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Add to FavoritesLike most businesses today, the National Basketball Association is a business. All forms of developement is key to company growth. There are a numerous of possible needs and wants, that must be met in order to accomplish company goals. Thus and so forth, of course the NBA pre-draft camp workout is needed. Players may have excelled at the collegiate level, but may not match up to what a professional contract may ready for them. Certain teams may have particular positions to be filled and players would have to be match by their performances. There are a lot of jobs on the line when it comes to this decisions. The world on see the players on the court, but are never allowed behind to scenes to see the decision making processes.
Many player when all types of awards at the collegiate levels, but may not have exactly what it take to give the professional leagues what they need. These player are playing with their collegiate team mates and their collegiate opponents. Many of the professional players in the league already have a lot of experience they can only imagine until the door opening towards the grand prize. This grand pize would be a NBA contract.
What if the particular player does have what it take to play at the professional level? how would the coaches, the team, it's GM, and even the the player know which position is to be field on the court. Highlight films can only show past glories. A decision like this can only be made through real life situations. The pre-draft camp workout shows what this players is willing to bring to the league. Once he shows what he has on the table, the decision process should be either yes or no.
In conclusion, my vote is yes, the NBA pre-draft camp is both beneficial and neccessary to scouts. All fans and viewer's choice are only allowed to see what the media provides the public. A player can be the people's camp, but can he place professional stats in the books. The scouts and recruiters will need ever bit of information that can be givng to help make all these key decisions made in enlisting player in the Nba.
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Here is a sign of what may be wrong with the the NBA. Last week here is what was measured: the player's height, weight, wing span, jumping ability, agility and jumping ability. This workout is supposed to be another measure for scouts to consider which players scouts are going to select in the NBA draft. They also have reduced it from a week to a day I have a huge problem with this for several reasons.
They are the following:
1. It does not truly show how good each basketball player really is. While all of the traits I mentioned in the first paragraph are essential to being able to play they are far from what a scout really needs to be able to select a player. Imagine what would have happened if Larry Bird had to do that work out. If that was the first time a scout had ever seen Larry Bird he may never have played. The same with Kevin McHale and Robert Parish. This in itself is a sign of what may be wrong with the NBA. In the NBA today, there is way too much emphasis put on athletic ability and not enough put on fundamentals and actual basketball skills.
2. Since the camp is only one day long, basketball players can very easily do things to control what their height and weight is over the course of that day. In wrestling, wrestlers often create certain behaviors to ensure they are within a certain weight class. This gives basketball players the opportunity to do the same thing. Then for the rest of the year they can lay out and if they do then scouts may very well be ending up wasting a pick. That is unless you have monstrous expectations of what you will be able to do during your rookie year in the NBA.
3. Basketball is not all about height, weight or athletic ability. You could be the worst athlete in the world and be an unbelievable basketball player. Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish were the poster boys for this concept. Basketball is also about fundamentals and pure effort. During the 1980's that's how the Celtics won three championships and that's also a big part of how they won 11 championships in 13 years during the Russell-Cousy era.
Next year, I just hope that whoever it is that creates the basketball workouts will be able to come to their senses and put some more of the actual basketball skills back into the pre-draft workout camp.
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