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538Sports on Simmons: "even steph curry ended his career in the NIT, after all"
Posted on 3/2/16 at 1:01 pm
Posted on 3/2/16 at 1:01 pm
elite prospects almost never miss the tourney. Steph Curry, Chris Bosh and other historical comps to Simmons.
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The crew of prospects Simmons will join if LSU fails to make the tournament isn’t exactly bad — even Steph Curry ended his Davidson career in the NIT, after all. (Granted, Davidson in the Southern Conference and LSU in the Southeastern Conference are apples and oranges; perhaps a better comp for Simmons is Chris Bosh, who couldn’t elevate Georgia Tech into the tournament out of the ACC in 2002-03.) But the distribution of basketball talent is steep. Top draft picks are, on average, so much better than their peers that a No. 1-ranked prospect should probably be held to a higher standard than the rest of the top five.
And, sure enough, in the 15 years before Simmons only one No. 1 prospect was on a team that missed the NCAA Tournament: Nerlens Noel, in 2012-13. The other 92 percent of No. 1s at least got to the round of 64, and even Noel’s case comes with a huge asterisk. Before Noel was lost for the season with a knee injury, his Kentucky team was on the bubble at 17-6, but improving; afterward, the Wildcats closed out the season 4-5 and stamped a nonrefundable ticket to the NIT.
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This post was edited on 3/2/16 at 1:31 pm
Posted on 3/2/16 at 1:03 pm to LSU Fan 90812
How consoling for lsu
Posted on 3/2/16 at 1:11 pm to LSU Fan 90812
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"even steph curry ended his career in the NIT, after all"
After he made an Elite 8 and was a buzzer beater short of going to a Final 4
Posted on 3/2/16 at 1:14 pm to LSU Fan 90812
Not really a good comparison considering they were in a one bid league and Steph Curry was never thought to be the surefire #1 pick.
Posted on 3/2/16 at 1:19 pm to LSU Fan 90812
What a terrible comparison.
Posted on 3/2/16 at 1:23 pm to LSU Fan 90812
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: "even steph curry ended his career in the NIT, after all"
Ben needs to be slapped back to reality.
Posted on 3/2/16 at 1:42 pm to LSU Fan 90812
Yeah Steph wasn't the same prospect Ben is. And I'm sure the talent around him at DAVIDSON was top notch
Posted on 3/2/16 at 1:47 pm to LSU Fan 90812
I don't understand the point of this thread. Am I supposed to feel better about this cluster frick of a season?
Posted on 3/2/16 at 4:50 pm to LSU Fan 90812
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538Sports
Is this like the Walmart brand of 247Sports?
Posted on 3/2/16 at 6:03 pm to LSU Fan 90812
Still hurts his only year at LSU we miss the tourney
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