(04-16-2015 04:05 PM)Tribal Wrote:  

(04-16-2015 03:42 PM)dan10 Wrote:  

(04-16-2015 02:18 PM)Tribal Wrote:  

(04-16-2015 01:54 PM)TDenverFan Wrote:  

(04-16-2015 12:54 PM)Tribal Wrote:  You think a graduated CAA guard would come in for one season and start for anyone out there to include a few Sweet 16 schools named on his list?

He'd start at Arizona, Duke, Maryland, Ohio State, Gonzaga, Louisville, Kentucky, UCLA, Michigan State, Georgetown, UVA, Wisconsin, UNC, Notre Dame, et al?

Not. A. Chance. I don't think he'd even start for UNLV.

IMO you're really underestimating him. He was the nation's 5th leading scorer. He would start for a decent portion of those schools

That's against mostly CAA talent. He's a streaky scorer and he's nothing more than a scorer. Lots of points against So California and CAA teams but went 4 of 14 vs Colorado for 12 pts and 2 of 6 for 9 pts against Miami. That's with multiple years in the same system.

Using national stats to argue a CAA player could get it done at a major program doesn't hold water. Benimon, for example, scored about a total of 80 pts in 60+ games (10 mins/game) over 2 seasons at Georgetown, transferred to TU and all he did in the CAA was crush everyone on his way to CAA POY, 1st team defensive player, and the 2nd best rebounder in the nation.

When did Damion Lee turn into John Wall?

What's your point? Benimon is doing just fine in the D-League scoring 20 and grabbing 8 a game (hasnt been given a shot yet at the NBA level--2 mins and 1.5 rebounds with the Jazz). Just because they didnt show their talents or get the playing time at the bigger school doesnt mean they didnt have the talent to begin with.

I think my point is obvious: Even the best CAA players have little hope of being relevant at a premier school. Benimon was a much better CAA player than Lee but was irrelevant at GU. How Benimon is doing with a D-league program, however, has nothing to do with my point.

Lee has a lot of talent. Who knows how well he would have done had he gone to a top-50 team directly out of HS where they would have surrounded him with talent and developed him. But, he ain't starting at Duke, Maryland, or Arizona. Period.

Based on this thought though, you dont think MT would have been able to start late in his career at a big time school?

Lee is headed to Louisville.


http://www.courier-journal.com/story/spo.../26235159/

Drexel transfer Damion Lee picks U of L

Louisville set Drexel transfer Damion Lee as its top priority this month, and that persistence paid off on Thursday.

Lee announced his decision via Twitter moments after Scout.com first reported the news. The 6-foot-6 wing will graduate this spring is immediately eligible to play for the Cardinals.

The Baltimore native visited Louisville from Sunday to Tuesday and returned home Wednesday for a meeting with Gonzaga. He first visited Arizona over the weekend before his trip to U of L.

Lee, who finished fourth in the nation in scoring last season, gives Louisville a big boost on the wing with the departures of Wayne Blackshear and Terry Rozier. He figures to start right away as freshmen Deng Adel and Donovan Mitchell adjust to college life.

In adding Lee, Louisville now has two graduate transfers in the fold for next season. Cleveland State's Trey Lewis signed with U of L earlier this month and gives the Cards a solid shooting point guard.

Lee has chosen Louisville, where he is expected to start immediately. Will be interesting to see how it plays out, especially with Louisville in more of a rebuilding mode. Very surprised he did not choose Maryland.

(04-23-2015 12:40 PM)Seahawk Nation 08 Wrote:  Lee is headed to Louisville.


http://www.courier-journal.com/story/spo.../26235159/

Drexel transfer Damion Lee picks U of L
The 6-foot-6 wing will graduate this spring is immediately eligible to play for the Cardinals.

What a joke. UL should just join the NBA developmental league.

To pretend this is "college basketball" is just a mockery.

(04-23-2015 12:41 PM)dan10 Wrote:  Lee has chosen Louisville, where he is expected to start immediately. Will be interesting to see how it plays out, especially with Louisville in more of a rebuilding mode. Very surprised he did not choose Maryland.

Yeah, must have been that specific, graduate level academic major that Louisville had, but MD and Drexel didn't.

(04-23-2015 01:13 PM)Tribeheart Wrote:  

(04-23-2015 12:41 PM)dan10 Wrote:  Lee has chosen Louisville, where he is expected to start immediately. Will be interesting to see how it plays out, especially with Louisville in more of a rebuilding mode. Very surprised he did not choose Maryland.

Yeah, must have been that specific, graduate level academic major that Louisville had, but MD and Drexel didn't.

Everybody knows those types of transfers pick a school and then find a major that their initial school does not have, not the other way around.

I still don't see the issue. He gave Drexel 4 good years, then graduated and went somewhere else. It's a good move for him, most likely. If he was terrible, would the team have offered him a scholarship for his grad year?

Anger at Lee on here is stunning. Kid has worked his ass off and is trying to make it to the NBA to further his career. He gave Drexel multiple good seasons of excellent basketball without him they would have been much worse off. To say he "owes" anything more to that school is absurd. He'll have a much greater chance at impressing scouts and getting drafted at Louisville than Drexel. If some student at WM who happened to be a tech wiz kid and had earned a full scholarship here then transferred out to Stanford to make better connections in Silicon Valley did the same thing, would people be similarly all over him?

(04-23-2015 04:49 PM)TribeInTheBurg Wrote:  I still don't see the issue. He gave Drexel 4 good years, then graduated and went somewhere else. It's a good move for him, most likely. If he was terrible, would the team have offered him a scholarship for his grad year?

I mentioned it before, if Marcus had been in a similar situation and graduated with a year of eligibility left, are we naive enough to think that he wouldn't be at Georgetown or Maryland?

(04-23-2015 05:09 PM)Tribe2011 Wrote:  Anger at Lee on here is stunning. Kid has worked his ass off and is trying to make it to the NBA to further his career. He gave Drexel multiple good seasons of excellent basketball without him they would have been much worse off. To say he "owes" anything more to that school is absurd. He'll have a much greater chance at impressing scouts and getting drafted at Louisville than Drexel. If some student at WM who happened to be a tech wiz kid and had earned a full scholarship here then transferred out to Stanford to make better connections in Silicon Valley did the same thing, would people be similarly all over him?

Just from my end, I have no problem with Lee.

My comment was about the ongoing fraud and disgust of college athletics. Face it, UL has no academic interest in Lee and I doubt he has any at UL.

Just make these these schools official farm teams and stop the charade of being college athletics.

(04-23-2015 05:09 PM)Tribe2011 Wrote:  Anger at Lee on here is stunning. Kid has worked his ass off and is trying to make it to the NBA to further his career. He gave Drexel multiple good seasons of excellent basketball without him they would have been much worse off. To say he "owes" anything more to that school is absurd. He'll have a much greater chance at impressing scouts and getting drafted at Louisville than Drexel. If some student at WM who happened to be a tech wiz kid and had earned a full scholarship here then transferred out to Stanford to make better connections in Silicon Valley did the same thing, would people be similarly all over him?

I have no problem with Damion Lee either. My qualm is the NCAA's graduate school rule which should simply read that you're free to transfer once you graduate with no wait period. Too much is disguised by the NCAA as being academic driven.

Okay, so he's out of the CAA and no longer W&M's concern. There must be something Tribe related to talk about like Charley Gould's rise to replacing Katz as BT's favorite baseball player of all time.