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re: Trent Johnson on Jeremy Lin
Posted on 2/17/12 at 8:38 pm to Bubba Hotep
Posted on 2/17/12 at 8:38 pm to Bubba Hotep
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This is the biggest non-story. There are players much better than Lin that go unrecruited or barely recruited every year. The NBA and NFL are full of them.
What???????????? You are on crack
Posted on 2/18/12 at 12:19 am to LSUpsychWARD
While the list isn't long finding similar situations in basketball isn't hard. Bubba's example of Stephen Curry should not be glossed over. Curry's skill set and early success in college indicate that he warranted higher consideration than three offers.
The list must also include an undersized center that went on to be a four time defensive player of the year named Ben Wallace, who only played Division II ball due to a recommendation by Charles Oakley.
Now granted, Lin did want Stanford. And while hindsight is 20/20, most schools would choose (did choose) the way Stanford did: they chose a 6-4, 200 lb. point with the pedigree of playing at a high level in Chicago over a guard who a Harvard assistant felt was a Division III player until further evaluation. The lesson for Lin is that understanding some things take more nuanced analysis (perhaps something more than "they're lookn at the black athletes dude". . .just check the number of foreign born players drafted early in the 1st round over the last few years as NBA teams try to find the next Dirk or Pau. What most scouts look for is something they have seen before. . .that's usually the big, strong, and fast).
What makes these discussions veiled as critiques of Trent's recruiting confusing to me is has anyone looked at his 2006 (Lin's year) Stanford class? It only had three NBA starters in it.
The list must also include an undersized center that went on to be a four time defensive player of the year named Ben Wallace, who only played Division II ball due to a recommendation by Charles Oakley.
Now granted, Lin did want Stanford. And while hindsight is 20/20, most schools would choose (did choose) the way Stanford did: they chose a 6-4, 200 lb. point with the pedigree of playing at a high level in Chicago over a guard who a Harvard assistant felt was a Division III player until further evaluation. The lesson for Lin is that understanding some things take more nuanced analysis (perhaps something more than "they're lookn at the black athletes dude". . .just check the number of foreign born players drafted early in the 1st round over the last few years as NBA teams try to find the next Dirk or Pau. What most scouts look for is something they have seen before. . .that's usually the big, strong, and fast).
What makes these discussions veiled as critiques of Trent's recruiting confusing to me is has anyone looked at his 2006 (Lin's year) Stanford class? It only had three NBA starters in it.
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