Domejandro wrote:Jedzz wrote:Domejandro wrote: LaMelo Ball has MASSIVE flaws, but if there was not the background noise of his father existing, basketball fans would be far less ridiculous with their takes on him.
Because he would be an undrafted project and people wouldn't have to describe how sickoning it is to risk a #1 overall on such a project? To imagine having to pay 5 to 10 a year and meanwhile your team feels they have to play him some where between 25 minutes to Starting just to maintain that draft value at least fictionally for future trade options. And if he's just an average producer people will claim an extension must be maxed because of all the fake selling of him over the rookie years. Imagine all this for a player you have to reteach every skill to if we are to believe the people that say he's had no basketball training. And that's if you believe he's had no basketball training while being part of the Ball family with a father pushing his kids' futures this hard for the NBA game.
If only this was baseball and the Wolves could have signed him to a futures deal the day after he scored 90 points in a highschool game. But this is the NBA where you tank seasons entirely to earn chances for the #1. And this is the risky payoff?
Yes, professional General Managers are overhyping LaMelo Ball because they are too stupid to detach a name from a player.
Beyond parody, actually no point discussing the Draft if people buy into this.
To be honest I'm pretty much done talking about this stinkin draft business. it's been a sham for years, maybe always, preloaded with phony hype for years. Everyone knows each team's GM is feeding smoke and mirrors out for their own benefit. Yet still, we have everyone eating up every little report that was fed to "sports journalists". I really feel as though this year getting the #1 overall is going to cause more harm than good to this team that never got a chance to see what they had after the trade deadline. It's going to cause havoc in this roster and they didn't need it.
I look at two recent undrafted players and a rookie 13th pick of the heat that were forceful pieces of a playoff juggernaut and finals team, not to mention being led by a former #30 pick, and it all just confirms that this whole draft process is a big joke, along with 75% of the player evaluations, fictional values and rankings going into it. So why should I believe everyone that is so addament about the players hyped in this one.
to the undrafted bin!