Realhoops wrote:vivid_dude wrote:jpinkham3 wrote:This thread devolved quickly.
One terrible, unfounded, no-logic-behind-it opinion can do that rather easily.
I hope TyTy becomes an NBA All-Star. Jay fans can have some nice Russell-Westbrook-esque reminiscing about him. In this case, it totally worked out for the better for the Jays. I wouldn't trade any of our three freshmen for TyTy today. Everybody would have traded any of the three for TyTy 9 months ago. Get your revisionist history outta here if you say otherwise!
I would absolutely not have traded two of our three freshman for him at any time. I watched a lot of both him and Nembhard in high school, and I thought Nembhard was the better player the entire time -- he outplayed him every single time they faced each other, was a better team player, and led his team the national championship. He looked so much more like a Creighton PG than Ty-Ty did from the start. And based on raw potential and physical projections, I wouldn't have traded Art for him, either. Coming out of high school you could see the potential projections for Art and his potential to be a player we have never seen here before. Totally different players and positions, so that "trade" would have been weird anyway, but I would have taken Art over Ty Ty if you'd told me I got to pick one.
Probably would have taken him over Trey at the time. And now Trey might be my favorite of all of them. And that's probably the biggest comparison, anyway -- think that's the one we got because of the decommit that we would have missed out on otherwise.
Yeah, and there's no way that Mac or the staff could have seen the same thing in a TyTy vs Trey comparison? I think it's quite possible that they did. Since they already had a PG in Nembhard. Can't say for sure when, but it's very possible they got a commitment from Trey and decided to cut TyTy loose. Again, not saying for sure that's what happened. But I'm saying that it's possible.