clyde21 wrote:RCM88x wrote:clyde21 wrote:
we don't have a sample size to say it...your only sample i...Mudiay? we've seen wayyyy more people bust out of the NCAA than Mudiay lol
Has there ever been a player to go overseas and play that was actually a superstar player in the NBA? I can't think of any.
again...small sample size...it's too small to even make a point which is why you don't really make any sense here.
a high recruit college? Mudiay was the only one really...Terence Ferguson did the same thing too...both of them are at least functional NBA players. RJ Hampton and LaMelo Ball both just did it now following suit...
and again, you just had guys like Jalen Lecque, Anfernee Simons, Darius Bazley and Mitchell Robinson who either decided to reclassify and not play in the NCAA at all or sit out a year.
point being players are looking for more ways than ever NOT to play that year in the NCAA...but if your conclusion is that a player is more likely to succeed in the NBA if at goes to the NCAA...well that's completely unfounded.
I'm not saying they're more likely to succeed. I'm saying they're more likely to go to the NCAA because the extreme majority of great players in the NBA also did, and no great players in the NBA wen't overseas to play instead. Weather or not playing in either league effects their NBA prospects doesn't matter, nor does the sample size.
A 17 year old kid in highschool isn't going to think "well we have a statistically insignificant sample size of players who decided to play overseas instead of the NCAA so I really shouldn't base by decision on the success of said players who went overseas to play"...
They're going to think "man, 100k to play for some team in Poland for 7 months I've never heard might be fun, but I'd much rather go to Duke or Kentucky like Zion or Anthony Davis". The extreme majority of these kids don't think in terms of dollars, they aren't adults with rent, car payments, credit card debt.
Outside of the money, which compared to the NBA money is pretty marginal, there just isn't any other perceived advantage, especially when there hasn't really been any super successful person to do it yet. Perception is what matters here, these are teenagers picking where they want to play basketball for a year before hopping up to the NBA, not banks analyzing the credit rating of business applying for loans.
But like I said, this stuff is probably going to have no effect on the NBA, they're going to allow kids to come up right from HS before 2023 anyways.
