Comments on: 2012 NBA Draft: The lottery bigs and their musical chairs

By: jkaflagg

jkaflagg — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:59:35 +0000

It would be interesting to save this article to look back on in about 3 years – it seems that about 90 % of the bigs drafted turn out to be stiffs who play a few minutes a game until their rookie deals expire and they get cut to make room for the next stiff. Sadly, I’m sure some of these guys could play given solid coaching and the right situation ; but the one-and-done college experience seems to hurt these players more than all others……

By: camnellum12

camnellum12 — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:23:23 +0000

I agree with you on that, but it’s the European influence on the bigs. Bigs love to float and cut from the perimeter, which is very FIBA style basketball. Pau Gasol and Dirk Nowitzki fits this FIBA style, and I think they influenced that on the current generation. I was listening to Alonzo Mourning last fall, and he said Shaq and himself were “dinosaurs” when they played, because they were the only true back to the basket centers. Andrew Bynum, Tim Duncan, Roy Hibbert to name a few are true centers, but I have come to terms that big men nowadays love roaming like SF’s.

By: savvybynature

savvybynature — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:20:05 +0000

College is about making money for the college, not developing players or doing what’s best for them. How many times have you seen colleges play players at a position that they will have no chance of playing in the NBA, because it ives them the best chance to win and make more money.
That’s why it’s such a joke that the league tells adults that they can’t enter the NBA unless they go to college. You can go to war but not the NBA, you aren’t mentally tough enough! LMAO, what a joke!

By: dgbk

dgbk — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:12:49 +0000

same way shootin guards cant shoot… or hit their free throws… college coaches are tryin to win games not teach…..

if a player is a one trick pony and that one trick he is great at why teach and mess his game up….. most athletic big man can dunk or just catch alley opps all day they dont need moves in high school or college

By: londonaiooo

londonaiooo — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:05:10 +0000

How do college big guys come out of college with no post moves. Isn’t the point of college to teach? What are these coaches doing? Everybody who plays ball should have at least a go to post move or two, and that goes double for anyone in the frontcourt. And that goes one hundred times more if you’re about to get paid millions to play.