Memo to Plaisted: Do not go Pro yet!!!
 

I don't understand how people think Plaisted will be a lottery pick in the NBA. At this point in his college career he isn't no Araujo and we know how he did in the NBA. Now don't get me wrong, I do think Plaisted is a great college player but he is not NBA material. His game is more adept to European ball than NBA ball.

For NBA scouts to really drool over Plaisted, they would need to see him be able to take it out 15 feet and hit that shot on a consistant basis. I don't think Plaisted has that kind of range, and if he does he hasn't shown it yet. If he were to leave for the NBA after this year he would be a 2nd round pick... maybe.

He needs to work on his outside game to compliment his inside game because he will need both in the NBA.

Your Avatar is offensive. I'm sure you wouldn't appreciate it if someone had an avatar with side-by-side pictures of Gordon B. Hinkley and Yoda.

I recognize Gollum.

Who is the other dude?

My Memo to Plaisted, go pro.

My memo to Luke Nevill, go back to Australia.

Plaisted could work himself into the first round, where the money is guaranteed after 2009, but this year the best he gets is second round, with no guarantee.

Stay in school.

Nevill go pro in Australia.

That would be factually incorrect. The correct side by side picture should be Spencer W. Kimball and Yoda. We all know that! If you are offended by my picture, then you should send a note to Cougarboard and have me banned there.... Oh, wait, I am.

Plaisted should stick around longer so that the scouts can discover his complete lack of mid range skills? If he is in anyway a lock to go first round which he just might be (based on athletic ability alone) he should go immediately to the draft. Ask Josh McRoberts about that one.

Josh McRoberts?

How about asking Shawn Bradley if he made the right decision. He's got millions of yes answers.

If he is a lock to go in the first round, I would go as well. My point is, I don't see him as a first round lock and I doubt many of the scouts do as well. Most of the hype is coming from the press about Plaisted not from anybody that really is in the know. I just don't want Plaisted taking the bad advice which is out there and thinking that he is better than he is. He still has some serious growth but people in and around Provo don't see it.

Hansbrough might not even be a 1st round pick and that guy is an all american. He will not be able to do anything in the NBA because he doesn't have the mid range game and doesn't play long the post. There is a reason why he hasn't left early because in today's NBA, teams draft based on upside, see the influx of crappy Europeans that were supposedly great but can't handle the physicality of the NBA. What about Tyrus Thomas? Dude can leap out of the gym but has no offensive game.

BYU doesnt have a great history with big men in the NBA.

Bradley, Smith, Kite, Araujo.