DRAFT: #18 [Green] & #31 [Terry] & trade for #36 [Tyler Bey]

[KillerLeft]

Look, we're saying the same things, just in different ways. Here's how I see it:

• Most of these guys are the biggest, longest players on their team until they get to the NBA.
  
• The biggest, longest players tend to be played as bigs. 
  
• Unfortunately, in AMERICA, the majority of those players not really being forced to learn a lot of fundamental things as they advance through the machine. They learn how to use their size and athletic ability to their advantage, for sure, but they don't learn EVERYTHING, like the Euros do.
  
• By the time they get to the NBA, while their size/athletic ability is still a positive, it's far from being SPECIAL, at that point. 
  
• Every year, we see players who, due to prototypical body design, are "projected" at certain positions that they have NEVER played to that point. 
  
• Some of them can eventually make the jump and become proficient at their new positions, but it seems like way more of them can't (at least in the amount of time they're given to do so in the "professional" world) than can. 
  

If I'm going ALL IN on someone doing something completely different that what they've been successful doing in the past, then I'd want to see some evidence that they can do it. 

Again, if he's really a WING with a 7'1" wingspan, you've got something. If he's a small BIG for the NBA, he could still be a good player, but he's probably not a special one. I came away from that first video with the two guys talking thinking he was the latter. It's just my opinion.

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So you have watched one video? You have a HUGE and LOCKED IN opinion already. It's impressive.

I specifically said numerous times that the one video you provided was all I had to base my opinions on, and that they could be wrong. Pretty sure I conceded this in literally every post. Time and time again, I have stated that I'm not a college basketball guy. I have a "locked in" opinion of what that one video showed - that's all. More evidence could change my opinion of the player, for sure.

It seems disingenuous and a little bit mean spirited to use that as a source of sarcasm. Sorry I don't agree with you. I'm just trying to talk basketball, pal.