Is Hopson gone.....

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Shot0fClarity said:
If that is the case then I don't fault him at all! But a degree should be his main priority, I don't think basketball is going to give him a good income for long. There is always the risk of injury in coming back another year as well.
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Really, I would trade my accounting degree for few million NBA dollars in a heart beat. There is something wrong with the idea that it is more important to get a degree than to make money. You can get a degree when your 40 or 50 if you want. While I'm on this rant let me say that it unconscionable that a kid who could go to the NBA out of HS and make millions has to give up a year of his life to college. Who the hell gives these people the right to make decisions that affects these kids lives and could cost their families millions of dollars. Lets say a guy who could have signed a contract for 5 years and 25 million dollars goes to college and drops dead of a heart attack who makes his family whole. If you want to keep kids from making a bad decision let them be eligible until they actually sign a pro contract and get paid. Don't pretend you are making them go to college for their benefit that is pure hypocrisy. But that is common in the NCAA.
 
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jerryvol44 said:
Really, I would trade my accounting degree for few million NBA dollars in a heart beat. There is something wrong with the idea that it is more important to get a degree than to make money. You can get a degree when your 40 or 50 if you want to. While I'm on this rant let me say that it unconscionable that a kid who could go to the NBA out of HS and make millions has to give up a year of his life to college. Who the hell gives these people the right to make decisions that affects these kids lives and could cost their families millions of dollars. Lets say a guy who could have signed a contract for 5 years and 25 million dollars goes to college and drops dead of a heart attack who makes his family whole. If you want to keep kids from making a bad decision let them be eligible until they actually sign a pro contract and get paid. Don't pretend you are making them go to college for their benefit that is pure hypocrisy. But that is commen in the NCAA.
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Common*
 
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MTSUDaff said:
I hate to say this, because I really like Tobias a lot, but it's hard for me to see him ever being anything special in the NBA just because of his build and style of his game.

He isn't real long by NBA standards, and he has an okay jumper right now. Obviously, if he makes a 17 (edit) foot jumper automatic, then all bets are off, but you can say that about anyone in the NBA.

The one thing about him is that he can run and he has unbelievable work ethic, so if anyone can work themselves into a significant contributor on an NBA roster, it's him.

If I were betting, though, I'd say he will be a career 6th man after seeing him play for one year in college. And yes, I know it's one year of college play, but critiquing him is no different than critiquing anybody coming out of college.

As for Hopson, yeah good luck ever playing anywhere other than an NBA practice unless you are in an overseas professional league. Chris Lofton has a better chance of playing on an NBA roster than Hopson does.
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The really really sad part here is that I think you actually believe what you just wrote. Please please tell me you haven't reproduced.
 
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kidbourbon said:
NBA Draft: Texas Longhorns' Tristan Thompson makes presence known - ESPN
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thats some pay site so i have no idea who he is talking about. but even if hes taling about hopson thats like a 5th hand opinion by the time you quote it here. huge huge stretch from any truth where it began and its just not true. hes not an athlete type at all. athletes have crazy strength, jumps, speed etc. thats not hopson. i like him and hope he does great but he is not athletic enough to be classified as an athlete prospect
 
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#141
His athleticism is not even the point. He has plenty of athleticism to play in the NBA. That is not what will stop him from playing in the league. Its his skill set and mental weakness that MUST improve for him to have any staying power in the NBA.
 
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shortgameVol said:
all his coaches say he shows a willingness in practice to work on things and improve. I suppose they don't know what they are talking about though.
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Hence the reason I said on the court, which insinuates in a game to anyone with logical reasoning.

kidbourbon said:
The really really sad part here is that I think you actually believe what you just wrote. Please please tell me you haven't reproduced.
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I am not even trading barbs when I say this, but while this was an obvious attempt to inject humor directed at me, it failed miserably. Being 100% honest, there.
 
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Hence the reason I said on the court, which insinuates in a game to anyone with logical reasoning.
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Interesting. I was always under the impression they practiced on courts as well.
 
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LawVol13 said:
Interesting. I was always under the impression they practiced on courts as well.
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Another rather pathetic attempt, this time at sarcasm. If you couldn't deduce I was referring to a game in my initial post you are on par with Chris Jones, here.
 
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#146
MTSUDaff said:
Another rather pathetic attempt, this time at sarcasm. If you couldn't deduce I was referring to a game in my initial post you are on par with Chris Jones, here.
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Basically, your entire participation in this thread has been rather pathetic. When you say things like Lofton has a better shot in the NBA than Hopson and you really mean it, you ought to spare yourself the humiliation and stop pretending that you have even a modicum of basketball intelligence. When Hopson is trained and developed by NBA guys, his ceiling is very, very high. Lofton is already at his ceiling.
 
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LawVol13 said:
Interesting. I was always under the impression they practiced on courts as well.
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Regardless of the sport when someone states how a player does on the "court, field, or ice" it is usually meant in the context of actual game performance.
 
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#148
Hopson has a better chance at the NBA than Lofton. No argument there. If Hopson had Lofton's desire he might already be there.
 
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Orange Bison said:
Regardless of the sport when someone states how a player does on the "court, field, or ice" it is usually meant in the context of actual game performance.
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Wonder what Coach Martin meant when he said that Monday was the first time he got to see what the guys looked like on the court?
 
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LawVol13 said:
Wonder what Coach Martin meant when he said that Monday was the first time he got to see what the guys looked like on the court?
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Since we are being sarcastic & taking every word literally did CCM specify basketball court? If he didn't say basketball he could've meant meant tennis court.

When he said what they looked like on the court did he mean how the played basketball or if they just looked good in their uniforms standing on the court?
 
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