The NBA Draft Early Entry list is complete and 14 Big Ten players declared for the draft. Dylan and Brendan break down the list and discuss whether each player should stay in the draft or return to school, where they might be picked and the impact that their decision will have on next year’s Big Ten season.
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adamsmit86
No surprise, here is Izzo trying to convince his player to return to school even though he is a projected draft pick who has graduated and has two kids to support.
Color me SHOCKED. Has Izzo ever encouraged a player to leave early?
kturnup
Dear god what a loser. Has Cal ever said that about a first round pick? JB? Juwan? Anybody???
All he needs is reps to improve his shot huh? I wonder where he can get the most reps? Maybe a place that has made pretty much every big a decent shooter eventually. College or the NBA?
Calling Tillman a fringe guy is wild to me. isaiah Livers is a freaking fringe guy. Xavier Tillman is not.
The audacity, selfishness, and ignorance someone has to have to say something like that confounds me
hack
There are coaches that take the high road and there’s no question about it that that’s what they are doing, and then there are coaches who are just so damn good at being seen as coaches who take the high road even if they’re not.
MTung
The Bi-Polar Angry Dwarf Never ceases to amaze us. Try explaining this to Tillman’s 2 young children and their mother: “Daddy can wait to become a millionaire during a pandemic until next year so I have a better chance of winning another B1G Championship.” Shameless.
Jeffrey_E_Schiller
He’s such a freaking hypocrite. It’s better for the kids themselves to sit out a year…unless, of course, Bryn Forbes is transferring in and we need a guard, amirite, Tom?
I’ll give him this–he says crap like this, and like the Tilllman “evaluations” he’s heard about (the four leading mocks I’ve see have Tillman 18, 25, 29 and 48, which equates to 3 first round grades), and he gets folks to print it or report it without challenging him. Says something about something…