Xatticus wrote:pepe1991 wrote:MartinsIzAfraud wrote:there's no convincing. Bol Bol will be out of the league after his rookie deal
Man i don't want to make it sound racist or anything... but look at career of his father.
10 years in nba 1 year in italy.
Career average 2,6 points a game in centers era.
7'6 guy who had some heavy african accent talking stories how he might be 50 years old, when he was 25. NBA kept him because it was great global PR.
NBA does the same with Boban Marjanovic or Taco Fall, they hold very little playing value, they never will, but they are attraction to fans and they are all very nice people, that's why they stick for long.
Only super tall players that actually had some playing value were Shawn Bradley and Ming. And fans and Bradley himself, embraced role of goofbomb cartoonish villain, most people hated him.
btw Bradley had accident i think today, and it seems like it will be really, really nasty one. hopefully first opinions are not correct ones.
Good lord.
Manute Bol was in the NBA because he was an elite rim protector.
Bol Bol was a McDonald's All-American. He was the number 4 prospect in his high school class. He got offers from everyone. He averaged 21 points, 10 rebounds, and 3 blocks in his brief stint in college on high scoring efficiency. To argue that he has no talent is absurd.
Oh come on man.
1983, goes to draft, gets draft 97th in 5th round. But nba red-flags draft selection.
Goes back to draft in 1985, isn't drafted in first round, instad drafted 31# ovearll.
He did block lot of shots, but tell me one tall guy in that era that didn't ? Virtually all players among top 10 palyers in BPG belong to same era. 1982- 1995.
Most of it is because handchacking allowed defenders to push players toward center of the paint, where there were no 3 defensive second rule, so center was camping to swat a shot. Since basketball was more physical, almost always it was center who was commiting foul and blocking player at once, but again, basketball wasn't officiated in a fashion it is today.
This still does not change a fact he was more of a attraction that production.
He never averaged more than 3,9 ppg.
He was starter for only 133 out of 620 games he played.
Last two years he didn't even collect 200 min combined.
Even in his memory, most people remember him , but don't remember somebody like Mark Eaton, who was literally -funcional version of Bol. Feending even more in my "attraction > production" orginal claim.
Eaton could actually score a bit, was even better shot blocker, was even allstar. But wasn't interesting to media as african tribal player that claimed he was 50 years old, had funny broken english, never got to sports illustated cover and didn't have pictures with Muggsey. Because, Eaton simply wasn't that interesting to media. Not tall enough? I guess.
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