Waynearchetype wrote:Trying to decide Scoots career based on 1/8th of a season, especially his first season, has always been a bit silly.
A more interesting aspect, if you want to deep dive into this, is why do highly touted prospects from G-League Ignite seem to struggle getting going in the NBA? It definitely seems like the lack of something to win for Ignite shields these kids from the pressure to excel in the NBA. Or is it a lack of playing in front of a crowd?
Jalen Green
Dyson Daniels
Jonathan Kuminga
All highly touted prospects who have looked like its taken them longer to adjust to the NBA than kids out of college or foreign leagues. It's a small sample size of course, but seems more relevant than Scoots 10 games in the NBA. Especially with Ron, Matas, and Izan all potentially going in the lottery this year. Will teams start to get wise on Ignite failing to develop these highly rated athletes?
That said, I do gotta give a hearty laugh to the folks who were saying Scoot was a subpar athlete because he didn't dunk a lot in the G-league. Even when Scoot was playing extremely bad at the start of the season you'd see him just outrun his competition, he just doesn't dunk a lot (until this last game at least).
Green was taken #2. His game hasn't improved at all. Why are we blaming Ignite and not just accepting that he was overrated? Mobley was taken a pick after him after going to USC. He hasn't developed at all either. Why isn't his decision to go to college being blamed for it? Like with Green, I think he was just overrated as a prospect. In both their cases, their physical profile and athleticism gave them both high floor and high ceilings. Not every player reaches their ceiling.
Scouts said Green was 6'7" but he's actually just a shade over 6'4". Since he's a poor 3 pt shooter, combined with his average height and small build for a shooting guard, it makes him a liability on defense, so combined with his lack of shooting, he's stuck at his floor. Mobley was thought to be a potential stretch 5 by scouts I guess because he shot an okay 30% from three (college line) and 70% FT? Someone who could anchor a defense, defend the perimeter and take centers out of the paint with his shooting. Well, he's kinda not any of those things. He's never blocked 2 shots a game in his three seasons, he struggles against good wings and guards on the perimeter and he can't spread the floor with his own shooting.
Both guys are still young so there's still hope but enough time has gone on with no development to sort of have to accept this is likely as good as it gets. Maybe this is proof that that supposedly strong draft class with "top of the draft type talent" (that the 2024 draft class supposedly lacks) was overrated and the scouts got it wrong?
