Theo Akwuba
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I agree with you. I don't believe it takes being a 1st rounder for him to go pro. If a team shows a lot of interest in him then he might be willing to accept a later round pick. I'm sure right now he's saying 1st round or nothing, but that can sure change based on conversations with teams. It's like selling your car, at first you claim you won't sell it for anything less than x, then someone shows up and they're a big hawkeye fan and they tell you how much they love the car but only have so much money. You give in and sell the car for y.
Who said this for a fact? I understand 1st round and he's gone. I have never heard any of the Murrays say if not the first round then he's for sure coming back. Did I miss something or are people just parroting each other at this point?
If Kris is only getting second round feedback he has the potential to move up significantly higher in the draft next year, Weiskamp did not.
What I was talking about is if a team says we are going to take you late in the first round if you stay in the draft. They give you a guarantee, privately, which happens fairly frequently in the NBA. Common sense is you would stay in the draft.
I'm pretty confident Iowa fans will see Kris back in an Iowa uniform next season.
Exactly, the feed back is coming from the teams.
What they have told all the players from Iowa who have gone through this process recently has pretty much been spot on.
I think that if Kris believes he can make the kind of jump that Keegan made this year, or at least play himself into a top 15 pick, it would make a ton of sense financially for him to bet on himself and come back to Iowa. Here are salary projections for last year’s draft:
www.hoopsrumors.com
As it says in the article, rookie contracts are guaranteed for the first two years, with team options on years three and four. Look at the difference just between pick 15 (Kispert) and pick 25 (Quentin Grimes)
Certainly no guarantee of anything, and actually some risk in the case of injury, but the rationale is there for Kris to come back
Rookie Scale Salaries For 2021 NBA First-Round Picks
We break down the salaries the first-round picks from 2021's NBA draft will earn on their first contracts.
www.hoopsrumors.com
As it says in the article, rookie contracts are guaranteed for the first two years, with team options on years three and four. Look at the difference just between pick 15 (Kispert) and pick 25 (Quentin Grimes)
Certainly no guarantee of anything, and actually some risk in the case of injury, but the rationale is there for Kris to come back
Tom is implying that by saying unless he gets a guarantee he will be back in an iowa uniform. I’m personally not convinced that will happen. If the right situation happens with a team and he’ll be taken in round 2, Kris may move on.
Well Tom certainly has more information on this specific situation than I do so I'll defer to him on what's happening at the workouts and any feedback that's coming out from Kenyon.
What a great get in the portal by a former UNI and Iowa State coach today. Baylor Scheierman was getting recruited by Duke, Kansas, and Kentucky among others. Greg McDermott might have Creighton in the final four next year.
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Anyone heartbroken over Theo might take solace in the rumors that one or both of Washington State’s big men are rumored to be headed to the Big Ten. I have no specifics on if it’s Iowa. Both of them are excellent talents who haven’t reached their ceilings. Think Christian Koloko style game. I hope one chooses Iowa.
Take your pick, Iowa probably needs an Efe style PF/small ball 5 more. But I think Mouhamed Geye is the Koloko type future star I was thinking.
Where are you hearing this? Efe I think eliminated Iowa but the Freshman just entered portal recently. I’m guessing Muhomad has not even scheduled visits yet.
It's quite possible Efe changed his mind a couple times from that original list--I think he got so much crap from putting out a list of 35 schools originally that within 24 hours of entering the portal he put out a top 10 list and I haven't heard anything since he did that--doesn't at all mean Iowa is still in it, I have no clue. Eldridge is still following FWIW so not entirely
Lol yeah, that’s all that happened. It’s ok to say “I was wrong.”
Ok so show me where he says he picked Ole Miss over Iowa because of money? If he says, that then I will say ok this kid did choose Ole Miss over Iowa because of money, But again, Iowa isn't losing guys like this because of NIL. In fact , I am guessing there are pitches made to him that NIL can be made at Iowa. There are still things called relationships, location and fit that affect recruiting. You think ISU got Hasan Ward, or their other transfers because of NIL?
If he did, I hope Fran told him implicitly to go kick sand. Hiring a coach just to recruit is such a bad idea for a ton of reasons. Ole Miss did it because the program is willing to take a high risk since the coach likely will be fired if they don't win next season.
I also think that Iowa is not able to just hire any coach at will due to the rules regarding the posting of coaching positions dictated by the University/Board of Regents.
Like I said my sources wouldn’t go beyond Big Ten as far as specifics, but you have to look at needs and playing time along with NIL opportunity (being a programs first big deal). I do not know which one is headed where. But I think Iowa could benefit from either greatly.
Gueye is the higher ceiling guy with more eligibility, but Efe is higher floor with more experience. Only reason I haven’t eliminated Efe from a probability is because of other decisions affecting his earlier choices. (He wants a great NIL deal) Some SEC/ACC schools got their free agents already lol.
Akwuba is averaging 2.5ppg and 3.5rpg, shooting 31% from the floor for an Ole Miss team that has played 4 cupcakes so far.
