G-League to NCAA

[aceboon]

didn't see this earlier, finally a college coach who is straight up about it

 

[HW611]

didn't see this earlier, finally a college coach who is straight up about it

Facts, get rid of both.

 

[RuffRuff]

Interesting piece

 

[HW611]

Interesting piece

 

[RuffRuff]

Blending what the best each option has to offer is likely the best model.

There are only 1-2 programs that can run the Duke model, and even with that they are at the mercy of ensuring classes have the caliber of freshmen they need. There is no Flagg or Boozer in this next class, they'll have to get creative and probably will.

 

[HW611]

Blending what the best each option has to offer is likely the best model.

There are only 1-2 programs that can run the Duke model, and even with that they are at the mercy of ensuring classes have the caliber of freshmen they need. There is no Flagg or Boozer in this next class, they'll have to get creative and probably will.

Speaking moreso to the bottom right of the chart with MSU, Purdue, Bama, and Houston than Duke.

Don’t think it’s a surprise Duke has been the only old blue blood to find success in this era though.

 

[superjohn]

Interesting piece

That was a lot of words to not even mention the team that's been by far the most successful in the transfer portal era. Fail

 

[RuffRuff]

That was a lot of words to not even mention the team that's been by far the most successful in the transfer portal era. Fail

This is all fluid until a lot of things settle. Right now there are G league guys in play. Last year there was COVID 5th year guys, and the Final 4 sans Duke was stacked with old multi year transfers. There was no cap this year and economics were imbalanced.

The general theme is trying to hit your roster with enough guys you can groom year over year that become productive and the core of a roster. That can be done with freshmen or it can be done with soph/junior transfers. Then you fill in in the gaps of that core with transfers or amazing freshmen. Hurley's doing it, a guy like Pope looks like he's setting up for it too. Let's see where Painter goes from here.

 

[Flipside]

I appreciated Jay Bilas' breakdown of this topic yesterday

... not a direct quote, but to the tune of "So what if we get to the point of an X-NBA player that has eligibility, going to play college basketball ... it's just a dude that just wants to play ball ... is that a crime?" ... and went on about young e.g. pro tennis players (I am former NELTA/USTA junior, so I related), that go on to play in college - there's never much noise in that court of opinion & judgement

 

[UConnTrumbull]

I’ll just leave this here lol