elchengue20 wrote:And how he forgot how to shoot? Kid has some serious issues between his ears, its not difficult to see.HotelVitale wrote:elchengue20 wrote: Sure, maybe in high schooll or college, but in the NBA level he doesnt have any natural gift that makes him special. He doesnt have good size. Also he isnt a natural point guard/playmaker/passer or shooter. There is a reason he dropped in the Draft. The key is hes improving day by day by working hard. Also you can see he isnt afraid, he wants to be great and take the challenge. Hes the opposite of guys like Fultz or Simmoms who have all the talent in the world but serious issues with their personalitys.
You had me until Fultz--Fultz has a terrific attitude and has always worked his tail off all the time. His issues is that his status as a top pick was premised on him being an awesome pull-up shooter--that's what he was in college, 100% legit 3-level scorer--and then he mysteriously lost the ability to shoot from beyond 10 feet. Hence he lost 2 of those 3 levels. Without a reliable shot--let alone the great one he had at UW--he never had the talent to be a top pick. Would have been maybe a mid-2nd rounder, hustle guy with great size for a PG and lots of potential in the pn'r.
He also wasn't a good shooter in HS so it's not like his whole game collapsed suddenly. I think it's more true that what we saw in college wasn't the real Fultz, just a weird couple of months where he was drilling shots left and right.
Either way, saying a player has mental issues to account for everything that goes wrong is dumb. You've probably watched enough draft picks over the years to know that developing in the NBA isn't as simple as 'work hard and you will be great'--almost all of these guys work like crazy and literally do almost nothing else with their time, and at least 3/4 of 1st rounders fail to live up to expectations. It takes a certain type of special natural talent to be able to learn new skills and actually apply them in games, we should be giving people props for doing that rather than expecting it (and saying their 'soft' when they don't).