Most times another year of play in CBB hurts your draft stock, as play can only hurt not help.
Didn’t hurt Edey.
That doesn't make sense. Plenty of players have played another year and moved up in the draft.
You either play better and improve your draft status in your last year, or you don't. SIze doesn't have anything to do with it.
Pre-NIL I would agree with you but I don't think that is the case anymore and it sure seems like more the norm (players returning/going to another school) than the other way around.
Sure size does. If I'm a GM/NBA and have a 7-footer or a 5'11" guard with the same level of play I'm taking the big guy.
It's gone beyond that. None of these guys will ever want for a job/career/paycheck after graduation/they leave school. That was part and parcel before NIL, now it's been amped up to steroidal portions.
After Edey’s Junior season, the consensus was that he was not a fit for the modern NBA game as a traditional college big. This was despite him being 7’5”. He changed the narrative proving that it is possible to raise your stock by returning to college for your junior year.
Late second round isn't guaranteed contracts so he could also make 0 dollars. That's why 1st round is such a delineation.
That's usually only for the guys projected to go in like the top 15. Even then it doesn't always hurt them to return.
Just need 3 years of service for minimum pension. 10 years gets ya $215k:
It depends. A team in the 2nd round could guarantee him a spot and a contract that's better than a late first rounder.
Teams can offer guaranteed contracts. TJDs was a multi-year deal with a team option for a 4th year. It was 4yrs/7.6M. Bronny James signed a contract for 4yrs/7.9M. Chris Livingston who was taken right after TJD, signed a 4yr/7.6M contract. Soo it's about 2M per year. Obviously he could push for more depending on his workouts and how much a team likes him.
Not really. Again, not sure how many of you actually watch the NBA on a regular basis.
I mean we all know why he got drafted. By that 7.6-8M like area seems to be what Smith would probably get. He could probably push to 8.5-9M over 4 though. Tyler Kolek was the #34 pick and signed a 4yr/9M deal.Bad example.
Yeah, I can't help but think any money he got came off Daddy's haul ("Sign Bronny to X$ and I'll only ask for X$")
In the same way, everyone saw Braden struggle against long athletic guys. Too many wide, looping passes to get around long arms. And leaving his feet to get maximum distance away from defenders to get the pass off. (no)
You don’t think a guy who shoots just about 40% from 3 in his career is consistent enough? Or his midrange isn’t good? Did you watch him this year? What about a kid who was in the 98th percentile shooting out of the pick and roll with an NBA player as the screener when Braden was a sophomore?
Agree with a lot of what you said especially about finishing at the rim. That's definitely a concern. I think he gets drafted next year assuming he improves from this year. He's going to have too good of a resume for someone not to take him.
Sounds like the things that were said before his coming to Purdue and all he did with that doubt was turn himself into a 1st team All American and a guy that might go down as the leading assist guy in NCAA history.
I think no team is giving him a first round pick but I don't think that equates to him not having an NBA future. TJ McConnell exists.
See TJ McConnel. In todays NBA the rim protector might be out at the 3 line guarding your center there. I'm always surprised at how many shots TJ gets in the paint and how many of them end up uncontested.
If I am a team like Boston or Denver, I am drafting him. Especially Boston. He'd be wide open a lot.
that was not the issue. The question was does coming back and playing better another season up your draft chances. How does that get to comparing drafting a 5'11" guy vs 7'er?
