MemphisX wrote:FarBeyondDriven wrote:BlazersBroncos wrote:Kids get taken all the time w/o NBA ready bodies. Furphy would be a kid you draft for a few years down the road, not a immediate rotation piece.
He is still a 6'8 true SF with a nice jumper and + motor. Everything about him is late blooming - he began to flash late in HS, he was given a scholarship to KU near the deadline, he didnt crack the rotation until halfway through the year and he isnt developed physically. This was never a kid you draft to play big minutes right off the jump.
He is still a clear R1 talent.
agree about his talent but I don't think he'd go in round 1 and feel like he'd be better served staying, Kansas becomes his team next season and he can hit the weights and work on his game and come out and definitely be a 1st rounder next year. Sure, he can work on his game in the G-league but I feel like those guys almost never get called up and develop into NBA starters. Once teams don't see them as NBA players it kinda sticks. Maybe I'm wrong.
The problem with this type of thinking is that he is not a "his team" kind of guy, especially at the next level. So there will be zero benefit to him being "the man" on a unknown Kansas team next season.
disagree. They're so buried and such afterthoughts that people pigeon-hole them into not being capable of more. Just because they'll be role players at the next level doesn't mean they shouldn't be good enough to show their the man in college. The majority of role players in the NBA were "the man" on their college teams. There are countless examples of guys like Furphy that are buried, return or transfer, and they become the man.
Recent examples being:
Hunter Sallis was a 5 star recruit that was buried at Gonzaga for two years. He goes to Wake Forrest where he's the man
Kel'el Ware is a 5 star recruit, gets buried at Oregon. Transfers to Indiana to become the man
Devin Carter transferred to Providence from South Caroline where he was buried to become the man
Adem Bona went from being buried to being the man at UCLA
Filipowski returned, put on muscle, had surgery on hips to increase his flexibility
I think there'll be more guys like this than people realize. Because of NIL it wouldn't surprise me if half the guys people have as first rounders return. If that happens then it'll become the weak draft class everyone has thought it was a year ago