I enjoy the discussion, but all is going to end up ok for THT IMHO.. Gets to live in LA and play with Lebron and either make 75k-385k in the G league as a two-way, or since LA needs players, get a rookie minimum deal for 800k.
Did you actually watch the games this year? Anybody could have predicted this. You think guys that get benched in their tourney game because they were playing so poorly end up being first round picks on a regular basis?
We need to stop with this. Unless you know the future, and if you do please fill me in on the Powerball, we cannot know what they should have done. We only know what was done.
Great landing spot for him. LeBron and Klutch are running that organization
"We cannot know for sure the results of alternative decisions, therefore we have to accept what actually happened as the best possible outcome" is not intellectually defensible. It is quite literally the definition of Panglossian, if you read your Candide.
It was not like seeing THT go in the second and Lindell not at all was all that unpredictable. Most of the decent mocks lately had Talen slipping like that, and few ever had LW.
The "upside risk" of playing themselves into the first-round and the lottery is a substantial amount of money and "prestige" -- teams invest more and give more chances to their high draft picks than their low ones, and being marked as a "former #12" or whatever will give you more chances/bites at the apple (each of them lucrative) in the NBA than just being a guy in the back of the second-round or an undrafted free agent. I know Ivy League Ph.D.s who are complete idiots who get chance after chance because of that high profile personal branding.
The draft works much the same way.
Sorry, but if you told me a few months ago that Horton-Tucker would go in the mid-second and Lindell not at all, I would have told them both they were better back coming back to Ames and playing themselves into a better starting point for their professional careers. Sometimes where you start and the first chance you get is everything that matters.
I would have told them, do whatever you want because it is your career and if you want to go get paid, then do it. Give them all the information and risk on each decision and let them choose.
I would have told them, do whatever you want because it is your career and if you want to go get paid, then do it. Give them all the information and risk on each decision and let them choose.
I would imagine Rich Paul and Klutch Sports will easily be able to convince the Lakers to pay THT more than a minimum salary. How much more? Not a lot. But not minimum either.I enjoy the discussion, but all is going to end up ok for THT IMHO.. Gets to live in LA and play with Lebron and either make 75k-385k in the G league as a two-way, or since LA needs players, get a rookie minimum deal for 800k.
I agree completely that Talen and Lindell should have done what they wanted.
I just think their "expected return" in terms of $$$ and opportunities to play in the NBA (so about the same things) is much higher if they can end up in the first-round or the lottery. I know leaving money on the table is hard, but their career prospects in the U.S. as a mid-2nd and UDFA are pretty meager versus what they might have played up to.
I would imagine Rich Paul and Klutch Sports will easily be able to convince the Lakers to pay THT more than a minimum salary. How much more? Not a lot. But not minimum either.
Lakers currently trying to dump both of their second round picks from 2018, not sure how that applies to THT but he may want to hold off on buying a home in LA.
Nobody, myself included, thought Wigginton was going to get drafted this year.
A LOT of people, I'm assuming who have a lot more basketball knowledge than me, had THT in the first round until like last week. Don't rewrite history.
What can you afford on 800k in LA? A studio over a bowling alley?I enjoy the discussion, but all is going to end up ok for THT IMHO.. Gets to live in LA and play with Lebron and either make 75k-385k in the G league as a two-way, or since LA needs players, get a rookie minimum deal for 800k.
Wigginton should have gone after his freshman year. I don't think that's even debatable at this point.
Did you actually watch the games this year? Anybody could have predicted this. You think guys that get benched in their tourney game because they were playing so poorly end up being first round picks on a regular basis?
I enjoy the discussion, but all is going to end up ok for THT IMHO.. Gets to live in LA and play with Lebron and either make 75k-385k in the G league as a two-way, or since LA needs players, get a rookie minimum deal for 800k.
And you probably come from a place of privilege. So what you would do is not relevant.
It’s harder to make it when drafted in the second round but it does happen. Hell Iowa State has two guys that managed it off the top of my head. Hornacek 35 years ago did it and had a very successful career. Monte is doing it right now.
Selfishly I wish THT and Wiggs would have stayed. Only because it is fun to have 4 year guys.
Not really. If you have the slightest hint of basketball knowledge it was obvious THT wasn't first round talent and Lindell wouldn't be getting drafted.
Not complaining though. I for one will be happy to watch a more team oriented brand of basketball with their departures.
The Lakers will figure out quickly that he is too slow to guard on the 2 or 3 perimeter and too small to guard the 4 or 5 inside in the NBA. In college he certainly showed he could do both. THT better hope he grows another 3 to 5 inches if he ever wants to be in the league for extended period of time. Fortunately for him, he is young and that may actually happen. But for now, he has G league written all over him. He will not make the opening day roster for the Lakers or any other team.