sunny wrote:I am involved with college basketball much more than the nba. As a result, I follow a ton of high school recruiting. And I can say that there are tons of players who are ranked without being scouted properly and a result, are placed way out of order. Rivals charges people lots of money for what is most of the time, **** information and poorly scouted rankings. .net is just a few guys opinion on basketball prospects and advertised as being such. Additionally, they provide an infrastructure for fans to create their own mocks with a very active forum.
What about ESPN and Scout? Remember, college ball is different than highschool, most of the players are "pre scouted" before they goto college. Highschool is were players experience the biggest changes since kids are going through puberty, and they have to evaluate thousands of kids to find the ones they rank. The high school rankings are the first rankings, the first evaluations, the first steps. College ball rankings and knowledge is based on highschool more or less.
I agree, they are just NBA fans hence why I said take it with a grain of salt. I'd still take a draft express or ESPN mock draft anyday. What makes it any different if we posted this draft thread in the Raptor forum online and called it nbadraft.ca?? We would have the majority of people with some knowledge, some experts and some people who have no clue what they are talking about. But it's ok for them to analyse and rank prospecs because they are fans.
I'm just saying a fan site has 0 credibility to me, just as much as taking one guys mock draft here over draft express etc.
