Zeke Nnaji

Beachcat97 · Post by **Beachcat97** » Tue Feb 18, 2020 5:50 pm

Bordercat wrote:Isaiah Stewart is overrated.

A lot of the mock drafts agree with you.

Captain Obvious · Post by **Captain Obvious** » Tue Feb 18, 2020 6:12 pm

Beachcat97 wrote:It's a good FOY race, but I think Stewart is probably leading at this point.

I think Nnaji will end up winning FOY. He will keep improving. I believe Green will as well. Mannion has me scratching my head at this point. Just not impressed at all.

Beachcat97 · Post by **Beachcat97** » Tue Feb 18, 2020 6:24 pm

Captain Obvious wrote:
Beachcat97 wrote:It's a good FOY race, but I think Stewart is probably leading at this point.
I think Nnaji will end up winning FOY. He will keep improving. I believe Green will as well. Mannion has me scratching my head at this point. Just not impressed at all.

Up to this point, Nico hasn't had the impact many were anticipating. Like, you could put together a highlight reel of his best moments from this season, and he'd look pretty impressive. But it feels like the head-scratching moments outnumber the highlights at the moment. Still time for him to turn it around, though.

Captain Obvious · Post by **Captain Obvious** » Tue Feb 18, 2020 7:25 pm

Beachcat97 wrote:
Captain Obvious wrote:
Beachcat97 wrote:It's a good FOY race, but I think Stewart is probably leading at this point.
I think Nnaji will end up winning FOY. He will keep improving. I believe Green will as well. Mannion has me scratching my head at this point. Just not impressed at all.
Up to this point, Nico hasn't had the impact many were anticipating. Like, you could put together a highlight reel of his best moments from this season, and he'd look pretty impressive. But it feels like the head-scratching moments outnumber the highlights at the moment. Still time for him to turn it around, though.

I do agree that Nico can still turn it on. I can admit I'm being too critical. I really like the young man and he's had some great moments. The best is yet to come. Let's hope it lasts well into the NCAA tournament. We're way overdue for some good luck.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 12:24 pm

Congrats to Zeke for winning PAC-12 Freshman of the Year!

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 12:27 pm

For play in the key or on the keyboard?

eoe · Post by **eoe** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 12:54 pm

dovecanyoncat wrote:For play in the key or on the keyboard?

I, for one, would not be upset if we were subjected to hearing about Zeke's piano skills ad nauseam (6 times to be exact) during the NCAA tourney broadcasts

Beachcat97 · Post by **Beachcat97** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 2:05 pm

Chicat wrote:Congrats to Zeke for winning PAC-12 Freshman of the Year!

He is also the MVP of this team, imo.

97cats · Post by **97cats** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 9:40 pm

just might be the best of the bunch

enfuego · Post by **enfuego** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 9:45 pm

Chicat wrote:Congrats to Zeke for winning PAC-12 Freshman of the Year!

Money well earned for the near lock to Kansas.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 9:49 pm

enfuego wrote:
Chicat wrote:Congrats to Zeke for winning PAC-12 Freshman of the Year!
Money well earned for the near lock to Kansas.

Self cheaped out, huh? Takes a lot of money to get kids to play in that festering pimple of a state.

enfuego · Post by **enfuego** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 9:57 pm

Chicat wrote:
enfuego wrote:
Chicat wrote:Congrats to Zeke for winning PAC-12 Freshman of the Year!
Money well earned for the near lock to Kansas.
Self cheaped out, huh? Takes a lot of money to get kids to play in that festering pimple of a state.

UA is in Tucson.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 10:02 pm

enfuego wrote:
Chicat wrote:
enfuego wrote:
Chicat wrote:Congrats to Zeke for winning PAC-12 Freshman of the Year!
Money well earned for the near lock to Kansas.
Self cheaped out, huh? Takes a lot of money to get kids to play in that festering pimple of a state.
UA is in Tucson.

enfuego is in south Scottsdale.

enfuego · Post by **enfuego** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 10:04 pm

Longhorned wrote:
enfuego wrote:
Chicat wrote:
enfuego wrote:
Chicat wrote:Congrats to Zeke for winning PAC-12 Freshman of the Year!
Money well earned for the near lock to Kansas.
Self cheaped out, huh? Takes a lot of money to get kids to play in that festering pimple of a state.
UA is in Tucson.
enfuego is in south Scottsdale.

Lol. North Scottsdale.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 10:05 pm

enfuego wrote:
Lol. North Scottsdale.

Oh, so sorry. Enjoy that cultural mecca.

Goes nice with a degree from Kansas.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 10:14 pm

Longhorned wrote:
enfuego wrote:
Lol. North Scottsdale.
Oh, so sorry. Enjoy that cultural mecca. Goes nice with a degree from Kansas.

Anymore the idea that anyone from the Phoenix area somehow thinks they are superior to Tucson is just laughable to its core. The "but you live in Tucson" thing is a like 20 years out of date "slur" that has no basis in the reality of how nice of a place Tucson is to live.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 10:22 pm

ASUHATER! wrote:
Longhorned wrote:
enfuego wrote:
Lol. North Scottsdale.
Oh, so sorry. Enjoy that cultural mecca. Goes nice with a degree from Kansas.
Anymore the idea that anyone from the Phoenix area somehow thinks they are superior to Tucson is just laughable to its core. The "but you live in Tucson" thing is a like 20 years out of date "slur" that has no basis in the reality of how nice of a place Tucson is to live.

It’s revealingly typical, peoplephobic, white flight shallowness.

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 10:35 pm

Longhorned wrote:
ASUHATER! wrote:
Longhorned wrote:
enfuego wrote:
Lol. North Scottsdale.
Oh, so sorry. Enjoy that cultural mecca. Goes nice with a degree from Kansas.
Anymore the idea that anyone from the Phoenix area somehow thinks they are superior to Tucson is just laughable to its core. The "but you live in Tucson" thing is a like 20 years out of date "slur" that has no basis in the reality of how nice of a place Tucson is to live.
It’s revealingly typical, peoplephobic, white flight shallowness.

Amid the brown air of that wretched valley. How far north in Scottsdale do you go before your lungs say OK this'll do? Desert Mtn. Phase 3? FFS, people must swallow furnace filters to live in that hell hole.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:30 am

dovecanyoncat wrote:
Longhorned wrote:
ASUHATER! wrote:
Longhorned wrote:
enfuego wrote:
Lol. North Scottsdale.
Oh, so sorry. Enjoy that cultural mecca. Goes nice with a degree from Kansas.
Anymore the idea that anyone from the Phoenix area somehow thinks they are superior to Tucson is just laughable to its core. The "but you live in Tucson" thing is a like 20 years out of date "slur" that has no basis in the reality of how nice of a place Tucson is to live.
It’s revealingly typical, peoplephobic, white flight shallowness.
Amid the brown air of that wretched valley. How far north in Scottsdale do you go before your lungs say OK this'll do? Desert Mtn. Phase 3? FFS, people must swallow furnace filters to live in that hell hole.

How perfect is it that the unwelcome, socially-maladjusted troll lives in a gated community, and all anyone had to do to get that out of him is hurt his class pride with the suggestion of "south Scottsdale"?

enfuego · Post by **enfuego** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 12:54 pm

Longhorned wrote:
enfuego wrote:
Lol. North Scottsdale.

How perfect is it that the unwelcome, socially-maladjusted troll lives in a gated community, and all anyone had to do to get that out of him is hurt his class pride with the suggestion of "south Scottsdale"?

I've always said I am willing to meet up with you for a few beers to catch a game.

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 1:14 pm

Lol at people thinking north Scottsdale as elite.

It’s the same a yoga pantsed Botox moms thinking Kierland Commons as high end shopping.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 4:12 pm

Need to start a GoFundMe page to get Nnaji back next year.

enfuego · Post by **enfuego** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 7:53 pm

CalStateTempe wrote:Lol at people thinking north Scottsdale as elite.

It’s the same a yoga pantsed Botox moms thinking Kierland Commons as high end shopping.

Who hurt you as a child?

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:03 pm

enfuego wrote:
CalStateTempe wrote:Lol at people thinking north Scottsdale as elite.

It’s the same a yoga pantsed Botox moms thinking Kierland Commons as high end shopping.

Who hurt you as a child?

Maybe you. The overlap between internet trolls and molesters is clear. Neither puts their fingers where they belong.

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:04 pm

Longhorned wrote:
enfuego wrote:
CalStateTempe wrote:Lol at people thinking north Scottsdale as elite.

It’s the same a yoga pantsed Botox moms thinking Kierland Commons as high end shopping.

Who hurt you as a child?
Maybe you. The overlap between internet trolls and molesters is clear. Neither puts their fingers where they belong.

You think he types with his finger?

RondaeShimmy · Post by **RondaeShimmy** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:22 am

Beachcat97 · Post by **Beachcat97** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:33 am

Good luck, Zeke!

Oh, and can we start recruiting more guys who aspire to have their jersey retired at McKale? And fewer guys who see a second year of college as a waste of time.

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:42 am

The quicker we can get to the old rule of going league from high school the better we and both products will be. I had heardZeke never really wanted to go to school in the first place but had no other choice. He gave us a great year so go get yours kid.

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:07 pm

Such a legacy these 3 freshmen are leaving.

Postmaster · Post by **Postmaster** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:19 pm

It makes I hard to get excited for next season.

I still like the baseball model

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:23 pm

Pit stop

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 1:00 pm

ChooChooCat wrote:Such a legacy these 3 freshmen are leaving.

Not really their fault the season ended the way it did. Had they led us to a Pac-12 tourney championship and a Final Four the same thing could have been said minus the soaked-in sarcasm.

Frybry02 · Post by **Frybry02** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:50 pm

Disappointing but I would probably do the same if I was in his position

I am disappointed because I kept dreaming of a Dwill type sophomore season

Dwill
Frosh 15.7 pts, 57 fg%, 7.1 REB
Soph 19.5 pts, 60 fg%, 8.3 REB (not to mention his vastly improved 3p%)

Nnaji
Frosh 16.1 pts, 57fg%, 8.6 REB
Soph

gronk4heisman · Post by **gronk4heisman** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:18 am

Frybry02 wrote:Disappointing but I would probably do the same if I was in his position

I am disappointed because I kept dreaming of a Dwill type sophomore season

Dwill
Frosh 15.7 pts, 57 fg%, 7.1 REB
Soph 19.5 pts, 60 fg%, 8.3 REB (not to mention his vastly improved 3p%)

Nnaji
Frosh 16.1 pts, 57fg%, 8.6 REB
Soph

D Will also probably made himself an extra $20M by coming back his Sophomore year when he could have been a late first rounder after his Freshman year. But that was a different time...

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 10:19 am

By coming back Dwill played himself right into the second pick of the draft and he still wasn’t ready defensively. Crazy guidance these days

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 10:55 am

I'd like to see all high school NBA prospects go straight to the G-League if they aren't already Moses Malone/Darryl Dawkins/Kobe/LeBron-style NBA-ready. College basketball needs to be about developing players for individual systems over years of continuity. If any of those players become future NBA players in the process, so be it. This idea that college basketball will have Magic Johnsons and Larry Birds and Michael Jordans and Charles Barkleys and Shaqs is what ruins college basketball.

midnightx · Post by **midnightx** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 1:08 pm

gronk4heisman wrote: D Will also probably made himself an extra $20M by coming back his Sophomore year when he could have been a late first rounder after his Freshman year. But that was a different time...

azcat49 wrote:By coming back Dwill played himself right into the second pick of the draft and he still wasn’t ready defensively. Crazy guidance these days

All true. But the reality is it appears Zeke never really wanted to play college basketball; had he been able to go straight to the NBA out of high school, that likely would have been his decision. He clearly is not ready to play NBA basketball, but he is a good prospect. And while he will make some money by going into the draft now, if he were to come back to AZ, he would be the offensive focal point and likely increase his stock, which would make him significantly more money right at the beginning of his NBA journey.

The NBA draft really has been more like the MLB draft over the past 20+ years, where teams often draft prospects, rather than ready-to-play players. Some guys are ready to contribute right away, but most are not.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 1:28 pm

Longhorned wrote:I'd like to see all high school NBA prospects go straight to the G-League if they aren't already Moses Malone/Darryl Dawkins/Kobe/LeBron-style NBA-ready. College basketball needs to be about developing players for individual systems over years of continuity. If any of those players become future NBA players in the process, so be it. This idea that college basketball will have Magic Johnsons and Larry Birds and Michael Jordans and Charles Barkleys and Shaqs is what ruins college basketball.

Would be nice if the NBA and NCAA would work on this now that their seasons are over. With the G-League now, it's no longer the case where a NBA team would take a flyer on a player like Ebi Ndudi in the first round, but who failed miserably in the NBA but had a guaranteed contract for 3 years and just sat on the end of the bench for his career.

SabinoDrifter · Post by **SabinoDrifter** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 3:05 pm

The Athletic NBA draft guy (Sam Vecenie) came out with his updated big board. Nnaji is 28, Mannion 29 and Green 33. So much for three lottery picks in the starting 5!

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