Pitino/UofL on Donovan Mitchell is sickening
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If you are projected first round it is ridiculous not to go. Guaranteed Money for 3 seasons and your game develops much quicker in the NBA...look at Skal for example
Mitchell will still have ample opportunity to test the waters. Would be a fool if he did not.
Nobody puts a gun to these player's heads. Pitino is not a slave master and cannot make Mitchell do anything. He can certainly advise him and I have no doubt he will advise him to stay. But if Mitchell doesn't test things out, then it becomes obvious he wants to stay.
Edell is the better player and much better upside player for the NBA, IMO. I think he would get drafted for sure.
Most likely that they all return. UL will be a top tier team in that case. At least during the regular season.
Nobody puts a gun to these player's heads. Pitino is not a slave master and cannot make Mitchell do anything. He can certainly advise him and I have no doubt he will advise him to stay. But if Mitchell doesn't test things out, then it becomes obvious he wants to stay.
Edell is the better player and much better upside player for the NBA, IMO. I think he would get drafted for sure.
Most likely that they all return. UL will be a top tier team in that case. At least during the regular season.
Every thing I've read and listened to about him over the last few days from UofL fans is just hilarious. I keep reading about where he just needs 1 more year to develop and that being a late first round pick is all the more reason to come back one more season.
I remember Harrell coming back for 1 more season even though he was projected pretty high in 2014, and he ended up becoming a 2nd rounder. Russ Smith wasn't a first rounder, but the 2013 draft was very weak. One more year really did not change anything for him. The Louisville fans act like they've experienced this a lot and know for a fact how to develop NBA players, and Mitchell just needs 1 more year to be a top 5 pick. Their only top 20 picks recently were Rozier and Dieng, who were both sophomores.
I remember Harrell coming back for 1 more season even though he was projected pretty high in 2014, and he ended up becoming a 2nd rounder. Russ Smith wasn't a first rounder, but the 2013 draft was very weak. One more year really did not change anything for him. The Louisville fans act like they've experienced this a lot and know for a fact how to develop NBA players, and Mitchell just needs 1 more year to be a top 5 pick. Their only top 20 picks recently were Rozier and Dieng, who were both sophomores.
I'm not picking on you. We see it every year a top preseason team usually consist of Duke, Kansas, UNC Arizona, UK and maybe UL. as most UK fans do! Anybody's guess. I strive for UK to end up at Number1
apparently, Pitino said on the radio yesterday he views the PG slot as a competition between Snyder and Mitchell. Implication being Mitchell should come back because he'll play the point. Louisville fans are happy about this - the best they played this year was when Snyder was out and Mitchell played the point. This would allow VJ King to get off the bench.
Is this real, or is it just RP telling Mitchell something to entice him to return?
Mitchell isn't a PG and never will be just like Russ Smith. UL fans think players can just decide to start playing a different position and become an NBA player at that position because they want to. Mitchell is a 2 guard and if he can get drafted in the first round he would be an idiot not to go. Pitino will lie to him though to get him to stay.
I can think of more than a handful of guys who hurt themselves by not leaving when they did.
Chris Marcus
Brett Nelson
Chris Duhon
James McAdoo
Terrence Morris
All of those guys were projected first round and some even lottery and every single one of them hurt themselves by coming back.
Chris Marcus
Brett Nelson
Chris Duhon
James McAdoo
Terrence Morris
All of those guys were projected first round and some even lottery and every single one of them hurt themselves by coming back.
Ah Pitino is getting tired of hearing/seeing crap from Rhodes, Zipp and Steelers. And being out done by Petrino...
Not true. Not that definite anyway. We have no idea how many guys left too soon and hurt their careers in the process. We don't know how many stayed and it made them. Maybe steph curry wouldn't be himself had he gone after his sophomore year. Every player is different. People should use common sense and stop undervaluing a diploma every instance. Maybe he comes back and climbs 10 spots and becomes a better player physically AND mentally because of it. No one knows.
