Tsalmpouris not coming back

[HandSanitizer]

Thats why I said "consider me shocked" sarcastically. There is no way we didn't know he wasn't coming back 1 week before school starts. Doesn't work that way. Not trying to hate on the guy. Good look to him and I don't blame him.
But for people to think he was coming back after a coaching change, not being here all summer and the Carter pick up? Plus he is a guy that needed a summer workout program here in Ames more than anyone else on the team IMO.

 

[CTTB78]

Settle down. His head coach (Hoiberg), lead recruiter (Abdelmassih) and likely closest friend (Custer) are all gone and he was just home for the summer. Add those four things plus a professional career and it makes sense why he chose not to come back.

Add a fifth- he was going to ride the bench at Iowa State.

 

[CysRage]

Settle down. His head coach (Hoiberg), lead recruiter (Abdelmassih) and likely closest friend (Custer) are all gone and he was just home for the summer. Add those four things plus a professional career and it makes sense why he chose not to come back.

Don't assume that just because the tweet just came out that Prohm didn't know a long time ago.

This and this. The whole team may have known for a while. It was all but assumed he wasn't coming back when Hoiberg left.

 

[Fanatic1973]

No great loss. He didn't really want to be here and was homesick. We will accomplish great things even though he is gone.

 

[4theCYcle]

I loved the kid but it appears he left us hanging for months. I don't live in a consequence- free world like some people. in the working world you're asked to not come back

Congratulations, you have a job. We are talking about a 17-18 year old foreign kid who had several factors to consider. I'm sure you've made all your life decisions in timely/similar manner.

 

[Frak]

Just from watching periscope, Stuart Nezlek is more than capable of replacing those 11 points. He moves just as well defensively (which is, not very well), probably rebounds better than Tsalmpouris. Of course he doesn't have the outside shot or ball handling. But then he's not using a scholarship either.

I think that this decision is good for both parties. He was a good teamate and a good practice player last year. But the first time I saw him, I just thought that he had SO FAR to go both body-wise and skill-wise to be anything more than a defensive liability and a big that just sits on the perimeter chucking threes. Good luck to the kid, but we need guys that are going to help us in 16-17 and I don't know that GT would.

 

[IAStubborn]

I agree that GT was always assumed to not be back, but we would have signed Carter regardless. Tsalboris was never going to give you what you need in the low post.

All of you basketball experts that think he never would play here amazing you know more than Fred and the nba scout that tipped him and the pro team that just signed him. Yes he looked different than most big 12 players but so do most 7'1 players when they are 18 and many alway look funny but still are productive in the league.

 

[CyberJJJ]

Certainly can't blame him, but I was hoping he would hang around long enough to contribute to the team. Best wishes to him!

He already contributed, all last year in practice.

 

[DSMCy]

Just confirmed by the MBB twitter account.

 

[clonedude]

He was a huge project. I'm confident we can replace him with someone better.

In other words, I'd rather have the open scholly.

 

[kingcy]

All of you basketball experts that think he never would play here amazing you know more than Fred and the nba scout that tipped him and the pro team that just signed him. Yes he looked different than most big 12 players but so do most 7'1 players when they are 18 and many alway look funny but still are productive in the league.

CFH took him in as a project. Turns out he was a huge project. If you need to work on your game as much as he did you need to spend the summer on campus working on it. He chose not to.

 

[Dandy]

@CycloneMBB: Tsalmpouris Turning Pro http://t.co/azAib8ozJE http://t.co/7ouglv6FMR

 

[Dandy]

@AlexHalsted: Iowa State confirms that Georgios Tsalmpouris is turning pro. The #Cyclones now have an open scholarship for 2015-16.

 

[CyCloned]

Good luck to him I guess. The only problem I have with the whole thing is, if you are not going to come back, then tell ISU 6 months ago, so they can do something to replace you.

 

[keepngoal]

Good luck to him I guess. The only problem I have with the whole thing is, if you are not going to come back, then tell ISU 6 months ago, so they can do something to replace you.

Yet, we would love a late pickup in the transfer area from a kid that left another school "hanging" for six months.

 

[WastedTalent]

Good luck to him I guess. The only problem I have with the whole thing is, if you are not going to come back, then tell ISU 6 months ago, so they can do something to replace you.

They did. They got Carter. They had more than just his scholarship available. I highly doubt Prohm felt handcuffed by the lack of official decision from GT.

 

[GTO]

 

[jahfg]

we let some gangly 7' 18yr old Euro hold ISU mbb hostage for 6 months

his parents are probably losing their pensions over in that socialist country

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I loved the kid but it appears he left us hanging for months. I don't live in a consequence- free world like some people. in the working world you're asked to not come back

These are just bizarre posts. So you're projecting your liberal hate on a 19-year-old that was born in Greece, came to America, worked his *** off, stayed out of trouble and decided that a professional career in his home country was a better situation for him?

That's pathetic.

"I don't live in a consequence-free world" might be the funniest sentence posted on this board in awhile.

 

[JM4CY]

These are just bizarre posts. So you're projecting your liberal hate on a 19-year-old that was born in Greece, came to America, worked his *** off, stayed out of trouble and decided that a professional career in his home country was a better situation for him?

That's pathetic.

"I don't live in a consequence-free world" might be the funniest sentence posted on this board in awhile.

Free birth control for all!!

 

[DeereClone]

Hopefully it all turns out well for him. Can't blame a kid for wanting to go home and play "pro" ball.

I never got the hype, and I was never on the bandwagon, but he was a good kid who did all the right things, and that's more important than basketball.