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Originally Posted by SniperSB23
First it was the high schoolers and now it is the college guys. The NBA just doesn't get it. They got burned by so many "we draft Jermaine O'Neal out of high school, pay him for four years, and have him leave as a free agent and become a good player" moments that they had to force everyone into the NBA to not be able to draft high schoolers to protect them from their own idiocy. Yet amazingly, now they are doing the exact same thing with unproven college players. I'm not positive if you are just an NBA guy or if you watch a lot of college basketball but as a college basketball fan it isn't hard to find the guys that will translate to the pros and which won't. Anyone that watched college basketball games last year shouldn't be surprised that DeJuan Blair, Ty Lawson, and Steph Curry all had far better first games than Hasheem Thabeet, James Harden, and Tyreke Evans who were all taken before them. And Thabeet/Harden/Evans are the guys that will probably make it! It is the idiocy of the picks by the bad teams from 8 to 37 that makes you really question what these GMs are doing.
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Scott dont you think that making judgements on players after one game is a bit premature?
Maybe those guys were more NBA ready because they played more but it is far too soon to declare any of them successes or busts.