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[AJC88]

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
And as far as him being referred to as a cancer- I don't know how to search for specific key words on this board, but I'm sure if you entered "cancer" and "Jerome Dyson" you would find a large number of board members refer to him as such.

 

[sportsjunky1]

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
And as far as him being referred to as a cancer- I don't know how to search for specific key words on this board, but I'm sure if you entered "cancer" and "Jerome Dyson" you would find a large number of board members refer to him as such.

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.

 

[AJC88]

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.

MAUConn fan may have hit on something before, maybe the team just wasn't that good (paraphrase).
Maybe Jerome was doing as he was instructed, or what he believed would help them win. You see it as selfish, I saw it as a kid who bashed his face into the court, got up, pulled out a few teeth, and kept playing. I loved his heart. Some don't.

 

[sportsjunky1]

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.

MAUConn fan may have hit on something before, maybe the team just wasn't that good (paraphrase).
Maybe Jerome was doing as he was instructed, or what he believed would help them win. You see it as selfish, I saw it as a kid who bashed his face into the court, got up, pulled out a few teeth, and kept playing. I loved his heart. Some don't.

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.

 

[dapriest]

Arguing either side of the Dyson debate should be grounds for an immediate 2 week ban.
Everybody needs to let it go. Both sides.

 

[mauconnfan]

Last thing I will say, Dogbreath2U hit the nail on the head as he tried to do too much and didn't play within the system his senior year. Question is was it for the NBA scouts or was it because he thought he could help the team which wasn't performing as well as they thought they should, provide the spark??

We'll never know but we know he played hard in his Husky uni, is trying to get latched on to the NBA as we speak and working hard to do it and we should all root for the ex-Husky in reaching his dreams!!

Done

 

[Huskies4ever]

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!!

Sticks got drafted because he was an athletic freak of nature. Nothing more. When he did get the ball on the perimeter, he wouldn't do anything with it. This is by no means an attack on Stanley, merely, pointing out that he wasn't suited to being the man and having an offense run through him.

 

[Husk-E]

This argument is just getting sad. It's like we're a bunch of eight-year-olds arguing over who punched whom. People need to realize that what happened in the past doesn't matter now. We have a Uconn grad competing for a roster spot in the NBA and there are still people that argue over how well he played here. That's just sad.

 

[sportsjunky1]

This argument is just getting sad. It's like we're a bunch of eight-year-olds arguing over who punched whom. People need to realize that what happened in the past doesn't matter now. We have a Uconn grad competing for a roster spot in the NBA and there are still people that argue over how well he played here. That's just sad.

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.