Jaylen Brown Squashes the "Only to Adidas School" Rumor
I'm not sure why people keep citing that he's going to an Adidas school when he refuted that rumor and said it was a misquote. If already posted, please delete.
From that clip, it sounds like he really liked his visit at Michigan...but that he loves the possibility of going to Cal. Only he knows what he's eventually going to choose, but I'm just going to assume he's headed to Cal for now.
...in which he spoke very highly of Michigan, but yeah, I'm assuming Cal if he doesn't pick Kentucky.
never mind
Well there goes our last good reason to stay with Adidas.
smells like a troll
Not a troll, but you sir are a post-stalker. Is that a thing? How am I ever going to get more points than Wolverine Devotee and have a "lasting legacy" if I don't start early and often.
semi s/
He stalked me for awhile too.
did he stop eventually? I'm tired of the phone calls.
when did I "stalk" you?
No one ever wants to stalk me...
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600+ points in <3 weeks is totally acceptable. Takes one to smell one, I guess?
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He knows Michigan is headed back to Nike.
The Nike is strong with this one
He's headed to Kentucky - like all the other elite five star talent in the country.
and then declare earlier than he should and then have an illustrious 2 year NBA career on the bench. rinse. repeat.
of all the successful Kentucky players in the NBA? Or are you unaware that you could describe a few UM players in that manner over the last few years? Or both?
Honestly, the level of basketball/ NBA knowledge on this site is pretty lacking, with the exception of a few informed posters and writers. I wouldn't single him out in particular.
Aware, but not fully aware. I think many players would be beter off developing for a another year like Glen Robnson Jr. He was athletic, but lacked a midrange game and wasnt always aggressive to the basket. You don't go to the NBA to develop. You will get eaten alive. I think kids should be more strategic about when they enter to maximize their earnings and longevity in the league. The NBA has no problem drafting a raw talent and then discarding him if it doesnt work out. Its low risk high reward for teams and high risk high reward for players.
The most overused and non-sensical take you see get thrown around is that a player should forego more college to "fully concentrate on his game." I think that is such a cliche and really kind of non-sensical. Players in the NBA are constantly traveling for 8 months of the year, are not with their team for the other 4, and at best have one full practice a week mixed in with the ever so productive "shoot arounds" that take place during the season. They also have some spending cash that can and does act to distract their commitment to the game.
Alan Iverson spoke nothing but trust when he called out the media for "talking bout practice" because they are about the only ones that do. I see very few NBA players really, really improve upon their natural ability in the NBA. Many of their shooting percentages and free throw shooting percentages actually fall from year to year in the league.
Anthony Davis' development has been nothing short of a revelation.
I don't think the same is true of most non-stars.
True but that's because of he started at rock bottom and had nowwhere to go but up. There was talk of NBADL for him during his rookie year.
when it comes to development - and this probably is kind of self-evident.
The whole system has gotten insane IMO. Most of the players taken in the first round have two or less years of college. Many of them haven't matured physically or mentally yet. All kids have to do is average in the low teens scoring-wise their freshman year and suddenly they're "on the NBA radar". The NBA teams are now throwing millions of dollars at teenagers who aren't fully developed yet as players or adults only because once a few teams starting doing it they all did. I personally hate the one and done "system" and don't think it's good for either the NBA or college basketball.
How does this differ from hockey and baseball?
Plenty of HS guys get tons of money thrown at them at age 17 in those 2 sports. (Baseball is a mix however as some guys go straight out of HS to the minors and others to college)
If anything, football is the one outlier of those 4 major sports. For the obvious reasons of how physically brutal it is.
I'll even throw in soccer where many 16-17 year olds are taken into clubs. In the U.S. if you go to college to play soccer you basically are a failure as a high ceiling prospect internationally.
So if you look at it that way, basketball is in many ways the 2nd most conservative sport after football.
Hockey and baseball are different because they have minor leagues. So these kids usually aren't called up to the big club until they're like 22-23 (the age of a college senior/graduate), unless they're rare talents.
Considering the fact that Michigan has landed one guy this millennium that Kentucky has offered, that is why I think he's going to Kentucky.
Or they could stick around and graduate, leading to great NBA careers like Zack Novak and Stu Douglass had.
That's an apples to apples comparison, all right.
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He seemed to go out of his way to speak highly of Cal. Obviously not much to go on, but I got the sense he might be leaning that way. Now that Swanigan has committed to Sparty, I wonder if he would respond the same way today...
Well then I am assuming he is Kentucky all the way. No sense in refuting a rumor if you do plan on going to an Adidas school.
There's also the outside chance that he doesn't actually know where he wants going to go yet. Not everything is a conspiracy.
False, he knows exactly where he wants to go. He is just seeing if everyone who is supposed to leave is leaving. No way the last two weeks of his recruitment hes going to have some huge revelation.
Or maybe he's trying to start a bidding war... Either way, I wasn't penciling him in and I don't think JB was either.
point I will happy if he just does not commit to State.
The Adidas meme was always grossly overplayed here. There was no reason for Brown to have UK on his short list if Adidas was deal-breaker. With Brown wanting to see who left early, it looks like he was referring to UK's 7 and not Levert.
He's Lexington-bound. Not that it's surprising—I don't think Beilein's going to be very successful getting the presumptive one-and-dones out of high school. Which is OK by me if that's the way it plays out. Getting McGary was a huge recruiting coup, and I don't know if Mitch was a one-and-doner coming out of HS anyhow.
then he wasn't, then he was, and so on and on
It seems like the coaches see the (UK) writing on the wall with Brown and are all in for Kenny Williams.
Williams may be more of a potential back up to Walton if Spike redshirts. Brown is a borderline wing, he and Williams are not really the same kind of deal.
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Kids change their mind all the time. Tomorrow he'll only be going to Under Armour. We'll see..........
A for effort.
Edit: This was directed at the user that got deleted. But ill give you an A for effort too.
This does NOT mean he's headed to KY or Cal. He said he was misquoted, so there is a grain of truth to the whole "Adidas school" thing.
At this point, if Jaylen wanted to eliminate teams, he could do it now. The guys from the programs every one is projecting him to has made their decisions: 7 KY players gone; Kansas and UNC players declared; Ivan Rabb chose Cal. Of the 8 teams he's listed as finalists, there's only one player who has yet to make a decision: Caris Levert. And he's not supposed to make a decision until the very last minute---April 26th. The only indication of a decision date that Jaylen has given was, maybe around April 17th. But there's no clear indication that will happen.
If he hasn't made a decision by the end of this weekend, then I say Michigan has a great shot of landing him.