I don't get the Andrew Wiggins hype...

[-InFeRnO-]

those players will probably do well because they picked a better destination known for creating high quality draft picks.
yet,...
kansas since getting rid of that soft scourge of a coach who used the legacy of unc to ramp up.
has shown they know what to do to produce champions and high quality players that execute.
even if they have a low ceiling talent level wise.
so, i look to wiggins to be able to be the top guy.
if he is not the top guy,..
it will hurt him, a lot.
especially considering he is a technically a euro coming from canada.
yet, real talk...
he does not play like no fukking euro or a foreign player unfamiliar with us bball.

so hopefully he could turn out.
shyt,.....anything could happen,...
just like with pj iii and them hiding his knee injury for two years at baylor.


art barr

Breh

 

[I.V.]

 

[smARTmouf]

He's twitchy as hell. How much stronger will he become?...I'm betting his work ethic is elite. He'll be fine. His upside is crazy taking those things into account.

 

[god shamgod]

No he's not

Jahlil Okafor and Tyus Jones, Duke’s top two recruiting priorities, will announce their decision Friday at 4 p.m. EST at their respective high schools.

Okafor, the No. 1 overall recruit for the class of 2014, is a 6-foot-10, 265-pound center from Chicago Whitney Young High. Jones, the No. 4 overall recruit and top point guard, stands 6-foot-1 and hails from Minnesota’s Apple Valley High. Jones has been the only point guard Duke has targeted in the last two years.

The two, who became fast friends thanks to the AAU circuit and USA Basketball, have pledged to play together in college for years, calling themselves a package deal. There hasn’t been such a deal with non-related recuits since Greg Oden and Mike Conley chose Ohio State together in 2006, but they were from the same high school. It is believed that Jones and Okafor would be the first long-distance package deal in college basketball history.

For more on Jones and Okafor and their pledge to play together,

 

[Buckeye Fever]

fukk dem nikkaz, mane. I wanted Okafor

 

[Primordial]

Breh

Dualities (euro/canada)

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

Once his body fills out, I can see him being another Dominique Wilkins.



Not looking so good right now, though

 

[I.V.]

Once his body fills out, I can see him being another Dominique Wilkins.



Not looking so good right now, though

You should watch some games.

 

[muzikfrk75]

6 points today

 

[Reverend Jesse Jackson]

6 points today

Ben Mclemore 2.0

 

[DoubleClutch]

Perry Ellis is better than Wiggins right now and gets NO hype at all. The only reason I remember his name is because the clothing company

On a side note.... Wiggins clearly should've went to a different school to feed the hype. Kansas has too much talent. Wiggins doesn't fit and looks lost out there sometimes. Reminds me of Perry Jones III at Baylor. He's not aggressive enough. The games I've seen they always got him in the post but isn't he supposed to be a 2 guard.

Plus other KU players could care less about the media calling Wiggins the next Lebron. They're trying to get to the NBA themselves. If they don't need Wiggins to win they ain't passing to him

 

[7oclock]

I see a black gazelle running up and down the court , but not much skill

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Perry Ellis is better than Wiggins right now and gets NO hype at all. The only reason I remember his name is because the clothing company

On a side note.... Wiggins clearly should've went to a different school to feed the hype. Kansas has too much talent. Wiggins doesn't fit and looks lost out there sometimes. Reminds me of Perry Jones III at Baylor. He's not aggressive enough. The games I've seen they always got him in the post but isn't he supposed to be a 2 guard.

Plus other KU players could care less about the media calling Wiggins the next Lebron. They're trying to get to the NBA themselves. If they don't need Wiggins to win they ain't passing to him

talent stands out regardless. just wait and see how much he improves over the course of the season, that is the real test.

 

[NatiboyB]

No. He was good enough. The coaches just wanted to bring him along slowly. Remember he was the first non-big man to make the jump to the NBA. No one knew what your supposed to do with someone that young. Plus the Lakers were really good so they could afford to bring him slowly.

Remember in his second year he started the all-star game while he was coming off the bench for his own team. And it wasn't like he wasn't good enough to start for the Lakers. Before the all-star game he was the leading bench scorer in the NBA scoring something like 17ppg in 26 minutes. He was being promoted against Michael Jordan whenever they played the Bulls and during the all-star game. Don't get it twisted. Kobe at 18-19 was good enough to be a SUPERSTAR. He just didn't get the chance cause the Lakers decided the bring him up slowly.

He wasn't even supposed to start his 3rd season in 1999. The Lakers were going to start Rick Fox alongside Eddie Jones, but then Rick Fox got injured at the start of the season and Kobe never looked back. He was so good that the Lakers ended up trading Eddie Jones (an all-star at the time). They also ended up trading Nick Van Exel (another all-star) to give Kobe the ball more.

If Kobe came out in 03 with LeBron and was on some bad team like the Cavs, he would've been a starter day 1 and would've been scoring 20-25ppg. His game was NBA ready. His body just wasn't what it grew to be. That is why I say his fundamentals and skills were always there. Its just that he didn't have the NBA ready body that LeBron had. That is the only real difference between the two. And the fact LeBron came after Kobe. After the success that Kobe/T-Mac/KG had, more teams were willing to take risks on high school player. If those guys didn't pan out, guys like LeBron would've had a difference experience.

I'm in my memory but no he wasn't better then Eddie jones or Cedric Ceballos and he didn't start the Allstar game as a reserve.
http://m.espn.go.com/nba/playerstats?playerId=110

In reality they brought Kobe around very slowly he took off in his 3rd year and 4th years was a star in his 5th...

Going by this case Wiggins and Parker aren't really going to be measured by their rookie year production but the production they are expected to have after there rookie deals are done.

 

[Reverend Jesse Jackson]

talent stands out regardless. just wait and see how much he improves over the course of the season, that is the real test.

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