Ripped from the posts and comments of the last week or so, a piece on Carl Krauser and the possibility that he might turn pro.
The 6-foot-2 Krauser, who is Pitt’s leading scorer at 15.9 points per game, will be faced with some tough decisions regarding his NBA future after the season. He has the option of playing one more year at Pitt or testing the waters of the NBA.
He said he hasn’t made a choice at this point, though he acknowledged that he is on pace to graduate and would be eligible for his senior year. As a partial qualifier, Krauser was required to sit out his freshman year. He is also required to graduate in four years to be eligible for a fifth.
Krauser admits freely that he wants to play pro-basketball. Not a surprise. There is also the issue of his age. He will be 25 next season. Still, he’s a mostly unknown quantity to the NBA.
According to one NBA scout, who did not want to be identified, Krauser should compete in pre-draft camps this summer and, if nothing else, get more name recognition, just like Nate Robinson of the University of Washington did last year. Robinson returned to school, but is known throughout the NBA and is listed as a 32nd overall pick by NBAdraft.net.
Krauser might also consider working out with some NBA teams this summer. He is permitted to do so, but must reimburse those teams for all expenses incurred if he chooses to come back to Pitt. Senior guard Chris Thomas of Notre Dame did that a year ago.
Right now, I just don’t see how he goes pro after this season. The article misses the most obvious factor mitigating against him going. This year’s draft will be absolutely packed with point guards. Krauser would have no shot of being drafted with the sheer numbers.
Gene Collier took his time and got out a piece on the St. John’s-Pitt game.
Pitt and St. John’s staged this “event,” a term also used in nuclear power plant accidents by the way, and nobody who found themselves an eyewitness will soon forget it, no matter how often it got described in the immediate aftermath as forgettable.
Greg Gattuso, just added to Dave Wannstedt’s Pitt football staff after his dazzling success at Duquesne, sat behind the baseline and somehow refrained from rubbing his eyes. Surely, he thought he had dragged this across town from the A.J. Palumbo Center For Costly Turnovers.
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In a matchup of storied programs from a storied conference, the basic story went something like this: St. John’s missed nine of its first 10 shots, but by halftime, settled down to miss only 29 of its first 35.“I thought we did some good things at the end of the first half,” said St. John’s coach Norm Roberts.
Honest to God.
I’m guessing he meant that of the 14 St. John’s players in uniform, every single one went to the correct locker room for the intermission.
And on a night when St. John’s would end up shooting 28 percent from the floor, Pitt still managed to commit 16 personal fouls. What, do you imagine, is the purpose of fouling a St. John’s shooter? It’s only going to increase his percentage.
Amusing enough.
