Note to Dee Bost: NBA scouts don't rely on national television to do their jobs
How many nationally televised games did Damian Lillard play?
Or even Kobe Bryant the year before he was drafted?
I ask because there's an article about Dee Bost over at SlamOnline.com in which the former Mississippi State point guard suggests the reason he's not projected to be selected in next month's NBA Draft is because he didn't play on national television enough.
Seriously.
"Playing at Mississippi State, we didn't play a lot of televised games or in front of a lot of people," Bost said. "I feel like I'm underrated. I just gotta get to workouts and prove that to everybody else."
I wish Bost knew how silly this sounds.
If NBA scouts can identify draftable prospects at Tennessee Tech (Kevin Murphy) and UC Santa Barbara (Orlando Johnson), they sure as hell know everything they need to know about somebody who played four years in the SEC. With all due respect, isn't it more likely that NBA people have seen Bost plenty and realized -- even without the benefit of 20 nationally televised games per year -- that he never posted a 2-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio, never shot better than 35 percent from 3-point range and doesn't seem to be much of a leader considering he let a talented team collapse down the stretch and stumble into the NIT?
I bet that's more of the problem for Bost.
A lack of nationally televised games?
Please.
Arnett Moultrie is a projected lottery pick, and I'm pretty sure he played the same amount of games on national TV as Bost because, you know, they were teammates in Starkville. Beyond that, the first point guard projected by most to come off the board is Damian Lillard, who played his entire college career in the Big Sky. And yet NBA scouts still somehow evaluated him just like they evaluated Kobe Bryant at Lower Merion High in Pennsylvania many years ago.
Bottom line, NBA scouts don't need to see you on television to appreciate you; they just need to know you're awesome. And the truth is that Bost, unfortunately for himself and former coach Rick Stansbury, was never awesome enough consistently enough in the ways that matter at the next level. So here we are.
Or even Kobe Bryant the year before he was drafted?
I ask because there's an article about Dee Bost over at SlamOnline.com in which the former Mississippi State point guard suggests the reason he's not projected to be selected in next month's NBA Draft is because he didn't play on national television enough.
Seriously.
"Playing at Mississippi State, we didn't play a lot of televised games or in front of a lot of people," Bost said. "I feel like I'm underrated. I just gotta get to workouts and prove that to everybody else."
I wish Bost knew how silly this sounds.
If NBA scouts can identify draftable prospects at Tennessee Tech (Kevin Murphy) and UC Santa Barbara (Orlando Johnson), they sure as hell know everything they need to know about somebody who played four years in the SEC. With all due respect, isn't it more likely that NBA people have seen Bost plenty and realized -- even without the benefit of 20 nationally televised games per year -- that he never posted a 2-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio, never shot better than 35 percent from 3-point range and doesn't seem to be much of a leader considering he let a talented team collapse down the stretch and stumble into the NIT?
I bet that's more of the problem for Bost.
A lack of nationally televised games?
Please.
Arnett Moultrie is a projected lottery pick, and I'm pretty sure he played the same amount of games on national TV as Bost because, you know, they were teammates in Starkville. Beyond that, the first point guard projected by most to come off the board is Damian Lillard, who played his entire college career in the Big Sky. And yet NBA scouts still somehow evaluated him just like they evaluated Kobe Bryant at Lower Merion High in Pennsylvania many years ago.
Bottom line, NBA scouts don't need to see you on television to appreciate you; they just need to know you're awesome. And the truth is that Bost, unfortunately for himself and former coach Rick Stansbury, was never awesome enough consistently enough in the ways that matter at the next level. So here we are.
