mattg wrote:El Duderino wrote:JayMKE wrote:It's not a silly argument since Exum hasn't faced any competition, he's only played against players that he dominates physically. All those other guys have played against guys that can match up against them.
So by your logic then, if hypothetically high school players had been made eligible for last years draft, you wouldn't have taken either of Parker/Wiggins first overall because they had only faced inferior competition vs overmatched high school kids which they could dominate physically?
It's not even worth arguing, dude just hates exum because he's not American. Exum has been on the radar as a potential top 5 pick in this strong draft since 2012.
I don't think he hates Exum for being a foreign player. Instead, he's irrationally stuck on the kid having not played a year of college ball and on that alone disqualifying Exum as being worthy of being picked over Parker or Wiggins. That same type foolish rigid thinking allowed guys like Dirk, Garnett, Kobe, etc to get bypassed by to many teams.
Scouts and GM's get paid well to evaluate players regardless of the competition they've faced. The good ones can more often evaluate well which prospects will translate to the NBA whether they've played mostly again poor competition, in college at a mid-major, in college in a major conference, or foreign players who could be facing all different levels of competition. Only a weak willed and low skilled scout/GM would flat out disqualify a certain high level talent for any pick based on who that player mostly played against.
