Welcome to the Hardcore Husky Forums. Folks who are well-known in Cyberland and not that dumb.

D Rose to D Knicks

2

Comments

  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    Tequilla said:

    Grant has a chance to be a player ...

    Wroten's plight is the exact reason that you go pro as soon as you can get a check

    Had Wroten stayed at UW until he was ready to go into an NBA rotation there's a good chance he never leaves early and has no draft stock after his senior year. If he had a work ethic it would be a different story. But with who he is, he made the smart choice.
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,231
    dnc said:

    Tequilla said:

    Grant has a chance to be a player ...

    Wroten's plight is the exact reason that you go pro as soon as you can get a check

    Had Wroten stayed at UW until he was ready to go into an NBA rotation there's a good chance he never leaves early and has no draft stock after his senior year. If he had a work ethic it would be a different story. But with who he is, he made the smart choice.
    So what you are saying is that if you can sell a shit sandwich like Wroten did versus actually selling a product by developing it and turning it into something useful, you should settle for selling the shit sandwich?

    I get that there's a lot of shithead in Wroten and between everything he heard growing up, etc. he was at a point where coming into UW he believed his shit didn't stink, it showed on the court, and has followed him into his NBA career.

    I get that given that circumstances, it probably made sense for him to go pro and collect whatever he could get since he wasn't prepared to put the work into getting better.

    Personally, I don't identify with that line of thinking at all and firmly believe that if you have a weakness you bust your ass to turn it into a strength.

    But then again, perhaps this is one of the reasons I've never been a big Wroten fan.
  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,773

    This has legs

    But no knees.
  • allpurpleallgold
    allpurpleallgold Member Posts: 8,771
    I find the idea that a player can "develop" in college but not when he's actually in the NBA idiotic. If Wroten wanted to/was capable of getting better he would have.
  • HuskiesADW
    HuskiesADW Member Posts: 141
    What everyone has failed to mention here is that the Knicks are acquiring Rose in his contract year.

    For some odd reason many injury prone/past their prime players often put up a very good/great season during their contract year. For that reason I actually like the trade from the Knicks perspective.

    Lopez is a nice player but I think KP makes him somewhat replaceable.
  • allpurpleallgold
    allpurpleallgold Member Posts: 8,771

    What everyone has failed to mention here is that the Knicks are acquiring Rose in his contract year.

    For some odd reason many injury prone/past their prime players often put up a very good/great season during their contract year. For that reason I actually like the trade from the Knicks perspective.

    Lopez is a nice player but I think KP makes him somewhat replaceable.

    The problem is what if he has a big year? Then the Knicks pay him and they're stuck with his broken own ass. If they're ready to just let him walk that's fine but this is the fucking Knicks after all.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    Tequilla said:

    dnc said:

    Tequilla said:

    Grant has a chance to be a player ...

    Wroten's plight is the exact reason that you go pro as soon as you can get a check

    Had Wroten stayed at UW until he was ready to go into an NBA rotation there's a good chance he never leaves early and has no draft stock after his senior year. If he had a work ethic it would be a different story. But with who he is, he made the smart choice.
    So what you are saying is that if you can sell a shit sandwich like Wroten did versus actually selling a product by developing it and turning it into something useful, you should settle for selling the shit sandwich?

    I get that there's a lot of shithead in Wroten and between everything he heard growing up, etc. he was at a point where coming into UW he believed his shit didn't stink, it showed on the court, and has followed him into his NBA career.

    I get that given that circumstances, it probably made sense for him to go pro and collect whatever he could get since he wasn't prepared to put the work into getting better.

    Personally, I don't identify with that line of thinking at all and firmly believe that if you have a weakness you bust your ass to turn it into a strength.

    But then again, perhaps this is one of the reasons I've never been a big Wroten fan.
    I've always hated Wroten

    hth
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,832 Founders Club
    Tequilla said:

    Grant has a chance to be a player ...

    Wroten's plight is the exact reason that you stay in school until you are ready to step into a NBA rotation

    You're forgetting the Romar factor
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855

    Tequilla said:

    Grant has a chance to be a player ...

    Wroten's plight is the exact reason that you stay in school until you are ready to step into a NBA rotation

    You're forgetting the Romar factor
    Actually developing guards is probably the one thing Romar has been excellent at. Look at the guards who have spent three or more years under Romar, almost all of them have improved drastically under his leadership (other than Gaddy).

    It's possible, even likely, Wroten wouldn't have developed significantly at UW, but that's because of who Wroten is, not who the coach is.

    It's possible, even likely, Wroten wouldn't have won significantly at UW. That's because of who the coach is.

    SOYNTLTD