RECRUITING: 6-8 four-star A'mare Bynum talks Iowa State visit, may not be done growing yet
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I’m not saying he is good enough to be one and done right now. I’m just saying he might be one and done anyway. I hope he stays and turns the corner. He has tons of potential. Which is why he might go g league to improve.
Bynum? He’s still in high school.
I wasn't saying he was one and done, just that only a dumbass would judge a kid 3 games into his freshman season.
Omaha hasn't produced yet, but his talent alone is worth keeping a scholarship for him next year. Saying that it's best for him to move on so that TJ can use the scholarship productively is laughable. I'm incredibly frustrated with Omaha's inability to make an impact yet, but if he ever figures it out then he's going to be a stud.
FWIW i saw espn's most recent mock draft and omaha was not on it.
Here's hoping Bynum picks ISU. There... thread back on track 
Unless Omaha makes a huge leap, there's no way he's getting drafted. His initial plan was one year here and he's gone no matter what, even if that means being in the G League for a bit. I wonder with NIL though and the fact that playing Big 12 basketball is on another level (not G League but still) if he'd reconsider.
Some people think this is still the days of Eddie Curry and Tyson Chandler going #2 and #4 in the same draft straight out of high school with no tape other than high school basketball and only 2-3 foreign players a year getting drafted. Those days are ancient history.
The domestic players all get at least a year of footage vs NCAA/Gleague/OvertimeElite and the foreign players all have several years playing against players typically better than NCAA caliber, grown man pros. The NBA doesn't just ignore that "one and done" year of real footage they get to see now for American players and more importantly about a third of all drafted players are foreign now. They can go to European leagues and find young players the same age putting up big numbers against pros like Melvin Ejim, Matt Thomas, Naz Long etc in the prime of their grown man playing years, they can find 20 year olds who have been doing that for 4-5 years and already living the life of a pro athlete.
I know in the NFL threads I often make comments that expose me a casual fan, but when NBA and the draft comes up here sometimes I wonder if people have even followed it at all since the 80s or 90s.
He would actually have to have a GL team that would put him on a roster. Right now that’s a long shot.
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Audible...
(Not one and done material, or is he?)
(Still growing)
Audible...
(Not one and done material, or is he?)
Which is fine and I totally get it (I follow golf less than when Tiger was on his run), but the NBA draft is so different now than those early 00s years and I think most fans who aren't NBA fans don't know it.
They still draft on potential to an extent, but nothing like the wild way they were doing it in the late 90s or early 00s putting franchises on the shoulders of so many high school kids, hoping they had Kobe/KG and often getting a bust or just an average player who needed 3-6 years to develop. LeBron's draft 21 years ago is the last year high school/aau footage meant much of anything to the NBA draft.
Then you've got a full 1/3 or more of the draft that is foreign and if anything the foreign players have been delivering at a higher rate of return than American players lately, at least the very high level players. When you stopped following maybe 3-5 foreign players a year were getting drafted and now it's 15-25ish.
I know it's a step up from HS but is it really a powehouse? I remember it being described as lower level prep school regarding Biliew's development.
They’re an elite prep school. Won national champ in 2023. Have like 50 kids playing d1 ball
