UPDATE: Hoiberg says Diante Garrett will have options

**geburgess** · 06-23-2011, 11:25 PM

Originally Posted by kucyclone

This will get taken the wrong way, but I honestly think he should go to Europe, and not worry about the NBA for now.

I think this will happen anyways with the lockout. Some team will work him out, sign him there, and have him play in Europe and return to the team under contract rights. He does need to bulk up and work on his shot, but he will be in the NBA someday.

**Wesley** · 06-23-2011, 11:25 PM

Originally Posted by kucyclone

This will get taken the wrong way, but I honestly think he should go to Europe, and not worry about the NBA for now.

I hope he stays in the US being a father although the lockout may leave no choice.

**ChrisMWilliams** · 06-23-2011, 11:27 PM

Just got off the phone with Fred Hoiberg. Quote below.

"You see a lot of those teams late in the second round take a flyer on a young European kid one because they don't have any roster spots. They try to develop somebody over there. It doesn't make sense to take a player here who doesn't have a chance to make the team. That low, it was probably best that he didn't get drafted. Now he can choose the situation that he goes into. He had enough interest from enough teams to make this a little bit of a bidding war for him. Hopefully he'll get some guaranteed money to go to a camp and have a legitimate chance of making their roster."

**ChrisMWilliams** · 06-23-2011, 11:30 PM

"He really did have a chance with a lot of teams but there were certain people who fell where they did in the draft. It just pushed another person in front of him."

**kucyclone** · 06-23-2011, 11:31 PM

Originally Posted by geburgess

I think this will happen anyways with the lockout. Some team will work him out, sign him there, and have him play in Europe and return to the team under contract rights. He does need to bulk up and work on his shot, but he will be in the NBA someday.

What four-year college player has ever followed this route? Get signed by an NBA team, placed in Europe, then eventually come back to the NBA. Has this ever happened? I honestly don't know.

He's had four years to prove himself as an NBA player, and it didn't happen. How long is it going to take? His time is dangerously close to being up.

**Tre4ISU** · 06-23-2011, 11:31 PM

Originally Posted by ChrisMWilliams

Just got off the phone with Fred Hoiberg. Quote below.

"You see a lot of those teams late in the second round take a flyer on a young European kid one because they don't have any roster spots. They try to develop somebody over there. It doesn't make sense to take a player here who doesn't have a chance to make the team. That low, it was probably best that he didn't get drafted. Now he can choose the situation that he goes into. He had enough interest from enough teams to make this a little bit of a bidding war for him. Hopefully he'll get some guaranteed money to go to a camp and have a legitimate chance of making their roster."

Pfff............what does he know about the NBA?

**DRCHIRO** · 06-23-2011, 11:32 PM

Originally Posted by ChrisMWilliams

Just got off the phone with Fred Hoiberg. Quote below.

"You see a lot of those teams late in the second round take a flyer on a young European kid one because they don't have any roster spots. They try to develop somebody over there. It doesn't make sense to take a player here who doesn't have a chance to make the team. That low, it was probably best that he didn't get drafted. Now he can choose the situation that he goes into. He had enough interest from enough teams to make this a little bit of a bidding war for him. Hopefully he'll get some guaranteed money to go to a camp and have a legitimate chance of making their roster."

Can I get Freddy's celly? i have a few questions for him.

**geburgess** · 06-23-2011, 11:33 PM

Originally Posted by kucyclone

What four-year college player has ever followed this route? Get signed by an NBA team, placed in Europe, then eventually come back to the NBA. Has this ever happened? I honestly don't know.

He's had four years to prove himself as an NBA player, and it didn't happen. How long is it going to take? His time is dangerously close to being up.

I don't know if it has, but with the lockout looming for the NBA, it may be the route most of these undrafted players have to go. Contract rights are still contract rights, so it's a matter of wait and see.

He may just impress enough people at a mini-camp that they sign him to the roster, who knows.

**ChrisMWilliams** · 06-23-2011, 11:33 PM

"I really think that this will work out best for Diante. When you look at a couple of teams who didn't have second round picks, they had a ton of interest in him. Now they get an opportunity to bring him in and give him a legitimate shot in making it. There are teams who had one pick in the first round and he'll have a much better opportunity to go in and make a team."

**Clones85'** · 06-23-2011, 11:36 PM

Originally Posted by kucyclone

What four-year college player has ever followed this route? Get signed by an NBA team, placed in Europe, then eventually come back to the NBA. Has this ever happened? I honestly don't know.

He's had four years to prove himself as an NBA player, and it didn't happen. How long is it going to take? His time is dangerously close to being up.

US players going to Europe before the NBA is a relatively new thing.

**jsb** · 06-23-2011, 11:40 PM

There are worse things than playing in Europe. Diante is good enough that he can probably make pretty good money over there. He has a former coach who will keep his eye out for him over here in the NBA.

**kucyclone** · 06-23-2011, 11:45 PM

Originally Posted by Clones85'

US players going to Europe before the NBA is a relatively new thing.

I really just don't see an NBA team wanting to pay for contract rights for a guy who might turn into a 3rd point guard three years down the line.

He didn't get drafted in one of the weakest drafts ever. And it's not like he wasn't seen; scouts know what he can and can't do by now. There's a glimmer of hope left with the right fit in a free agent deal, but it's fading fast. And the potential lockout certainly won't help the situation.

**ChrisMWilliams** · 06-23-2011, 11:53 PM

Diante Garrett goes undrafted but will have plenty of options | Cyclone Fanatic

**IowaStateClones** · 06-24-2011, 12:11 AM

Originally Posted by kucyclone

I really just don't see an NBA team wanting to pay for contract rights for a guy who might turn into a 3rd point guard three years down the line.

He didn't get drafted in one of the weakest drafts ever. And it's not like he wasn't seen; scouts know what he can and can't do by now. There's a glimmer of hope left with the right fit in a free agent deal, but it's fading fast. And the potential lockout certainly won't help the situation.

Ok you dont like DG, we get it.

**kucyclone** · 06-24-2011, 12:13 AM

Originally Posted by IowaStateClones

Ok you dont like DG, we get it.

For the first three years he was at ISU, I liked him better than probably 99% of this board, and defended him many times. He's just not an NBA player.