BoyzNTheHood wrote:paulbball wrote:BoyzNTheHood wrote:
Your article proved you wrong. He was granted a 6th year, but this is not his 6th year.
And he sat out a year, but was cleared. You don't play with heart issues so sitting out a year is completely reasonable whether or not it's a big issue or not. The fact that he was cleared shows that it's completely fine now.
And Thon Maker hasn't been "doing crap in the league", he hasn't been given any minutes which is understandable playing behind Monroe, Henson and Teletovic. You don't just throw a guy as raw as Thon to the NBA wolves and ask him to dominate. It's called development. It takes time. As for Thon's age, that still hasn't been proven. If you do an ounce of research you'd see that an NBA franchise took him 10th overall in the 2016 draft despite those "reports everywhere". If he was proven to be 23 you can bet he wouldn't be picked 10th overall.
6 year in college is 6 years of college. It doesn't matter if you sit on the bench recovering. You were in JUCO + college for 6 years.
Bucks likely did not know of the issues until after the draft. I can guarantee you that you have not seen any of the evidence pointing to Thon Maker's advanced age. Now, they are ignoring the issue as to not hurt their player's value. This is exactly what any rational actor would do in their situation.
You like to bring up the concept of development. How come a bonafide stud recruit is not even good enough to get more than 3 minutes a game? Busts happen all the time at all picks. You need to stop pretending that Thon is a guaranteed star. A 7 foot athletic, shot blocking phenom with unlimited potential dropping top #10 after being rated the #1/#2 high school player in his class, give me a break.
You guarantee me? Do I know you? My team was picking 9th, there was TONS of Thon Maker discussion in our draft threads so don't act like you know what I've researched. I saw everything up to those photo shopped high school photos you took as facts. It's not surprising to me that you speak this way though, because you talk about Thon as though you know more than a PROFESSIONAL NBA FRANCHISE did before they selected him. What a joke.
And please quote me where I said, or even implied, that Thon is a "guaranteed star". I said he hasn't done anything because he hasn't been given minutes and he's playing behind solid veterans. The Bucks are trying to make the playoffs. Throwing a raw 19 year old out there doesn't exactly help that cause (even though I don't expect you to understand why that is).
Just because Bucks is a professional team doesn't mean they know anything about players' age. Ilyasova and Yi jianlian are two previous players with age issues. The Bucks failed to do their due diligence twice before this. Both Illyasova and Yi have been proven to be age cheaters after being drafted.
This is becoming comical with you assuming that you know more about Thon Maker than I do. I was at the forefront of the Thon Maker research. Many of the sources that you read on RealGM and reddit were initially dug up and posted by me. I might have reviewed every single piece of news article on Thon Maker and his brother Matur Maker, his cousin Maker Maker, Daniel Mading, Matur Maker, Alir Alir, and more. I've digitally catalogued and index every reference to Thon and his relatives at Aranmore over the past decade. There is no doubt in my mind that Edmund Smith has committed fraud in order to market Thon as a NBA prospect, especially given how he has ruthlessly dumped and abandoned his previous prospects.
