wish bubu could play
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If I remember right BuBu was voted mvp of the league over what included some very good Cyclone players. Some can make fun of him all they want, but he was a key player on maybe the best Iowa high school team in state history and was on his way to becoming a key contributor for the Clones. Now he's playing in the D-league, a step below the NBA. How many of us that played and love basketball wouldn't drool over what he's experienced on the hardwood.
If Bubu hadn't switched with Niang at the end of the Ohio State game . . . he might have stayed closer on defense . . . gotten a hand in Aaron Craft's face . . . and the shot might not have ever happened . . . and . . . never mind.
I don't know what the money difference is, maybe it's a lot and I'm guessing it depends mostly on the level of the player. But I'm sure there are a number of other reasons American players would prefer to stay in the states if they can continue to play professionally, family no doubt at the top for a lot of players.
On the court at least (and I do want to stress strictly on the court), I'll never understand the hate that a very vocal minority of Cyclone basketball fans had for Bubu. It's almost as if those fans lacked the emotional maturity/intelligence to get over their hang-ups that a walk-on was playing ahead of scholarship guards in the rotation, and therefore he was a "chemistry killer", "overrated", the coaches didn't know what they were doing, etc. The whole hatred of Bubu the basketball player (again, on the court only) was one of the more stupid and absurd things I've ever seen on this site.
The most you can make in the nbdl is $25,000 and that's a tier 1 player. A majority of players only make $13-18,000.
I'm sure he would have been a solid contributor his senior season, but let's not act like he didn't have some glaring faults, and let's not forget the strides that monte made in the off season.i don't think bubu would have contributed as much in conference play as he would have started off the beginning of the year.
Wait a minute...are you really telling me that a walk-on player had some faults in his game and wasn't the Second Coming of LeBron James? No way....
Every player, whether on scholarship or not, is going to have some flaws in their games, and walk-ons will usually have more then scholarship players, which is why, you know, they're walk-ons. The unfair thing with Bubu is that the haters would continually scream about his shortcomings while either ignoring or downplaying the good things he brought on the court, which they didn't seem to do with scholarship players. Again, there was almost a complete refusal to recognize anything positive that he brought to the team/program.
I do agree with you about Monte most likely pushing him farther down the bench once conference season started a couple of seasons ago.
I don't think many actually hate him. We're just ready for the black eye we took for it to finally go away and stop resurfacing multiple times per year several years after it occurred.
Stretch an argument much? I never said or implied he should be this apparent second coming of Lebron James.
if being nervous every time bubu had the ball in his hands or drove to the basket makes me a hater, so be it.
Thats not true... The average wnba salary is $72,000. League minimum $35,000.
And and that has absolutely nothing to do with this.
Damages? Without getting into the merits of the case or whether he should win or not I will say that you are grossly underestimating the damage this case has had on him. The guy was a 4.0 student and would have attracted a decent job with his golden boy image in Iowa. Now the D-league may be the best job he can get. You are defining damage to only his basketball career this goes beyond that.
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No, you never did imply that he should have been the next LBJ, just as I never implied that he was without fault or gaps in his game on the court in my original defense of him.
BuBu was a kid who loved ISU enough to walk on instead of taking money to play elsewhere, he raised the team gpa, and worked hard to the point to where he would likely have started out the year as a starter (even if he and Monte may have flip-flopped the starter/backup slots as the year went on). Nobody but two people know what really happened, but the charges were dropped for good reason and it's innocent until proven guilty in our country. If it was George or Monte in BuBu's position, I'm sure they would have 100% support on this board (and likely would never have been kicked off the first time and definitely not the 2nd time).
I would like to add this. Most posters seem to forget that Bubu did not major in African American Studies in college. He received a BS degree in Finance. If money was his motivation I am sure he could earn more than $25000 with a finance degree from ISU.
