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Being injured for the better part of 1.5 seasons, and having a successful D-League campaign, then being unable to garner playing time isn't what I would call a failed experiment.
2005? I didn't know Ian was drafted THAT far back.
Being injured for the better part of 1.5 seasons, and having a successful D-League campaign, then being unable to garner playing time isn't what I would call a failed experiment.
Jim, you're SUCH a Maryland homer. One thing you need to understand is that if you're at a Major conference school, and you stay 4 years, that's a HUGE strike against you. As far as college performance, I have two words for you: Alfrederick Hughes.
As promised, I am watching the Maryland-Duke game. It is a close game, ya but I see nothing special out of Vasquez. He has the nice floater he uses to mask his lack of athletic ability but he is 3-9 from the field at this point.
And then he turns the ball over because of a high risk low reward baseline pass.
Did Vasquez just airball that 3 point attempt? What a joke.
He got blown by against this Duke guy but the Devils got blocked. No lateral quickness.
Here is the best part. Maryland is leading the game with Vasquez's ass on the bench.
Ok screw that, Vasquez comes back and botched some defensive rotations and got his ass owned because he couldn't fight over a screen. That number 3 Duke guy, Nolan Smith, just scored like 8 points in a row. He has 18 total. And Duke has the lead.
Vasquez hits a 3 after not fighting through a screen so he gets his ass burned for 3. Exchanging points.
Vasquez hits a runner. Maryland leads 67-65.
Maryland with a nice win over Duke. Vasquez sure can hit some hard shots and he is clutch. He has also quite good body co-ordination with his difficult shot.
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And we all know uraguay watches a lot of acc ballhe trained at the Spurs facility last year before deciding to go back to College...
Pass... all heart but I'd take Tempe's Fernandez 10 times ahead of him
Paul George, and no one is changing my mind otherwise, unless a lotto pick drops to us. First round anyhow.
vazquez is a fuccin beast
Dude just shat on Duke... tough shot at the end... seems like the real deal. No fkin way he'll slip to the spurs though
Is this years draft supposed to be a deep one? I hope so, im so glad to see the Spurs have a first round pick.
lol....
nice prediction, idiot
He outplayed Scheyer, he was the star in this game, every segment, almost every conversation was about him. As I said, he reminds me of Manu because not only his emotions, but of his spectacular plays, that for him seem the norm.
Yeah that guy at Wake Forrest who stayed 4 years from 93-97 turned out to be a bust in the NBA.
Yeah, like he was unexpected to outplay Scheyer. They pretty much played to a standstill until the last few minutes of the game. Vasquez was the highlight cause his team won.
There have been so many NBA players who have successful careers despite not being "athletic" and there are many, many more who could jump out the gym who never made it into the league or never found success. In my mind, good basketball skills/fundamentals, a strong compe ive spirit and team-oriented at ude are what I look for in a player. Of course if he's athletic to boot, so much the better.
Stop the ing presses! He held a guy who is shorter, slower, even less athletic than Vasquez in check!
I realize Maryland doesn't produce many good nba players (lol blake and dixon), but bloading your own chode over someone this average is funny to watch.
he was the star in this game
The he was. Maryland was playing their best basketball of the night while he was sitting on the bench.
Yes! Let's compare every college player who stays 4 years to Tim Duncan. I can't wait for Psycho T to start tearing up in Indiana.
Yeah that guy at Wake Forrest who stayed 4 years from 93-97 turned out to be a bust in the NBA.
You really are an idiot. You do not even get what people are saying. I was responding to exstatic's comment that it is a negative to stay 4 years, they simply reminded him that some players choose to stay in college because I want to, not because they won't get drafted. Vasquez was projected to be drafted last year, but he decided to stay at maryland and help them win an ACC championship, which if the win on Sat, they will.
He was the star, because evryone talks about him...you dumbass.
You really are an idiot. He's not going in the 1st round and probably the 2nd round either, well, because he's not a first couple of rounds talent. But you can keep using your "Yeah that guy from Wake who stayed 4 years sucks ass
And he wasn't the star, because Maryland played their best basketball without him...you dumbass.
Stanley Robinson.
It ain't 1997 anymore. The drafts are much thinner and worse now. The order of the day is "one and done" or at worst "two and through".Yeah that guy at Wake Forrest who stayed 4 years from 93-97 turned out to be a bust in the NBA.
There was a writer who had two stories linked here last year about how to translate Euro talent to the NBA and how to translate NCAA talent to the NBA.
The NCAA formula was fascinating and unexpected. Steals and Blocks in tandem were highly regarded, indicating a long wingspan and high athleticism, as was being an exceptional rebounder for your position. He projected his formula back 10 years and picked out players like Carlos Boozer, almost an afterthought type second rounder, and Milsap. One thing that I remember is that you got absolutely DINGED for staying 4 years.
In doing some research for this, I came upon a slideshow of ten really good college players who just never made it big, and "should have" according to armchair quarterbacks and pundits. Nine of them stayed 4 years, and the lone exception, Adam Morrison, stayed 3. One and done or two and through. Anything else dramatically cuts your odds of being anything but an NBA journeyman.
Just saw this guy for the first time today vs Duke. I immediately hated him. At some point the line of 'firey emotional leader' ends and the line of 'loud obnoxious attention bag' begins
AHHHHHH, such bittersweet memories. Remember what some Boston sportwriter said about the Spurs drafting our boy, Alfrederick The Great Hughes back then? Someone down there(meaning the Spurs Brass) must of ed their nachos.
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