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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 5139694, member: 833"] Tre Johnson = KD? Really, that is what you are going with? Every good athlete is the best player in the history of all players when they are freshmen. If every player that was anointed the next Lebron/KD/Steph/Chris Paul/Dirk by the fans turned out to be that good, every NBA and G League team would be 3 deep with first ballot Hall of Famers at every position. Back when high school recruiting was more important for roster building, the Boneyard would average anointing 2 freshman a year who were mortal locks to be the next Ray/Rip/Emeka/Kemba/Shabazz because Boneyard posters had watched a highlight video of our commit lighting up a no-defense AAU team at a tournament at some basketball barn in PA or CA. How many of them turned out to be that good? I count one Ray, one Rip, one Emeka... At a national level, there are 20ish of these "they could be the best of all time" players running around college right now, and another 100-150 that announcers regularly discuss as being locks for the NBA. The math doesn't work. Also, the actual best players of all time are often not anointed. No one thought Curry would be this good, every team in the NBA could have picked Giannis but passed (the Bucks didn't even want the pick), Jokic and Brunson were second rounders, Gilgeous-Alexander was a mid-first rounder, etc. It is highly likely that of the Top 10 players in the NBA in 2030, virtually no one has tagged 3 or 4 of them as even potential future NBA all-stars today. If people like you could predict this stuff, being an NBA GM would be a lot easier. A good test for how good a kid is going to be is how good is he now. If Tre Johnson was as good as you say he is, he should lay waste to his entire schedule. That is what KD did. Heck, that is what Carmelo did as a Frosh. If that kid was as good as you say, the kid should have had 3/4's of his points on layups and wide open shots, rather than have to hit half a dozen prayers like he did yesterday. If that kid can't shake 2024/2025 UConn's sketchy defense, how is he going to get away from NBA defenders? But you think he is the next KD? Sure. The kid is a selfish player. He may be athletic or a good shot maker, and maybe he will develop, maybe he won't. Right now, in December 2024, he is making his teammates worse than they would be otherwise. [/QUOTE]

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