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Andre (Edit: LEAVING FOR NBA)

Bummer to hear he's leaving. I selfishly wanted him to stay to see just how great this team could have been next year. I wish 'dre the best of luck and I really hope it was the right choice for him.
 
Best of luck to Dre. I understand the decision, and he's a great Buff.

I still think he made the wrong decision though. He's going to be spending a lot of time in the Sioux Falls of the world next year.
 
damn him for not considering my selfish needs. Watching him play those last two games, you could tell he was playing like he knew these were his last chances to make a mark in college. That said, he's gonna kick ass, even if it takes a while. Best of luck Dre! Let the NBA know whose ball it really is :nod:
 
Good luch Dre! I hope all of you attain all of your dreams in the NBA. Great Buff and will always appreciate his time and efforts while in Boulder!
 
jgisland said:
I just dropped a blog post on why the I fully support his decision.
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Nice Post. I think Dre made the right decision with the notion that next years draft class will be loaded. Dre had all the data and advice he needed and made the decision he felt was right, so who is anyone to tell him he's making a mistake.

He's on the cusp of being gauranteed a lot of money playing the game he loves. It's all up to him now to perform in his pre-draft workouts and make being a first round selection a reality. Get em Dre, Go Buffs!
 
BIGEZ321 said:
Nice Post. I think Dre made the right decision with the notion that next years draft class will be loaded. Dre had all the data and advice he needed and made the decision he felt was right, so who is anyone to tell him he's making a mistake.

He's on the cusp of being gauranteed a lot of money playing the game he loves. It's all up to him now to perform in his pre-draft workouts and make being a first round selection a reality. Get em Dre, Go Buffs!
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Well, according to Tad's remarks, based on the same data, he felt it was the wrong decision.
 
Would he be better off going late first round or early second round? I realize that based on the guaranteed contract issue, first round is better. The reason I ask is that it's more likely he'll stick with whatever team drafts early on the second round. Miami isn't clamoring for a defensive specialist.

Or maybe they are. I don't know much about the NBA. Which is kind of the reason for the question.


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jgisland said:
I just dropped a blog post on why the I fully support his decision.
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You make some good points (weak draft, economics in his favor--if---and a mighty big IF---drafted), but not enough to justify Dre's decision.

Compare and contrast the "expert" commentators' recent remarks about how Matt Barkely remained "a late first round choice" in this recent draft, (even though he stayed at U$C one year too long, at a personal cost of $10-15 million or so?) with your BB experts' claims about Dre. Are they any different in terms of true expertise?

There's a reason your NBA "experts" are commentators, rather than player personnel guys for NBA teams, just as those FB commentators are not NFL personnel evaluators.

Wish Dre the best of luck, but those bus rides to Canton can be brutal.
 
DBT said:
Well, according to Tad's remarks, based on the same data, he felt it was the wrong decision.
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Tad doesn't want anyone to leave early unless they're a guaranteed 1st round pick. Which I agree with as well. However, I think Dre's situation is a bit different from the standpoint that he'll at least get picked in the 2nd round this year or possibly go undrafted in 2014 because of the draft strength.
 
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sackman said:
Would he be better off going late first round or early second round? I realize that based on the guaranteed contract issue, first round is better. The reason I ask is that it's more likely he'll stick with whatever team drafts early on the second round. Miami isn't clamoring for a defensive specialist.

Or maybe they are. I don't know much about the NBA. Which is kind of the reason for the question.
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I'd much rather see him in the late first. Putting the obvious contract advantages (and good PR for CU) aside, I think Dre is going to be better off joining a good team. If a team is in the top 20% of the league, that's a team that already has offensive firepower and good leadership. It would be the right situation for Dre to grow within. Using the Rodman example, Worm was able to go into a situation where there was an established coach, an upper-tier team, and vets like Isaiah, Dumars, Laimbeer, Mahorn, Dantley and Vinnie Johnson. They had a culture. They could use a developmental "energy" guy who could come off the bench and only be asked to do the things he could do well since they didn't need to run the offense through him. In fact, they didn't have enough shots to go around to run the offense through him even if they wanted to do so. They were also a defensive-minded team.

I'm hoping to see Dre end up somewhere like San Antonio, Chicago or Boston. I think those are the best fits.
 
Buffnik said:
I'd much rather see him in the late first. Putting the obvious contract advantages (and good PR for CU) aside, I think Dre is going to be better off joining a good team. If a team is in the top 20% of the league, that's a team that already has offensive firepower and good leadership. It would be the right situation for Dre to grow within. Using the Rodman example, Worm was able to go into a situation where there was an established coach, an upper-tier team, and vets like Isaiah, Dumars, Laimbeer, Mahorn, Dantley and Vinnie Johnson. They had a culture. They could use a developmental "energy" guy who could come off the bench and only be asked to do the things he could do well since they didn't need to run the offense through him. In fact, they didn't have enough shots to go around to run the offense through him even if they wanted to do so. They were also a defensive-minded team.

I'm hoping to see Dre end up somewhere like San Antonio, Chicago or Boston. I think those are the best fits.
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Gotta think Dre is hoping for SA too. And as much as it'd suck for the Nugs, I'd be thrilled with that.

God, imagine how good Alec would look right now if GS had taken him instead of Klay. Ugh...
 
WizzersGhost said:
You make some good points (weak draft, economics in his favor--if---and a mighty big IF---drafted), but not enough to justify Dre's decision.

Compare and contrast the "expert" commentators' recent remarks about how Matt Barkely remained "a late first round choice" in this recent draft, (even though he stayed at U$C one year too long, at a personal cost of $10-15 million or so?) with your BB experts' claims about Dre. Are they any different in terms of true expertise?

There's a reason your NBA "experts" are commentators, rather than player personnel guys for NBA teams, just as those FB commentators are not NFL personnel evaluators.

Wish Dre the best of luck, but those bus rides to Canton can be brutal.
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So, the commentators aren't qualified to gauge his stock, but you feel you are? You can't really have it both ways here.
 
mattrob said:
So, the commentators aren't qualified to gauge his stock, but you feel you are? You can't really have it both ways here.
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And one of those commentators was David Aldridge, who in his article anonymously quoted NBA GM's, NBA scouts and College Basketball Coaches that had played CU this past season. Aldridge had come to the conclusion that Dre was an early second rounder based on the very people who make these draft decisions. If that isn't qualified knowledge I'm not really sure what is.

While it's certainly possible that Dre doesn't get drafted, it doesn't seem like that will be the case.
 
jgisland said:
And one of those commentators was David Aldridge, who in his article anonymously quoted NBA GM's, NBA scouts and College Basketball Coaches that had played CU this past season. Aldridge had come to the conclusion that Dre was an early second rounder based on the very people who make these draft decisions. If that isn't qualified knowledge I'm not really sure what is.

While it's certainly possible that Dre doesn't get drafted, it doesn't seem like that will be the case.
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CBS Sports predicts number 40 off the board. Dre has a lot of impressions to make in the next two months.

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/draft/mock-draft/round/2
 
mattrob said:
So, the commentators aren't qualified to gauge his stock, but you feel you are? You can't really have it both ways here.
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That's exactly what it means. Try to keep up! You should just feel fortunate that allbuffs has our very own "expert" on basketball scouting.
 
Buffenuf said:
Sticks around where? Europe? Could have stayed here, with free performance training and overall BB coaching, paying only for some add-on "O" coaching (if he felt he needed it and probably did). Except for the latter, he'll now he pay for that formerly free stuff out-of-pocket---oh, and tuiton too. He easliy could have graduated and gone to Europe like Levi and Dufault did, likely for even more scratch than those two pull in.

Nonetheless, Dad won, and we all wish Andre the best. It was always fun to watch a him and count the boards he pulled in to see if he could notch another double-double. (But then, Gordon and Thomas just got huge smiles on their faces for next season.)
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Andre brings more to a NBA team then Levi or Austin would. As long as he stays healthy, should find a way to stay on a NBA roster for a couple years.
 
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