02-16-2026, 11:29 PM
One thing we tend to overlook about these draftees (or at least I do) is that when we evaluate what they are doing this year, we (I) do it with the idea that this season is telling us what they will be like in the NBA. And the reality is that they are learning as they go, so to speak.
But they have just leveled up. It may take some time to be ready. At the end of the season, they will hopefully be better than when they started. And if they were in the NCAA next season, maybe even better.
But when I watch, if they aren't at a high level in THIS game, I am ready to push them way down the list. That's based on my assumption that all the others are consistently awesome game after game (which, once I think more, is not a good assumption after all).
Heck, so many of these guys get to the NBA and it takes them 2-3-4 years to be any good -- and THEN they sprout.
What a crapshoot. And yay Cooper Flagg!!! Where's the nimrod saying he would be about 6th in this draft class, what a dolt!!
But they have just leveled up. It may take some time to be ready. At the end of the season, they will hopefully be better than when they started. And if they were in the NCAA next season, maybe even better.
But when I watch, if they aren't at a high level in THIS game, I am ready to push them way down the list. That's based on my assumption that all the others are consistently awesome game after game (which, once I think more, is not a good assumption after all).
Heck, so many of these guys get to the NBA and it takes them 2-3-4 years to be any good -- and THEN they sprout.
What a crapshoot. And yay Cooper Flagg!!! Where's the nimrod saying he would be about 6th in this draft class, what a dolt!!
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