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It's all about NBA for a lot of these guys. Dont care if a player dominates in college if he isn't a lottery pick in the NBA he isn't an elite player in their minds. College should be about how a player performs in college and his value to his team. Not what his NBA potential is. Garza isn't on anyone's draft board right now.
That said there is a lot of guys have some great seasons right now not everyone has really heard about Garza just yet. He justifiably won't be on everyone's list.
That said there is a lot of guys have some great seasons right now not everyone has really heard about Garza just yet. He justifiably won't be on everyone's list.
If they are the guys I'm guessing from those schools then it's a solid list and hard to argue with. You can definitely make the case for Garza though. Plus Garza is dominate in what is widely believed the deepest conference right now.
Yeah, it's easy to make a list without Garza and just as easy to make one with him.
If Garza played for a team like MSU he would be on everyone’s list, and I’m gotdam serious.
I've watched a lot of CBB this year and Garza is far and away the best player I've seen
Lavin said his list was all players on teams in the top 12 of the rankings. He followed up listing three more players, Garza being the first one mentioned, and said any of them could also win the POY.
Translation: OP is an idiot.
That's fine.
All the more reason for Luka to come back next year and make the college basketball world pay for showing such disrespect......
Completely agree.
There are guys out there that you can't probably watch for 2 minutes and say, "Wow!" - Garza is not one of those guys.
But, you watch him for a game, or two or three games, and he's amazing! TC would make a highlight reel most games with some thunder dunks, but then go to sleep for a while. Garza brings it every minute he's in there.
He is going to get many, many awards after the season.
Neither is Jokic with the Nuggets. He looks 'soft'. Limited leaping skills. Doesn't look like a highlight reel (like you could argue Tyler Cook was at Iowa). But he just puts in points like crazy. Larry-Bird-like.
Garza is in that same mold, IMO. He does have skills to work on to play at the NBA level, but to claim he doesn't look 'wow' enough on highlight tapes is silly.
FWIW, Jokic has excellent court-sense and passing skills, which I think is an area Garza would need to develop to reach that level. But like Jokic, Garza can score from anywhere on the court, and if he keeps shooting 50% from anywhere on the court, he's going to find a role in the NBA for many years....
This, and that applies to football, too. Years ago, SI used to have a yearly thing about how the Heisman should be the player, usually a QB, that would best make the NFL, completely ignoring that the Heisman is a COLLEGE award. And college honors should be about college acconplishment and team worth.
Well, considering CyTwins knows nothing about sports and even less about Iowa players, I suspect Luka is a lock for first team.
I don't know what the national sports reporters are saying about Luka, but the BTN pundits still seem a bit incredulous every time they bring him up.
