Jayhawks in the NBA

[Deleted User 289]

What team is Ju on?

[pdub]

Most improved from ESPN panel:

Bam leads but Vonte gets on the board.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/294 ... nba-awards

Bam Adebayo (9 votes); Brandon Ingram (6); Devonte' Graham (4); Jayson Tatum (1)

[Deleted User 289]

Not really in the NBA but still noteworthy.

50 points for Mario

[Deleted User 310]

Just shows how good he still is. And also how hard it is to make it in the nba.

[Deleted User 289]

Just shows how good he still is. And also how hard it is to make it in the nba.

I assume you are being serious.
Let's be honest here. He was playing 3 on 3 against pretty much garbage.
Nate Robinson, Derrick Byars, Eddie Basden, Will Bynum, and Eddy Curry are hardly 2020 NBA material.

[Deleted User 310]

Just shows how good he still is. And also how hard it is to make it in the nba.

I assume you are being serious.
Let's be honest here. He was playing 3 on 3 against pretty much garbage.
Nate Robinson, Derrick Byars, Eddie Basden, Will Bynum, and Eddy Curry are hardly 2020 NBA material.

I was being serious....it isnt so much about who he was playing...it is that a few years ago he was starting on an nba team and now he cant even make a roster, but he is still capable of playing high quality basketball.

I wasnt taking his 50pts to mean he should be starting in the nba and being an all star....just that he is still very good and cant even get a chance.

[CrimsonNBlue]

Rio is 34 years old coming off a ruptured achilles. That's as deep as anyone needs to look into it.

[Deleted User 289]

Just shows how good he still is. And also how hard it is to make it in the nba.

I assume you are being serious.
Let's be honest here. He was playing 3 on 3 against pretty much garbage.
Nate Robinson, Derrick Byars, Eddie Basden, Will Bynum, and Eddy Curry are hardly 2020 NBA material.

I was being serious....it isnt so much about who he was playing...it is that a few years ago he was starting on an nba team and now he cant even make a roster, but he is still capable of playing high quality basketball.

I wasnt taking his 50pts to mean he should be starting in the nba and being an all star....just that he is still very good and cant even get a chance.

You said, "just shows how good he still is". I feel it really doesn't.

When Jordan McRae, Pierre Jackson, Dar Tucker, Manny Harris, Morris Almond, Will Conroy, Osiris Eldridge, and Kenny Hayes scored over 50 in "G" League games my first thoughts were not how good they are.

Seems like it was just yesterday. Ok, maybe not.

[pdub]

[Deleted User 289]

Rio is 34 years old coming off a ruptured achilles. That's as deep as anyone needs to look into it.

I beg to differ. I feel it's justifiable for people to look a bit deeper.
"coming off" a ruptured achilles? He injured his achilles in 2016. It's 2020.
In 2017/2018 he played 66 NBA games after he reputed his achilles. Right?
So.... I'm being serious in asking these questions - Why isn't he on an NBA roster today? Because of his age? I'm no NBA expert/guru but I would think Mario has to be as good as other guys who sit on the end of benches. Is he not?

[CrimsonNBlue]

Rio is 34 years old coming off a ruptured achilles. That's as deep as anyone needs to look into it.

I beg to differ. I feel it's justifiable for people to look a bit deeper.
"coming off" a ruptured achilles? He injured his achilles in 2016. It's 2020.
In 2017/2018 he played 66 NBA games after he reputed his achilles. Right?
So.... I'm being serious in asking these questions - Why isn't he on an NBA roster today? Because of his age? I'm no NBA expert/guru but I would think Mario has to be as good as other guys who sit on the end of benches. Is he not?

66 games as a backup when he was 31.

[Deleted User 289]

Probably/maybe the best site to get some input in to the thinking/logic regarding Mario and reading what he has to say.
I feel someone should give him an NBA job. What do they have to lose in doing it?

https://hoopshype.com/storyline/mario-c ... ee-agency/

[ousdahl]

If only Mario was former teammates with a player/GM who likes to fill out his roster with past-their-prime vets to play buddy ball with...

[CrimsonNBlue]

If only Mario was former teammates with a player/GM who likes to fill out his roster with past-their-prime vets to play buddy ball with...

That never seemed like the greatest playing relationship.

[PhDhawk]

If only Mario was former teammates with a player/GM who likes to fill out his roster with past-their-prime vets to play buddy ball with...

That never seemed like the greatest playing relationship.

I mean...it wasn't the worst either.

[ousdahl]

If only Mario was former teammates with a player/GM who likes to fill out his roster with past-their-prime vets to play buddy ball with...

That never seemed like the greatest playing relationship.

[ousdahl]

3. Coincidentally the same clapping and face gutter’s ex would make when he confronts the kid at the McDonald’s register about the cheese...

[CrimsonNBlue]

If only Mario was former teammates with a player/GM who likes to fill out his roster with past-their-prime vets to play buddy ball with...

That never seemed like the greatest playing relationship.

I mean...it wasn't the worst either.

That is so great. And, another collapse would be delicious.


Signing Mario does seem like a shrewd LeBron move. It's never materialized--leads you to think Mario is probably just done. A SG in a semi-broken 34-year-old PG body.

[ousdahl]

Yeah. It’s like the issues you mention would make Lebron paradoxically more likely to do it.

He’s in the convo for GOAT player, not gm.

[Deleted User 310]

Yeah. It’s like the issues you mention would make Lebron paradoxically more likely to do it.

He’s in the convo for GOAT player, not gm.

If the GM reputation is true then he is a top 5 GM of all time.