL area. Does geography mean anything to him?
Is he just that confident? Or that scared? Is he hiding something? If I'm an NBA team, the more he hides, the scarier it gets.
And I have seen some draft analysts who really hate his game (which is based on forcing hard shots, which he makes a lot of, but raises questions of whether he can sustain against harder competition in the NBA). His year at Rutgers was a MAJOR negative too, since both he and Harper went there as elite prospects expected to dominate, yet they couldn't even get to the NCAA tourney (which means neither could even carry a college team). Some gurus are really pessimistic and think he has bust written all over him.
I can't see him dropping past BKN-TOR-PHX at 8-9-10. Who knows, some team earlier than that may like him a lot, and just say screw it, let's roll the dice.
For the sake of his stats (and next contract), a player like him probably NEEDS to land on a team where he can get plenty of latitude, rather than strict limits of a team trying to win big right now (with other better veteran players getting most of the shots and being higher up the pecking order). He may have seen PHI as a bad fit for those reasons -- but hard to see the same rationale for avoiding workouts with teams in slots 4-10.
He's from the greater ATL area. Does geography mean anything to him?
Is he just that confident? Or that scared? Is he hiding something? If I'm an NBA team, the more he hides, the scarier it gets.
And I have seen some draft analysts who really hate his game (which is based on forcing hard shots, which he makes a lot of, but raises questions of whether he can sustain against harder competition in the NBA). His year at Rutgers was a MAJOR negative too, since both he and Harper went there as elite prospects expected to dominate, yet they couldn't even get to the NCAA tourney (which means neither could even carry a college team). Some gurus are really pessimistic and think he has bust written all over him.
I can't see him dropping past BKN-TOR-PHX at 8-9-10. Who knows, some team earlier than that may like him a lot, and just say screw it, let's roll the dice.