ESPN says that Brook Lopez will stay at Stanford. This is good and bad news. Good because he needs another year and would just sit on the bench like Swift or Sene anyways. Bad because the Pac-10 will be that much harder. Hopefully Arron Afllalo, Darren Collison, Marcus Williams, and Nick Young will leave early.
Durant is said to be 50-50 and my advice would be to just go to the NBA. He has nothing to prove in college (I don't believe that winning a championship proves anything, you need great teammates, luck for opponents in the tourney, and the tournament as a whole doesn't churn out the best team anyways). Sure he has stuff to work on, but not much. He could probably work on ball handling a bit, and put on a few pounds of muscle, but he might as well get paid to do it. The trade off is basically friendly atmosphere with schoolwork and class or tons of money. I think $10 million per year is worth more than another year of "the college experience". Can't wait to see which players declare and which don't, because this could affect Hawes' decision.
Another surprise is Kosta Perovic, who has been putting up big numbers apparently, and even though he's been on Chad Ford's draft list the past 3 or 4 years, he wasn't drafted last draft. Any 7 footer from Europe can get people to sign him, but this guy's only 22, so he should have several teams banging on his door.
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Lopez would have been a lottery pick in the draft this year. 50 bucks says he won't be next year. I think he's making a major mistake in not declaring. Durant should definitely declare for all the reasons you mentioned. I think I'm gonna post something a little more extensive on Hawes in the next couple of days, but regardless of whether he declares or not, I don't think the Sonics would be wise in drafting him. Why would we want a less athletic version of Swift?
durant will go to the show
thats too much money to passup
Did you see Hawes' game against Stanford? He has a lot of offensive moves and he can pass well. I feel like Swift, Petro, and Sene are all just defensive guys, though Petro has looked good of late, and Swift was supposedly looking good til he got injured. Funny how ever since you made a post we've been getting a lot more comments.
I tried a little promotion on my site, facebook and a few other blogs when I posted.
I agree with Andy. Lopez will suffer the Matt Leinert Effect (depending on who goes this year) and so will Hawes if he goes next year. Freshman year, they look at potential, while sophomore year they want results (less so from the bigs tho)
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