re: Pat Forde on Nerlens Noel and the One and Done System...

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Pat is reaching. It happens everywhere, and while it's unfortunate, it's a part of the rules. I like the one and done rule. Why should NBA teams have to only rely on high school footage where most premier athletes are at a huge advantage to judge a player?

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you understand that no one is required to draft him, right? if a team doesn't feel comfortable drafting him or any high school player based on the film available to them, then they don't need to draft the player.

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Did he write the same kind of article about Marcus Lattimore? How about college baseball players that go through Tommy John surgery and it messes their career up?

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I believe that the concerns about physicallity and if the body is ready for the nfl after highschool (or one or two years after) are a legitmate concern to prevent kids from jumping to the nfl too soon.

As for baseball, well going to college is a choice for baseball, you can go straight from middle school if you were good enough. So the college baseball analogy holds no water. Like baseball, i do not think there is a physicallity disparity to justify keeping a kid from going straight to the NBA.