Wednesday, April 22, 2020

The Biggest Questions During This NFL Draft?



The NFL draft on Thursday will be unusual with the COVID-19 virus going on in the world. There will be a lot of issues that may arise throughout this draft. With the question marks with draft prospects, to just the issues with the internet that could happen this will be a must watch on Thursday night.

The biggest question mark of the night will be what will happen with Tua Tagovailoa. Tua has a lot of injury questions surrounding him, and with teams not being able to do physicals this could affect his draft. A team could potentially pull the trigger and take him early in the draft, the only problem is that if his career is filled with injuries than that GM will be fired. These GMs are fighting for their jobs, the amount of mistakes they can make in the NFL are less than in any other sport. In the NFL each season is valuable and tanking is typically not an option. There is potentially some teams that could fly their doctors out to meet Tua to give him a physical, but the odds of that story ever coming out is very slime. Every expert praises Tua, saying that he is as talented as any quarterback in this draft and if he didn't have these injury question marks he will be a surefire first overall pick. If Tua can stay healthy he might be the best player from this draft.

The other biggest question is the internet issues. In the mock run of the draft, they did experience some internet issues with teams that could make the draft last longer than expected. If a team experiences internet problems the pick won't just get skipped over, like how it did in 2003 to the Vikings. In 2003 the Vikings couldn't make a pick before the time expired, so they were forced to pick a later one and forgo it to the Jags, and then again to the Panther. Instead of picking 7th that year they went 9th.

This years NFL draft will be interesting to watch with the Tua storyline and the internet issues. Burrow will be the first overall pick and he will become a Bengal.

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

The Craziest Michael Jordan Story


Back in 2013, Michael Jordan's Hornets, back then they were called the Bobcats, finished the season at 21-61. The Bobcats finished 26th in the league and you'd figure there would be no real memorable moments from this team. Yet Michael Jordan proved he was still the greatest player of all time during this season. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist was a 19 year old rookie during this time, when a 49 year old Michael Jordan played him one on one. Kidd-Glichrist lost the game to Michael Jordan and said that "It was hard for me. I lost. He's the greatest that ever played the game." There's a 30 year age gap there between the two, thats like you playing against your 50 year old father and losing the game that shouldn't happen. Jordan has been retired for almost 10 years at that point and still managed to beat an NBA player.

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

The Weirdest NBA Draft Ever


When people talk about the weirdest NBA drafts to date they will bring up the awful 2000 draft or the 2013 draft when the Cavs picked Anthony Bennett first overall. But this years draft could shape to be the craziest, weirdest draft of all time. 

To just begin the season the top high school recruit in this years draft, James Wiseman, only played 3 games this year in college before decided to prepare for the draft. He had a suspension, due to the University of Memphis head coach Penny paying for him and his families moving expenses, which ultimately lead him to leave college. While other top recruits in LaMelo Ball and RJ Hampton decided to forgo college and playing overseas in Australia. LaMelo Ball also went ahead and bought his Australian Basketball Team. On top of all of this, the draft doesn't look that great with people comparing this draft to the 2013 draft, where the top players could go later on the draft. 

The actual evaluations of this draft just got harder since March Madness just got cancelled. Now we will see what scouts actually are doing their jobs vs the ones who just mail in the college season and wait till March Madness and the combine. Without March Madness now we won't be able to see how the top recruits will perform in the biggest games of their lives, seeing if they will fold under pressure or if they will thrive in under all the pressure.

The 2020 NBA draft will be remembered as the wildest, weirdest draft of all time. We will see mock drafts be busted and people fall or rise in the draft like we've never seen before. If this years draft has no fans in attendance, then some teams will most likely take more risks in this years draft. 

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