LA Times: NBA Lockout "Virtual Certainty"
Mark Heisler at the L.A. Times writes up a good piece on why it looks like the NBA is on a sure-fire course for a lock-out come July. Obviously, this will have a major impact on who returns to college basketball next year.
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As much as I like the NBA
I love our Bruins more. Does this mean they’d all come back? If so, I say let the lock out begin! I’d love to see this team back, with the addition of the Wears and Powell. Wow. I’d really like to get back to another final 4!!!
Go Bruins!
We could have used the lockout a lot more after any of our Final Four seasons
This season, I don’t really feel like anyone on our team is a surefire draft pick, lockout or not. Honeycutt maybe, but not for certain…
CHad Ford of ESPN wrote differently
Said that Honeycutt is in danger of not getting drafted. Not sure I agree, but throwing it out there.
I'd love to know what he had to say about it
especially considering the fact that every other mock draft out there has TH going no later than the low 20s. For everyone else to be thinking “first rounder” and Chad Ford to be thinking “undrafted”, that’s just sort of fascinating.
I think Ford's point is Honeycutt is hurting himself know and needs to do better
Outside of the Kansas game his numbers are pretty pedestrian. Of course, Kansas was the best place to have a big game.
Sorry, uclaluv
but if the nba were to disappear immediately and forever, I wouldn’t notice. I recognize that I’m in the minority on this (as I am on most subjects), but the fact of the matter is that for me the nba is as exciting and watchable as the stuff on Bravo.
I once saw a comment that I strongly identify with
in the local Atlanta paper which said something like “I watched ten minutes of the NBA on TV last year. This year I plan to cut down.”
LMAO
I can’t think of a better sports scene next year…living in an NBA-free Seattle the last two years has been a total treat. The way the league and scumbag stern stole the team from here is all you need to know about the way the league operates. A lockout would be such a fun show to watch…way better than watching the actual games.
Not to be disrespectful to anyone here
but when this topic comes up, the tunnel vision exhibited by most college basketball fans cracks me up. Everyone seems to forget that their underclassmen stars wouldn’t be the only ones coming back for an extra year.
Looking over the mock drafts for 2011 and 2012, there are 11 teams that could have three or more draft picks on their squad next year and UCLA isn’t one of them. That’s not to say that the draft boards are the end-all-be-all or that we couldn’t be the best team in the country based on a combination of talent and experience. All I’m saying is that there would be other scarier teams based on the sheer conglomeration of talent (I’m thinking specifically of Kentucky and Baylor here).
For God’s sake, if Calipari had a year in which he lost no freshman to the draft, he’d have a roster 10-deep of NBA talent. Of course, a lockout, and the resulting return of would-be one-and-dones could create a wave of decommitts and a reshuffling of the recruiting landscape.
Big point
I think you may a really good point:
Of course, a lockout, and the resulting return of would-be one-and-dones could create a wave of decommitts and a reshuffling of the recruiting landscape.
I think UCLA, given our lack of an elite PG recruit, has the most to gain from this and the least to lose.
Trying to think through
your last sentence. If there were a lockout, we would (barring transfers) lose no players whatsoever, and all but I think 10 other D-1 teams would lose one or more seniors, so perhaps that’s a plus for us in terms of stability. Carlino’s departure does give us one open scholarship for next year. I suppose a top PG recruit looking for PT would have less choices in a situation where the Josh Selbys of the world ‘have’ to stay in school…or perhaps go play in Europe for more than they’d make at a school without Timmeh.
Does anyone think that, if the assumption that a lockout is definite begins soon, any Bruins (or players elsewhere) would play a little more for the coaches and a little less for the scouts? I can’t decide if I think that would be an issue for Honeycutt. Lee has stepped up his effort – and conditioning – regardless, so I don’t think that’s a worry with him. Just a thought.
As an aside, after watching four games…Josh Selby is the real thing.
Roses are red, violets are blue...f*** $C.
As it stands, the top two PG prospects
and four of the top 15 are headed for schools with NBA-ready underclassmen PGs on the roster. Chances are Marquis Teague, Myck Kabongo, Tyrone Johnson and Naadir Tharpe would all seek out new situations rather than sit behind Brandon Knight, Corey Joseph, Maalik Wayns and Josh Selby respectively.
The downside is that of the two guaranteed home runs (Teague and Kabongo) you have one who wants to play in Calipari’s more open, playmaker-friendly offense (Teague) and one who comes from a school that serves as a minor league for the University of Texas b-ball program (Kabongo). Outside of the top 4 or 5 PG prospects, I doubt that many frosh prospects would be a noticable step up from Zeke.
and let's not forget about Europe
With Brandon Jennings doing the one and done in Europe, getting paid and still having success in the NBA, I am sure there will be a lot of kids testing those waters.
by PasadenaBruin on Jan 2, 2011 6:31 PM PST up reply actions
This is what I suspect will happen to those who don't want to do the "school" thing another year
(or half of the Kentucky team…)
Kentucky players are doing the "school" thing now?
News to me!
Oh UCLA you sweet bitch, you've BRUINed me for anything else.
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