Excerpt from recent post on the best Gonzaga forum GUboards.cm
the funny thing is...
NBA potential and college ability have nothing to do with eachother. Derek Raivio was never a serious candidate for the NBA...for one he is way to light, for two he would not be able to keep up with the amazingly more athletic NBA points. He wasnt even a true point man, hes more of a combo guard, which hurts his standing that much more. so for anyone who thought he was more than a fringe second round pick, they were ludicris. Now Heytvelt has been haled as a poor mans Brandin Wright with a Jumper. Brandin went in the lottery last year. Does anyone remember when heytvelt killed UNC last year? that was when heytvelt was getting a lot of attention. If things had not gone so poorly for him to finish the season, i dont think he would be here right now, he would have been a 1st rounder in one of the deepest drafts in recent memory. Im not going to say hes ever going to generate that kinda hype again, but he is still a VERY talented athletic power forward prospect and still garners a lot of attention even now. Scouts are what matter, if you know any scouts or have insider accounts then you might get in on what scouts have to say every now and then.
Also in regards to athletisicm and size:
This is not your moms Gonzaga Bulldogs. Mark Few is bringing increasingly better recruiting classes every year. what this means is guys like Austin Daye, dont have to stick around with the zags because he already has generated hype in high school and has done enough and shown enough potential right now to have a chance to go pro and get picked in the lottery. He is not like David Pendergraft, or even Corey Violette. Those guys did not and will never have a chance to make it in the NBA, too slow, too undersized for their position, not nearly close to the athleticism as their NBA counterparts. Gonzaga has won games based off guts and determination before, now they actually compete with teams like UNC, UCONN, UT, Memphis, ect. Im not saying i know more than anyone here, cuz i dont, but i have had the luck to be relocated in the college basketball mecca (Kentucky) and i see top flight teams in person all the time, i used to be naive when it came to basketball, "...oh yeah my friend might make the NBA" i would say. I am positive there are at least 2 definite NBA'ers on the zags roster in Heytvelt and Daye, but Bouldin, Pargo, Sacre, Gray, ect. those guys will be a wait and see thing, and honestly Sacre and Gray, im not sold they are even future Gonzaga starters let alone NBAers. Bouldin and Pargo definitely have a realistic chance to make a run at the draft. so yeah this may be a useless post, but seriously, there is more NBA talent on Gonzaga than EVER before.
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