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73282.11 in reply to 73282.9
Date: 2/16/2009 12:03:48 PM
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Do people share information they have about the players they scouted? I thought that it will always put the person who will draft higher at a disadvantage.


The draft is set up so it is very difficult to share information accurately.

I have seen the arguement a few times about not scouting a poor player a second time and I would like to throw my 1.5 cents in. The ratings for these players are not in comparison to the average person. I look at the 1 star, D- players as still the best players on thier teams by far (high school, college, whatever)

Example: When I played High school ball, there was a kid on our team who was better than anyone in our conference by far. He got scouted often by top college scouts. A scout from Indiana came and saw him play once and he was sick, played horrible, and we got creamed (Definetly a 1-2 star scouting session). A couple months later when we were in the regionals, they scouted him again and he had an outstanding game, far surpassing his normal stats. He played for Bobby Knight and the Hoosiers the next season. For those who fact check, his name was Dean Garrett. Sure he put up a 1 star effort the first time, but really that is compared to all the 0 star F- players no one scouted (like me!)

The ratings are in comparison to the field of excellent young talent, not to all the players that play. Hope that made sense, lol.

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73282.12 in reply to 73282.11
Date: 2/16/2009 12:16:42 PM
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Oddly enough, my one-a-day calendar has a blurb about 22 years ago today when Garrett hit a shot with 4 seconds left in triple OT to beat Wisconsin.

Guess he turned out OK.

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73282.13 in reply to 73282.12
Date: 2/16/2009 5:12:48 PM
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Yeah, he is doing good, saw him two years ago, his mom still lives here.

He won a national championship with IU (86-87?), drafted by the suns, 7 years in italy 1 in greece. Played for the T-wolves for a few years, and started for Den one year, where he was 6th in blocks, or something like that. Nice guy too. Lives in Minneapolis.

Sorry for the unrelated post, I return you to the subject at hand :)

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73282.15 in reply to 73282.14
Date: 2/18/2009 10:59:43 PM
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I agree in regards to FT, but if your grannie is gonna guard me in the post, my IS and ID just skyrocketed, the scouts are going to adore me. If your scouts wanna come over and watch grannie shoot horse, by all means :)

To be honest I think you pointed out a flaw in the game. It seems very unrealistic to have a player come out of high school as a top prospect and not be able to hit free throws at all. I mean like 0-24 or the like. My story was only meant to offer the point that excellent prospects often dont pan out at the next level, and that gems come out of nowhere to excell at the next level in the real world, and in a roundabout way the system does here as well.

Last edited by Heathcoat at 2/18/2009 11:09:55 PM