Mitchell Robinson & Jarred Vanderbilt

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Talk about guys that got some bad advice. Both were supposed to be all that and here they are in the 2nd round. Everything about Robinson was a mess. And did Vanderbilt being a one and done at Kentucky versus somewhere else benefit him like Coach Calipari promised?
mikesyracuse1
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Vanderbilt may need another surgery. Robinson is the poster child for listening to the wrong people.

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It's hard to say that somebody else made a bad choice about their future when it's their future. Mitchell Robinson has a lot of raw talent and not much skills development. A college education and the college experience doesn't seem to be important to him, and making money as a pro basketball player is his focus. Do you take a long 2-3 year college road wasting time in class and getting marginal skills development while being restricted to 20 hours of development a week, or do you go to a development league that is focused on teaching and building skills for the NBA 24/7 and the learning curve is much shorter.

I'm sure a lot of people were telling Deandre Jordan he was making a huge mistake leaving after a mediocre freshman year and getting drafted in the 2nd round. Well, it certainly paid off for him. He got better quicker. He got to the NBA quicker. He started his time clock quicker, and he got his big pay day on his second contract much sooner than he would have had he stayed a couple more years at A&M.

We're not in their shoes, so it's hard to say they made a mistake especially when we don;t know the final outcome.
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What hop said
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Just like Robert Williams, Mitchell Robinson also decided to not attend the NBA combine, not work out or interview with several teams, etc. How the couple of months are handled leading up to the draft (presumably based on advice from their agent) and how the player does in private interviews and workouts can have a pretty big impact in terms of draft selection. It isn't just so simple as 'So and so got drafted low so he should have stayed in school or left school a year earlier or yada yada'. It might also be 'so and so decided to skip the combine and only workout with a couple of teams or didn't come off well in interviews or medical info spooked someone etc. etc.'
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Robinson flip flopping at WKU twice was definitely not helpful for his draft position. That combined with no combine dropped him down the board. Hopefully he'll turn out to be a good pro.

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mikesyracuse1 said:

Robinson flip flopping at WKU twice was definitely not helpful for his draft position. That combined with no combine dropped him down the board. Hopefully he'll turn out to be a good pro.

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When he decided to skip the NBA Combine invite and do only some private workouts competing (presumably) mostly against chairs, that on top of his brief/non-existent college career, I was wondering if a team was still going take a first round risk on him.

Meanwhile the opposite extreme, you have a kid like Luka Doncic, who even though only 19 years old, has been playing in the best professional league in Europe going against grown men (including players with some NBA experience) winning their league MVP.
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If you prove yourself as a second rounder it can work well because you can get off that rookie contract sooner sometimes.
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