Johnson out tomorrow

[BGesus4]

I’m excited to see his return when he’s ready. As long as no one uses the “Ferrari in the garage” analogy.

 

[I Bleed Blue]

I’m excited to see his return when he’s ready. As long as no one uses the “Ferrari in the garage” analogy.

How bout Porsche in the body shop?

 

[runner11]

What you've seen is irrelevant for his NBA chances, sorry. He's not growing any shorter, losing any inches on his wingspan, or losing anything on his vertical leap (assuming he fully heals). Hurley famously said he has wall (lottery) potential. We think Karaban is pretty good, and Samson was playing better than him in the secret scrimmages (and seemingly a little worse in practice when Karaban was fully healthy).

If he shows the ability to shoot consistently at 6'10 and block shots with his 7'5" wingspan, he's going to get NBA interest, even if he's still pretty raw elsewhere. And if he has NBA interest, he'll probably leave to go play pro somewhere, whether or not that's NBA is TBD. Probably won't be after this year considering the injury, but very well could be after next once he fills out more and learns the game a bit more from Hurley and practicing against Sanogo/Karaban/Clingan. Reports are that he worked very hard this offseason, so we'd expect further improvement next year. It's extremely unlikely he'd stick around for 2 additional years after next year without going pro in some capacity.

Further, it seems unlikely that a top 60 recruit will be fine being a career backup (playing behind Karaban/Clingan and possibly Stewart for forseeable future years) in the transfer portal era, so it seems unlikely he'd stick around either way, so then his 5th year eligibility would be extremely moot and the team would be much more served by having him play this year as opposed to redshirting.

I have to laugh at the line that he probably won’t go pro after this year but overall right on. With his measurables, he is gonna go league if he is productive on the floor. Whether or not he is productive, we’ll see.

 

[HuskyHawk]

What you've seen is irrelevant for his NBA chances, sorry. He's not growing any shorter, losing any inches on his wingspan, or losing anything on his vertical leap (assuming he fully heals). Hurley famously said he has wall (lottery) potential. We think Karaban is pretty good, and Samson was playing better than him in the secret scrimmages (and seemingly a little worse in practice when Karaban was fully healthy).

If he shows the ability to shoot consistently at 6'10 and block shots with his 7'5" wingspan, he's going to get NBA interest, even if he's still pretty raw elsewhere. And if he has NBA interest, he'll probably leave to go play pro somewhere, whether or not that's NBA is TBD. Probably won't be after this year considering the injury, but very well could be after next once he fills out more and learns the game a bit more from Hurley and practicing against Sanogo/Karaban/Clingan. Reports are that he worked very hard this offseason, so we'd expect further improvement next year. It's extremely unlikely he'd stick around for 2 additional years after next year without going pro in some capacity.

Further, it seems unlikely that a top 60 recruit will be fine being a career backup (playing behind Karaban/Clingan and possibly Stewart for forseeable future years) in the transfer portal era, so it seems unlikely he'd stick around either way, so then his 5th year eligibility would be extremely moot and the team would be much more served by having him play this year as opposed to redshirting.

Agreed. He’s not staying 5 years, and maybe not 4. The injury is a setback for sure. I keep mentioning, but it falls on deaf ears, that Johnson is, like Sanogo, a guy who picked up the game recently. It’s not reasonable to act like either are American kids who played since Kindergarten. Their rate of improvement is going to be much higher, whether we‘ve seen it or, due to injury, not.

 

[auror]

I have to laugh at the line that he probably won’t go pro after this year but overall right on. With his measurables, he is gonna go league if he is productive on the floor. Whether or not he is productive, we’ll see.

Bench guys on good teams get scouted better than bench guys on bad teams, assuming he comes back within next few weeks. You never know.