LSU4Life123

Go take a look at the average size of a point guard in the modern NBA and come back to me with this take.

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Our perimeter D might be pretty decent with Herb, Murray, Jose.

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Can we stop pretending Jose is a plus perimeter defender? Dude gets exposed by any guard with legit size/skill.

I obviously acknowledge him being able to steal the ball(which does create value), but his perimeter defense is trash quite frankly.

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Ehret has been good for LSU(sans Reggie Wayne and Kordell Stewart).

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And Donte Starks

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For whatever reason in the NBA, when a star wants out, he has like 95% of the leverage, gets traded and usually exactly where he wants to be traded.

Just how it goes.

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Which is one of the main reasons why the NBA is 4 out of 4 in terms of the main 4 sports in the US. The NBA execs and front office members should just boycott and let the players run the league into the ground themselves. Most players with any real pull get their way anyway, so why not just let them go wherever they want, whenever they want, and on whatever terms they want? I will never wrap my head around a player demanding a trade to one specific team. If I was the GM of the Nets for example, I would make it a point to not trade KD to the Suns. Would field the best offer possible, whether that offer was from the Suns or from a team like the Kings.

Disagree with your first comment. I had a buddy who was a walk on for the football team who explicitly told me that an unnamed starter circa 2016(who was not good) was gifted a house at U Club during his time there as well as a debit card that never dropped below 5 figures.

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sure, players were getting paid, but not as much since it was all under the table.

But the real problem is the combination of NIL and the immediate-play transfer. This terrible combo means players can literally go to the highest bidder, and play immediately next year.

The combo of the two is destroying the game.

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Kira, on the other hand, looked awful tonight. Almost makes me think we hold onto satoransky if kira doesn’t show he can play quality minutes off the bench. He looked lost tonight and we were forced to put the ball in Marshalls’ hand which should never be the case

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Even if he doesn’t fit, he’s a better trade piece than anything we brought back,

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So if he doesn’t fit and starts to dog it(aka like Bledsoe did last year) and plays bad basketball, how exactly would he be a good trade piece at 21-22 million a year

I work in another athletic department in D-1. Universities and colleges will partner with 3rd party financial companies to teach student athletes how to manage and save their money they make off their name, image, and likeness. If anything, this encourages them to set themselves up for the future more so than not being able to profit off their NIL, especially those student athletes who do not make millions at the professional level.

I bit all of my fingernails down to the bone