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shakes0 wrote:11 players have been drafted out of Ignite. the only one even close to developing into a good player is Kuminga and you could argue that only happened because he spent the last two years learning how to basketball from a franchise like Golden State.
It is an absolute and total failure.
shakes0 wrote:11 players have been drafted out of Ignite. the only one even close to developing into a good player is Kuminga and you could argue that only happened because he spent the last two years learning how to basketball from a franchise like Golden State.
It is an absolute and total failure.
Braggins wrote:I think the GLeague has the potential to be the best development path for elite recruits if done right. I hope they don't scrap the idea all together and instead look for a better way to do it.
Slightly related, but I like how the narrative about the GLeague (as it relates to the draft) last year was that the GLeague was too easy and you cant trust any numbers the Ignite guys put up there, but now a year later we've fully come around to people admitting that actually the GLeague is too difficult for 18/19 year olds to compete on their own and the entire thing might have to be scrapped because of it.
jvsimonetti0514 wrote:Braggins wrote:I think the GLeague has the potential to be the best development path for elite recruits if done right. I hope they don't scrap the idea all together and instead look for a better way to do it.
Slightly related, but I like how the narrative about the GLeague (as it relates to the draft) last year was that the GLeague was too easy and you cant trust any numbers the Ignite guys put up there, but now a year later we've fully come around to people admitting that actually the GLeague is too difficult for 18/19 year olds to compete on their own and the entire thing might have to be scrapped because of it.
Didn’t that have more to do with the Thompson twins being in overtime elite and less about ignite?
I’m not gonna lie, I’ve been really surprised by the struggles of the ignite team. I figured the top prospects would come in and dominate a bunch of 2nd rounders and undrafted guys. Especially cuz I’ve seen Deuce McBride and Jacob Toppin drop 40 point games in westchester and Deuce is a 10 man at best.
At worst I’d would have expected to be competitive every night like the overmatched college teams of freshmen but this squad gets run off the floor every night. Guess it’s easy to forget how those young teams rarely win in college and expecting them to win against semi pros was overly optimistic. I think they’ll try to imagine it before they get rid of it but there needs to be some drastic changes cuz it’s not really working.
clyde21 wrote:jvsimonetti0514 wrote:Braggins wrote:I think the GLeague has the potential to be the best development path for elite recruits if done right. I hope they don't scrap the idea all together and instead look for a better way to do it.
Slightly related, but I like how the narrative about the GLeague (as it relates to the draft) last year was that the GLeague was too easy and you cant trust any numbers the Ignite guys put up there, but now a year later we've fully come around to people admitting that actually the GLeague is too difficult for 18/19 year olds to compete on their own and the entire thing might have to be scrapped because of it.
Didn’t that have more to do with the Thompson twins being in overtime elite and less about ignite?
I’m not gonna lie, I’ve been really surprised by the struggles of the ignite team. I figured the top prospects would come in and dominate a bunch of 2nd rounders and undrafted guys. Especially cuz I’ve seen Deuce McBride and Jacob Toppin drop 40 point games in westchester and Deuce is a 10 man at best.
At worst I’d would have expected to be competitive every night like the overmatched college teams of freshmen but this squad gets run off the floor every night. Guess it’s easy to forget how those young teams rarely win in college and expecting them to win against semi pros was overly optimistic. I think they’ll try to imagine it before they get rid of it but there needs to be some drastic changes cuz it’s not really working.
18 and 19 year olds will never dominate 24 and 25 year olds no matter how good they are and how "fringe" the 25 year olds are. those guys they are playing against were all great college players and have at some point played in real professional basketball at the highest levels.
jvsimonetti0514 wrote:clyde21 wrote:jvsimonetti0514 wrote:
Didn’t that have more to do with the Thompson twins being in overtime elite and less about ignite?
I’m not gonna lie, I’ve been really surprised by the struggles of the ignite team. I figured the top prospects would come in and dominate a bunch of 2nd rounders and undrafted guys. Especially cuz I’ve seen Deuce McBride and Jacob Toppin drop 40 point games in westchester and Deuce is a 10 man at best.
At worst I’d would have expected to be competitive every night like the overmatched college teams of freshmen but this squad gets run off the floor every night. Guess it’s easy to forget how those young teams rarely win in college and expecting them to win against semi pros was overly optimistic. I think they’ll try to imagine it before they get rid of it but there needs to be some drastic changes cuz it’s not really working.
18 and 19 year olds will never dominate 24 and 25 year olds no matter how good they are and how "fringe" the 25 year olds are. those guys they are playing against were all great college players and have at some point played in real professional basketball at the highest levels.
Oh yeah, I definitely had unreasonable expectations from the team when it started. It seems like the NBA, or at least silver is pretty surprised by the lack of success as well. So me being caught off guard by it isn’t completely unfounded.
Sioux Falls is the best g league team this year and they’re being lead by Alondes Williams and Josh Christopher. Both of whom were both guys I liked coming out of the draft but neither of them I would consider college stars. Even with them being like 5 years older than the g league guys, I figured they’d hang a little bit better than they have.
MemphisX wrote:The G League has more older players with lots of NBA experience. No way a team with 4-6 teenagers is supposed to be good in that environment.
