Jaylen Brown Squashes the "Only to Adidas School" Rumor

Submitted by VicTorious1 on

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.

 

JHendo

April 15th, 2015 at 3:08 PM ^

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.

TexanGoBlue.

April 15th, 2015 at 2:47 PM ^

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/

TyTrain32

April 15th, 2015 at 6:48 PM ^

Yeah, i cant help it if people upvote me and i have a slow job, 68 posts your first day is a lil different. Just because Im a new member dont automatically assume im a troll, STD




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TexanGoBlue.

April 15th, 2015 at 2:58 PM ^

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.

ijohnb

April 15th, 2015 at 3:10 PM ^

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.

True Blue Grit

April 15th, 2015 at 3:40 PM ^

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.  

alum96

April 15th, 2015 at 5:18 PM ^

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. 

Valiant

April 15th, 2015 at 2:53 PM ^

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...

umumum

April 15th, 2015 at 3:06 PM ^

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.

Don

April 15th, 2015 at 3:10 PM ^

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.

TexanGoBlue.

April 15th, 2015 at 3:11 PM ^

Kids change their mind all the time.  Tomorrow he'll only be going to Under Armour.  We'll see..........

sasmjjsly

April 15th, 2015 at 5:04 PM ^

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.