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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
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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 1:21 pm to Pelican fan99
you guys need to learn how to read.
This post was edited on 3/2/16 at 1:31 pm
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 1:45 pm to SoFunnyItsNot
can someone and i mean anyone, please even read the paragraph posted let alone the entire super well written article, including the point of the article for frick's sake.
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 1:47 pm to LSU Fan 90812
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can someone and i mean anyone, please even read the paragraph posted let alone the entire super well written article, including the point of the article for frick's sake.
I think you've mistaken this board for starbucksdroppings.com. The audience you seek here does not exist, m8.
Posted on 3/2/16 at 1:50 pm to lsu2006
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I don't understand the point of this thread. Am I supposed to feel better about this cluster frick of a season?
the point of this thread is an analysis of elite prospects who didn't make the NCAA tournament with their teams. the focus of the article is an LSU player.
weirdly, the point of this thread isn't to make you feel anything at all. it, like most things in life, has nothing whatsoever to do with you. if you feel like getting perspective and knowledge about a player that is on the team of the university you either attend(ed) or support(ed), read it, take the information, and then move on with your day a more well rounded individual.
or wander around in a daze wondering why someone might have posted something on the internet expressly for creating a mood for a stranger he did not know existed. the universe works in strange ways.
This post was edited on 3/2/16 at 2:06 pm
Posted on 3/2/16 at 1:51 pm to PortCityTiger24
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The audience you seek here does not exist, m8.
you are a rare unicorn of a man amongst the masses, port.
Posted on 3/2/16 at 3:01 pm to LSU Fan 90812
LeBron James even missed the tournament.
Geeezzzzzz people, relax.
Geeezzzzzz people, relax.
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 4:52 pm to Sev09
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Is this like the Walmart brand of 247Sports?
or the ESPN funded website of analytics expert Nate Silver discussing analytics in both sport and politics. 538 being the number of electoral votes in the electoral college of course, that nate silver was the only one who famously predicted the outcome in the past election. sure.
This post was edited on 3/2/16 at 4:56 pm
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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