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Player Jabari Parker

Pretty good stuff from the Grantland article interviewing real NBA scouts about Jabari and other top picks:

I think he’s really selfish, took some really tough contested shots, but probably because he looked at the [Duke] team around him and just said, “Fuck it.”

Worst case, he’s Shane Battier. But he’s better.

Defense … now that’s a problem. It’s like Coach K kept it a secret.

I know he is bad on defense, but so is Kyrie Irving; should the Cavs have taken someone else?
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Even non-Duke-obsessed people realize K kept defense a secret from his players last season.

The 2nd best player in the Irving draft was Kawhi Leonard. 3rd best was Jonas Valenciunas. Argument is weird.

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/ryen- ... nd-parker/
 
I'm going to assume he was talking about general success, not necessarily the type of player.
 


Well...alright then.
 
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How the hell did the "out of shape" rumor get started? He appears to be in the best shape of his generally chubby life.
 
OK. Watching that video makes me mad.

Was he in on Jiggy's corndog diet during the season? He looks about 10 times more mobile and much slimmer.

Sometimes I have my doubts about our S&C program...
 
Didn't have much incentive until now. One and dones don't need to try during their one season in college. Drummond is in line to make the max for about 15 years of his life, so about $300 million present day value. He basically didn't even play basketball in college. Parker gave the impression of trying hard while really putting in 1/10th of the effort he is now to get in shape. One and dones are really kind of shitty for the program unless they are intrinsically motivated and awesome.
 
NOD said:
OK. Watching that video makes me mad.

Was he in on Jiggy's corndog diet during the season? He looks about 10 times more mobile and much slimmer.

Sometimes I have my doubts about our S&C program...
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I briefly met the S&C coach last summer. Big buff dude that used to work with the football team IIRC. I wanted to tell him he's terrible at his job but didn't feel right. Our in season S&C has to be among the worst of the elite programs.
 
Topher said:
NOD said:
OK. Watching that video makes me mad.

Was he in on Jiggy's corndog diet during the season? He looks about 10 times more mobile and much slimmer.

Sometimes I have my doubts about our S&C program...
Click to expand...

I briefly met the S&C coach last summer. Big buff dude that used to work with the football team IIRC. I wanted to tell him he's terrible at his job but didn't feel right. Our in season S&C has to be among the worst of the elite programs.
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I don't know how to compare in-season stuff specifically -- i don't watch other teams nearly as closely -- but I think our S&C is fine. The work done with our bigs has been really good, but also the transformations guys like Seth and Nolan made stamina-wise and strength-wise were great to see. I'm sure our guys don't do nearly as much during the season, and I also bet that with the shallow post depth we had, no one was really interested in Jabari losing much weight.
 
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