As we all know, 2015 was a strange year in recruiting, with a lot of guys making suspect choices. Of the players that rejected us, who do you think stands the biggest risk of regretting his choice and being a bust in college? And why?
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Embiid is a Greg Oden level bust, amigo.That's true about Diallo, Kansas seems to be a bust factory with the exception of Wiggins & Embiid.
What's interesting is to look back and realize how mediocre the 2015 class was compared to 2016. I'm not sure we didn't end up with 2 of the three most promising prospects in the class in Skal and Murray, and Briscoe would be in the Top 10. Pretty good for a "down year".
Embiid is a Greg Oden level bust, amigo.
On that list? For next year? It's CLEARLY Zimmerman. There's no debate. Here's why...
He's not a guy who will have the ball in his hands, like Newman and Brown.
He's not a guy who will be at a major contender, like Diallo and Ingram.
He's got the biggest "role player" type game of the 5.
He's on a team that has a terrible coach and typically underachieves.
He's the only one that probably has NO CHANCE of being one-and-done.
Newman (in my best Jerry Seinfeld voice). I realize kids make bad decisions but he will quickly see that the one he made was really, REALLY bad. Poor program, poor coach, poor exposure and poor facilities. He may have a couple of good games early but once he becomes the focus of the other teams defense he's done.
I mean if you are as skilled as Newman and you plan on making basketball your life you don't go to Mississippi state unless you have grade issues or have had a few run ins with Johnny Law. So many top programs would have made him a star, instead he's going to be an also ran.
I agree it is Zimmerman too. He never did impress me that much.
Ingram, he needs to get stronger. He has the body of a prepubescent 11 year old.
I get what your saying with Ingram but to me there is a difference. I am not discounting that he is skilled but to me he is beyond thin.
Yes Davis was a little thin but not like Ingram. The Ingram kid has zero muscle and no meat, virtually skin and bones. I have never seen a college basketball player that skinny in my life.
At least with Davis he was a long athletic freak who was 6'11" and yeah he was thin but Ingram is beyond thin,
Ingram is very skilled but I don't think he will have a big impact next season.
Yes, you're definitely right. I'm not saying Ingram won't have issues just because Davis didn't. We all know that Davis didn't need to be a physical specimen to dominate in college. He didn't need to body anyone up, he could play way off a guy and still erase him and rarely fouled. Ingram really is super skinny and clearly has never seen the inside of a weight room, but neither had Kevin Durant before he got to Texas. Ingram will have the benefit of the whistle and being that rail thin you just know K was salivating over his flopping potential. I think Ingram has a chance to be the best flopper of all time at Duke, with that body type his flops will be such an easy sell to the refs in Cameron.
My vote is for Brown. Rabb is overrated and Cal lost their PG recruit (Jolly). Jaylen is still going to need someone to get him the ball, and the Cal backcourt is mediocre.
Brown is going to be stuck out on the west coast with no buzz and no exposure, and with a team that very well might not even make the tourney.
My guess is he will still be a first-round pick, but outside the lottery.
If all those guys committed to UK, I'm sure the op would have titled the thread "Which player is most likely to be an All-American?"