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Monday, April 18, 2005

dear national basketball association,

you guys are shooting yourselves in the foot. both of them.

the quality and level of play in todays league sucks ass compared to that of the late 80's and early to mid 90's. and yeah, mj's long gone, but one player doesnt change the level of the entire league.

stop drafting high school players. you are destroying basketball at every level every time you do.

jermaine oneal is an idiot. so what if you got drafted straight out of high school, that doesnt make you an expert on the subject.

quite frankly, it means you not an expert on anything.

the reason why mlb and the nhl get away with drafting 18 yo's is that those leagues have viable, legitamate, integrated minor leagues in which a promising player can still develop his skills until hes ready to play at the highest level. the nba doesnt.

but mo, the arena football league doesnt have a minor league and they draft 18 yo's.

well, nba, youre level of play is getting about as low as the afl, so if thats the route you want to go, more power to you.

minor leagues arent even the biggest reason. gm's and owners and coaches in mlb and nhl actually understand and recognize and can evaluate skills. remember those? those are the things that players in a professional sports league need to make it professional and make people want to watch. every 18 yo drafted in those leagues is an immediate impact player that will have immediate success. and if not, they go to the minors and the game doesnt disintegrate while underdeveloped players try to catch up.

what is the logic in drafting an 18 year old child, in the expectation that he will have the skills to make an impact in 3-4 years? hey, dumbass gm, why dont you wait and draft him out of college? by actually taking these "projects" and "works in progress" really really high in the draft, you tell every high school kid who thinks he can dunk that he can play in the nba. in the process, you make the nba a mockery of itself, saturated with "developing" players who cant even make a jump shot or defend a pickandroll.

and all the while, college players who have worked their asses off for those same four years to become players with professional level skills, who have proven that they can win games and win championships, slip lower and lower in the draft every year and lower and lower in the psyche of basketball fans, all because they arent hyped leading up to draft day. who are the best nba players drafted last year? the ones with college degrees, geniuses. okafor, gordon, nelson. not sebastian telfair (who went higher than nelson), and not dwight howard (who went higher than okafor).

of course there are exceptions. kobe, lebron, garnett. thats it. melo would have gotten better with even one more year at syracuse. tmac would have been one of the biggest matchup nightmares that college basketball had ever seen. amare stoudamire wants to have game like vince carter, than he should have played three years of college ball like vince. and for every kobe, lebron, and garnett there are 8 kwame browns, 14 tyson chandlers, and 6.38 eddie curries who, years after being picked in the top 5, still arent even close to impact players.

in the early and mid 90's, the best high school players played at the best colleges. and then the best college players went on to play in the nba and made the league the highest level of basketball in the world. not the case anymore.

when kobe came out, people were shocked, but they shut up when they saw that he could play. same for stephon marbury after just a year at georgia tech. by the way, neither of them were number one overall picks like kwame brown and dwight howard. but when will avery, elton brand, corey magette and their mediocre games all leave early, and still get drafted very high, people are shocked because they flopped. same for joseph forte, one of carolina's most heralded young players ever, is now riding the bench in the nbdl, after short stints in germany and italy.

if gm's knew what they were doing when it came to drafting, than this year's draft would go something like this:
hakim warrick
keith langford
wayne simien
ray felton
rashad mccants
sean may
gerry macnemara
julius hodge
deron williams
dee brown
francisco garcia

and the rest of the first round would be college players, including carolina seniors jawad williams, melvin scott and jackie manuel.

ok, maybe not jackie, but the point is there wouldnt be a single high school player selected in the first round. cuz there is not a single kobe lebron, or comparable freak of nature man-child in this years draft, which is the case in 14 out of every 15 years.

they should take it as a lesson learned.

dont be a fool, stay in school

posted by accident at 12:50:00 PM +

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