1 got drafted the other didn't. There's a reason why!! If Sticks got the ball as much as Dyson did that year Stanley would have been a at least late first round pick with a guaranteed contract right now!! Its a total shame what happen that year, A complete debacle!!
Im probley Jerome Dyson's hardest critic on this forum. I have never said he was a "locker room cancer" He doesn't seem to come off that way and i wasn't in the locker room to know if he was or not. What i didn't like about him was he was trying way to hard to impress NBA scouts that year. He tried to get himself drafted that year. He knew he had to make up for lost times due to injury and other things that kept him off the court and with a lot of guys leaving from the past year he thought he was a made man and could do what he wanted. Jerome put him self first that year and the team second. The scouts at the games were there for STANLEY ROBINSON or players on the opposing team not him. But he tried to do everything in his selfish power to try to get there attention. It didn't work for him (went undrafted) and didn't help the team. (first round NIT lost at home) In conclusion I think his head got big his senior year and wanted to go to the NBA so bad that he put the team second. That's what bothers me.
Dyson would have been a first round pick the year before if he didn't injure his knee... Stanley never lived to his hype. I love Sticks, was a pleasure to watch jump 4 feet above the rim, but he offered little else other than an exciting play once a game.
ahahahahhaha Jerome Dyson a first round pick in the 2009 draft ahahahahahah your on some serious drugs bro!
I wish I was. But it's true. You can repaint history anyway you'd like, but he was a stud prospect that season and would have been gone after that season had he not injured the knee
I could give you that he could have got drafted but I am doing a little research on nbadraft.net and i only read of Jerome going mid second round at best. Cant find of anything of him going first round at all. I do feel that Jerome was not a cancer but I think he had some selfishness his senior year.
Define selfishness... did he try and take over games when his team was (by many fans and media members standards) underachieving? Was that the best thing for the team? I have to assume it was because otherwise I imagine Coach would yank him. If the way he played continued, and he continued to play 30+ minutes, I have to go with the assumption that that is what Coach thought was best for the team.
Selfishness as he wanted to be a NBA player so bad so he started to jack up bad shots,gamble defensively to try to get steals,wanted to score more then find open teammates. Calhoun would never just yanked Jerome. I remember his last regular season game against south Florida he benched the starters but never just jerome. He loved him way to much to do that to him. Jerome Dyson underachieved the whole year his team didn't win games and he didn't get drafted. His planned failed. To me there's no discussion here.
I hear ya not worth arguing about 3 seasons ago. Dyson is fighting for a NBA roster spot good for him. But there is also Stanley Robinson who has been M.I.A from basketball for a year. It kills me to see all that freakish raw talent Stanley has that isn't being utilized like it could be. I still have hopes for him to somehow someway carve a niche in the NBA.
