Grayson Allen should've went pro after his sophmore year?

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

Don't get why he's Still on draft boards as a first rounder,at that .

He has potential. Should’ve never went to duke in the first place.

 

[Sauce Dab]

He has potential. Should’ve never went to duke in the first place.

Why not? Can't get much better than Duke and Frank Jackson had left too so dude was like

 

[funkee]

Coach K just took him out the starting lineup

Duke basketball: Mike Krzyzewski removes Trevon Duval from starting lineup vs. Georgia Tech

It's just HS ranking hype because honestly there's at least 30 other PGs in college better than him right now and the last 10 will never sniff the NBA

he deserved to be benched d/t his low IQ and frequent untimely turnovers game after game. He started off the year being so unselfish and passing so well with an incredible assist/TO ratio. I feel like whoever is in his inner circle outside of duke got in his ear and then he decided to try and be russell westbrook/derrick rose the last 15+ games. He can be great on the fastbreak or in an uptempo offense, but doesn't know how to run a team in the halfcourt. He can't make a good post pass to save his life. He continues to do the same dumb things game after game when he should've reeled himself in by now. It's likely he also got benched for retweeting his dunk against UNC immediately after we lost to them. He's since un-retweeted it. It's unfortunate that grayson has been a better PG than him most of the year, b/c this takes away grayson's ability and shooting off the ball. Same thing happened w/ frank jackson last year until late in the year.

He has potential. Should’ve never went to duke in the first place.

going to duke was fine, he was doing great the first 10 or so games. Overall, what hurt him (and grayson as well), was marvin reclassifying. The team was quite balanced and had already developed chemistry/identity before marvin reclassed late.

 

[CHERUB]

He'll be in lithuania with The Lavar Ball by next summer...

 

[funkee]

and back to the topic at hand, grayson will be another upperclassman steal late first (or early second if he falls) similar to kuzma and brogdon

 

[RoGethoes]

He has potential. Should’ve never went to duke in the first place.

Yea I think he would've developed better at Kentucky.The system and coaching style fit him better imo

 

[trick]

DX just posted an article about Allen's NBA outlook, and this is part of what they wrote:

Givony: It's possible that Allen's draft stock will never be higher than it was after his first-team All-ACC and All-American sophomore season, as we haven't seen him have the breakthrough we've anticipated for two years now, but I'm not necessarily sure that means it was a mistake not to leave. Listening to what Allen had to say about his reasoning for coming back in 2016, it's hard to fault him for returning to school since he clearly wasn't ready mentally for the rigors of the NBA. It's also hard to knock an academic All-American for wanting to get his college degree, which he stated was a lifelong dream.

Looking back at guys whom Allen played with or against in high school, we're already seeing a number of then-highly touted recruits who are either out of the NBA (like Cliff Alexander, James Young, Diamond Stone, Stephen Zimmerman), close to being out of the NBA (Rashad Vaughn, Kevon Looney, Dakari Johnson) or on their last legs (Jahlil Okafor), even though they are all around the same age as Allen at 22.

With the NBA being as fickle as ever with young players, I do think that most non-lottery picks are better off coming into the league more physically and mentally ready to contribute. The roster churn we're seeing these days is significant, and teams are much less likely to waste spots on developing projects into eventual role players. Some of these guys will never get another shot, and spending your early 20s in the G League is a lot less glamorous than chasing NCAA titles at Duke.

So, I think more power to him. Unless he hates school, has injury concerns or is in desperate need of money, I would enjoy those charter flights, rockstar status on campus and every game being broadcasted on ESPN. This might be the best time of his life.

I'm not going to post the whole article (who the fukk wants to read 3000 words on Grayson Allen?), but the gist of it is all NBA teams could use a shooter, and he may be better as a bench piece in the NBA than in college basketball even though he'll always struggle on defense.

 

[JerseyBoy23]

That wouldn't be a bad thing imo he had a great career overseas.

You're right, I think he won a couple titles in Russia too.

 

[42 Monks]

and back to the topic at hand, grayson will be another upperclassman steal late first (or early second if he falls) similar to kuzma and brogdon

I got the same opinion on Grayson

he's really been sacrificing a lot trying to get the younger guys on the same page. i can definitely see him in the jeremy lin/brogdon role

 

[AITheAnswerAI]

It seems the vast majority of the time, when guys end up staying, they end up hurting themselves. Whether it's basketball or football.

Don't fall for this "Get cho degree" BS. It's all part of the con game.