Oso planning to go pro
I wish him all the luck and I’m pulling for him. If it doesn’t work out I will be thrilled to have him back on the team. He’s a warrior.
He said hes signing with an agent…..so he wont be coming back.
Players can now sign with an agent (as long as they're certified) and come back.
Did you ignore the rest of this thread?
Vander Blue called and said the weather is lovely this time of year in Uruguay.I wish him all the best but who is advising these guys?
https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2021-10-13/ncaa-certified-agents-helping-college-athletes-test-nba-draft-waters#:~:text=After%20an%20NCAA%20player%20fills,he%20forfeits%20his%20college%20eligibility.After an NCAA player fills out the application for feedback from the NBA, he can begin working with an NCAA-certified agent. If a player chooses to sign with an agent not certified by the NCAA, he forfeits his college eligibility.The way Justin's statement was worded, it would seem he signed with an NCAA-certified agent.This was the only intelligent thing for Justin to do: test the waters, see what NBA people are saying, and then make an informed decision. It's nice that an athlete now can hire an agent to help navigate the waters.Selfishly, as a Marquette fan who has enjoyed watching him play and who thinks he is a class act, I hope he sticks around for another year. But really, all I want for Justin is for him to have a successful, satisfying life. I wish him good fortune, no matter what he decides to do.
I get where Farley comes from. I do.
Very different from Vander, he is retaining eligibility.
82, I’m usually down with you. But this time, cut the altruistic bs. We want MU to be great, right? We want MU to kick A, right? …let’s just hope Justin has a satisfying, successful life? Really? Really? If Lewis goes, it’s another year of “I hope we’re good” or “in Shaka we trust”. Another 9-seed, maybe. Big maybe. I get where Farley comes from. I do. This hope & prayer MU hoops just gets old.
Yeah, thats a nice change in the rules - but Justin is going to be, at best, a mid to late 2nd rounder. But someone will blow smoke up his a$$ and tell him he can be the next JTA and he'll go with nothing but a two-way contract in hand.Justin's best shot at a meaningful and sustained NBA career is to come back and kill it for another year by grabbing BE POY and a few NCAA wins. I get he could technically still do that, but it seems once these guys get a sniff of the NBA they're gone.
Which false narrative are you pitching here:1. NBA teams care about conference awards and tournament wins when evaluating players.2. There's a link between NBA success and conference awards and tournament wins.
They go hand in hand- it's no coincidence Justin was showing up on most boards as late 1st round when we were ranked 20th and winning 8/9 and now is lucky to be in the back end of the 2nd round.Us winning was indicative of Justin playing well which also had more eyeballs on us both of which raised his stock.Or are you peddling the false narrative that NBA scouts are computers that recruit solely on some kind if complete objective 'potential' metric that only they have access to?