I’ve been thinking about this. I wonder why they haven’t sent him to the g league yet? Did their season not start yet? If that’s the case, that would make sense. Otherwise, it kind of feels like they’ve been keeping him around because he’s actually close to getting some pt, and maybe they think that it will also hurt his confidence. Wish we had some insider info…this is painful to watch the games and just not know if he’s close to playing or not…
G League season started tonight
Ok, thanks. Worth seeing if he gets sent down in the next week or so.
I was very encouraged by the fact that Borrego only put in Mcdaniels, Bouk, and then Richards. Good to see he didn’t throw everyone at the end of the bench on. So that’s at least a great sign that Bouk has at minimum separated himself from the end of the pack and is very close to being given some time, or at the very least is the next man up.
FLASHED is the key word. Obviously the coaches see far more than us so its impossible for anyone who doesn't attend practices to know who should get minutes. If Bouk is too good for G-league it will be self-evident and therefore shouldn't be feared.
Quite frankly, PG requires a mindset of getting more satisfaction from making a great pass and seeing a teammate score than hitting a bucket yourself. This is the maturity process Chief talked about in the spring that well intended casual fans didn’t fully comprehend. I hope you are right, if he gets sent to the G League, he will use that time as an opportunity to do that vs. scoring more buckets himself. I hope he starts to really listen to people like Coach Hurley, who has his best interest at heart. While separating from inexperience advisors who don’t really understand the college or pro game nor the expectation of coaches and ownership.
You would think but he's still stuck on the bench. Hornets have been pretty terrible the last three games and he still hasn't gotten any minutes.
What you've seemingly never been able to grasp is that the ability "to paint his own portrait" in the NBA is the whole reason why he didn't need to come back to school in the first place. You don't need to be a finished product your rookie year in the NBA and plenty of kids mature once they're in the league. But yeah, poor Bouk with the terrible advisors that advised him correctly to lock in life changing guaranteed lottery money.
The OTE “guaranteed money” is now there for a 16 year old. Using your logic, the player should have so little confidence in his long term future, he should grab that short term and sighted money at age 16 and mortgage his long term future away, while Jeff Bezos gets a healthy % of future cash flow. There are reasons why some guys become billionaires.
The NBA guaranteed money is not really as conditional as you make it seem. It's basically impossible not to get 2 years which for a lottery pick is at minimum $6 million and overwhelming likely to get 4 for at least $15 (Bouk is getting $8.5 with 4 year upside of $19.2). Because even if 1 team doesn't like you, you're an asset on the books and they can trade you to a more risky/patient team with the 2nd team hoping the experience or their developmental infrastructure rattles you into line. The OTE money is not even in the same ballpark with we're assuming more strings attached. You're misconstruing or misunderstanding the argument: It isn't to always take any guaranteed money, it's to definitely take set for life guaranteed money. $6/$15+ million fits that description.
Chief will let recent events tell the story of whose sources and evaluation was of much higher quality.
NBA teams have access to multiple talented players. It’s not like a college team that has one scorer with the ball. A DNP guy on the bench is much closer to the G League than the type of scenarios you discussed. NBA contracts do have various conditions - ask Kyrie Irving.
Agree. The bottom line is whether he’s getting paid while working at his chosen profession, or doing it for free and getting a piece of paper.
It’s amazing how little confidence so many here have in James long term. Andre Drummond has made $137 million but James should be happy making a few million before the team finds an excuse to execute a disqualifier in his contract or find out he’s not a good player. That’s the type of thinking Bezos hopes players and their inexperience advisors have regarding his OTE investment. So in a sense, all you guys are on the other side of the betting table from Bezos. Good luck.
