CobraCommander wrote:I respect a few of you posters (you CCJ Nat etc) but the thing is I played and went through High level AAU and D1 then D2 ball plus watching family now play high level AAU and there are guys like him- size plus they can do all the basketball “things” but don’t have the feel for the game. You can just see it- I’m not saying isnt skilled- I am saying he has the size, skill, athletic ability but doesn’t know how to play basketball. How do you learn how to hoop sitting on the bench with an NBA team? His stats even in Germany are not good - he is effectively a project there. Bonga is the opposite of Neto or even pat Beverly- Bonga has all the gifts....maybe he should be playing in euro league or g league so he can learn how to use his tools vs watching people play...
Well, this is a different matter. You're making a judgment based on your personal experience, legit personal experience. Sort of like the judgment a scout is asked to make.
There's no basis for me to argue against your POV. Only a person with the same kind of experiences, the same range of experiences, could do that.
Of course, scouts are judged on how well they make judgments of this kind. But, they aren't judged on the correctness/incorrectness of a single such judgment -- if they were, the turnover would be awfully high!
Instead, they're judged on a body of work, while at the same time it's expected, & therefore accepted, that they'll be wrong sometimes.
I'd be willing to bet that you think that Rui was better than Bonga last year (when Rui was a rookie & Bonga, though younger, was in his 2d year). & -- although we'd never be able to come to agreement on the subject here -- that is the kind of context where the "scout" judgment comes to grief. Bonga was better by far.
Similarly, as we saw in the 2019 draft, in general scouts thought Rui was better than his teammate, Mr. Unnamable. Those same scouts thought Cam Reddish was better than Mr. U. Ditto P.J. Washington.
But, of course, the opposite is true. Mr. U is way better than any of those guys. & the way you see it is not by looking at his "feel for the game." (Not that you are questioning that in his case). You see it by looking at the numbers. In college & -- b/c those numbers didn't lie -- the NBA.
I've gone on too long. &, of course, you may still be right about Isaac Bonga!
For me, it'd be worth the $2m for the chance that you aren't right. I'd pick up his option.
