Quote Originally Posted by RP33 View Post
you're right.. i was posting all day at work and was half paying attention.. originally i meant, who was the first #1 pick in the draft from high school to the NBA.. I just re-read everything and felt stupid.

there were plenty before kwame to go from high school to the nba.. tmac, kobe, KG etc..

my bad on that confusion..

tyler hansbrough will be a nobody in the NBA. Unless he develops a REALLY good mid-long range jumper, he will be ineffective.. He's a really strong player, physically, in college, but not in the NBA.. look at young guys who are sort of his stature that got drafted recently from college and play a similar role.. joakim noah, al horford maybe? horford is a beast and is doing well, but hansbrough is not as physical of a player as him even though they are similar in size.

I would say the NBA is a little bit more flashy then the old school fundamentals lately, but you're starting to blow it out of proportion.. There may be ball hogs and the like, here and there, but those aren't the teams that win championships.. Who are you kidding? That stuff is the least of the NBA worries, believe me. It's a business.. if you're not producing trying to showoff or what have you, you don't get paid.
It's cool, I was just confused about what you meant for a while.

Hansbrough won't be an All-Star but he's going to be a good role player. If Luke Walton, Troy Murphy, Brian Scalabrini et al can make it in the NBA then so can Psycho T. Hansbrough is an all-around player, he has just started developing his 3 point shot, he has a good normal range about 18-20 feet from the basket, he hits his free throws, he runs the floor extremely well, and he draws fouls like nobody's business. He has a good mid range jumper, but his ability to hit the natural 3-point play is unbelieveable

I don't mind flashy play AT ALL but the grandstanding and celebrating get to me. A couple of my all-time favorite players were flashy but they never gloated like today's athletes.