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#4
lol Scotty Hopson would be a fool to declare for the draft. When does he get picked? Last? Not at all?
 
#5
#5
Man, reading that makes me verklempt, no joke. I knew I was going to miss watching Chism in orange but it's not just slowly sinking in, it's smacking me upside the head. And Scotty Hopson declaring would be just about par for the course for what we've come to expect regarding his decision-making.
 
#6
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hatvol96 said:
Jeff Goodman said in his column earlier this week that he's operating under the assumption that Hopson won't be back.
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Yup, as soon as I saw him projected as a late first to early second guy by one or two places I thought he might go. One guy whispering in his ear that he knows a team that will take him late first is all it takes, whether it is true or not.

Still hope he comes back.
 
#10
#10
Chism finished tonight with 13 points 6-13 shooting, 8 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 block in 23 minutes.
 
#13
#13
hatvol96 said:
Jeff Goodman said in his column earlier this week that he's operating under the assumption that Hopson won't be back.
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Hey Hat, any word on why JP bailed?

EDIT: Nevermind...just saw in another thread where they said it was so he could graduate on time.
 
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#14
#14
i would hesitate to say he is the greatest ambassador of UT athletics but he is damn near at the the top. hope he fits in with the right team in the league
 
#16
#16
Shoot somebody convinced Ogilvy that he would be a first round pick. Sometimes it doesnt take much for some snake agent to convince these kids they will get them their pot of gold. Scotty would be making huge mistake by coming out but that does not mean it wont happen.
 
#17
#17
therickbol said:
Shoot somebody convinced Ogilvy that he would be a first round pick.
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No, they didn't. Ogilvy will take his shot at the NBA, then head back to Australia. He never had any plans of playing four college seasons. Had he not regressed so badly last season, he wouldn't have been there this year.
 
#18
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hatvol96 said:
Jeff Goodman said in his column earlier this week that he's operating under the assumption that Hopson won't be back.
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Hat, I don't get it.

There is very little about Scotty Hopson (to me anyway) that says he has any chance of making it in the league long-term. He seems like another in the mold of NBA "ton of talent but can't put it together" busts from his on the court play to his mental make-up. If he's not in Europe in three years I will be shocked.

Maybe this is why I don't really like the NBA, but they seem to put entirely too much stock on athletic upside over anything else in the draft and this happens too much.

I'd appreciate some insight into the mind of an NBA front office when it comes to evaluating a player like Hopson.
 
#19
#19
this may show how out of the loop I am, but would Hopson's status in any way impact Selby's decision?
 
#20
#20
dickens821 said:
Hopson would go in the draft.
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Why? What does he posses that other players don't? So tell me, why would he be drafted? His size? Lots of players have his size in the NBA. His shot? Has potential but not enough to justify drafting him. His attitude? Terrible. Once he starts missing shots he doesn't stop missing shots and gets down on himself and his play reflects his lack of confidence. His defense? Almost as bad as his attitude. So why would a team give any amount of money to have Hopson on their team?

Stay in school Scotty. Don't be an idiot.
 
#22
#22
I have no problem seeing Hopson's cocky ass heading out of town. If any NBA GM even gives him a second look they should be fired. He's athletic and thats it. He's got no heart, no toughness and is only an above average shooter. He'd get eaten alive over an 82 game stretch.
 
#23
#23
tigervol9802 said:
Hat, I don't get it.

There is very little about Scotty Hopson (to me anyway) that says he has any chance of making it in the league long-term. He seems like another in the mold of NBA "ton of talent but can't put it together" busts from his on the court play to his mental make-up. If he's not in Europe in three years I will be shocked.

Maybe this is why I don't really like the NBA, but they seem to put entirely too much stock on athletic upside over anything else in the draft and this happens too much.

I'd appreciate some insight into the mind of an NBA front office when it comes to evaluating a player like Hopson.
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There are plenty of teams who wouldn't even consider drafting Hopson. Of the five or six teams I know the personnel guys well enough to feel comfortable speaking about what they look for, I can only think of one that might draft him and they'd tell him to go to Europe for two years and see where he's at after that. Teams that would draft Hopson are the ones who think their staff will be able to get a guy to do things nobody else has ever gotten the guy to do. There's a name for teams like that: lottery participants.
 
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