You can develop your game a lot more playing full time in the G-league or Europe than you can going to grad school and playing in the Big XII. As much as I wish he had come to ISU for a year, I think he made the right decision.
AJ Green Leaves the Portal - Staying in Draft
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Just baffled at some of the guys that decided to return who would have been projected higher than AJ.
I get having pro aspirations but it just feels like those aspirations have to be over seas at this point.
He’ll get hooked up on a summer league team for sure but I’m not sure it’ll go further than that.
I get having pro aspirations but it just feels like those aspirations have to be over seas at this point.
He’ll get hooked up on a summer league team for sure but I’m not sure it’ll go further than that.
When I was 7 all the girls in my class wanted to be marine biologists and the boys wanted to be professional athletes. This isn't one of those " you can do anything if you put your mind to it" deals. The NBA is extremely elite and he made a horrible decision imo.
Go to an Iowa Wolves game sometime, the athleticism and size is off the charts and most of them will never sniff an NBA locker room. It's a completely different level than Division 1 basketball.
Kid is an academic All American that has done his complete and total due diligence. We have no idea what the NBA people have told him and we know that he possesses elite shooting ability.
I just can't imagine that he's doing this without knowing there's something in the pipeline for him. He's way too smart for that.
OMG you're insufferable.
The backup plan is to get the best scoring guard available, unless there isn't anyone that is very good left, and then bank the scholarship for 2023. It was a high risk, high reward situation from the outset. Green taking so long to make a move probably took away some of the backup plans.
Don't worry, he's done with college basketball.
Oh yeah.You forgot the "Too Soon?" tagline.
I didn't think it was necessary.
We will survive. We Are Cyclones! Next man up.
The funny thing is you are a rec league hero. If he thinks he can make it, give it a go.
He always looks like a ******* fool.
He knows absolutely jack ****.
Can’t be too upset over something we never had in the first place.
It does suck if there aren’t contingency plans and we’re sort of “stuck” but also I’d like to think our staff was smart enough to know this could happen.
Still, it’s hard to tell a transfer recruit, “hey we like you but only enough if this other SG goes pro so hang around and wait to see if he does by June 1st. K thx”
It does suck if there aren’t contingency plans and we’re sort of “stuck” but also I’d like to think our staff was smart enough to know this could happen.
Still, it’s hard to tell a transfer recruit, “hey we like you but only enough if this other SG goes pro so hang around and wait to see if he does by June 1st. K thx”
I don’t. I think he’s putting a huge amount of trust in what Milwaukee has been telling him. I hope it works out for him. I really do. But guys like him are a dime a dozen in the NBA.
This is a bad take. Grill could not create his own shot. Green absolutely could.
He'll probably never sniff the NBA. If by chance he does, good on him.
We at ISU will be ok. These so called insiders are ******* ******** and don't know ****.
Even though I have thought multiple times about buying premium, I refuse because the so called experts don't know jack ******* ****.
We at ISU will be ok. These so called insiders are ******* ******** and don't know ****.
Even though I have thought multiple times about buying premium, I refuse because the so called experts don't know jack ******* ****.
I know nothing about Green, but Grill is strictly a catch and shoot guy. Someone suggested him at point and I just don’t think his handle is good enough for that at all.
And if you look at his splits Grill was absolutely brutal shooting in Hilton for some reason too. His best games last year were mostly on the road.
Is that where all the confidence here came from, the premium people in the know?
