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May 23, 2007

Good News for Gray, Bad for Pitt

Filed under: Alumni,Basketball,Big East,Conference,Draft,Good,Opponent(s) — Chas @ 2:34 pm

Reports are that Roy Hibbert will announce this afternoon that he is returning to Georgetown for another season (and possibly Jeff Green as well). If Hibbert returns, the Hoyas will be the strong favorites to win the Big East in 2008 (and if Green returns as well, they will be favored to win the whole thing).

Obviously, this is not great news for Pitt and the other teams in the Big East that would face Georgetown.

For Aaron Gray and every other center in the NBA draft not named Greg Oden, this is very good news. Spencer Hawes (from Washington) becomes the clear #2 Center in the draft.

Aaron Gray suddenly gets vaulted back into the discussion as being among the 3d best center prospects in the draft. His competition are a couple Euro players (Marc Gasol [Spain, and yes, Pau Gasol’s little brother] and Ante Tomic [Croatia]), the troubled Sean Williams — who managed to actually be kicked off the team for good by Al Skinner at BC — and the injury prone DeVon Hardin of Cal.

Yep, if Hibbert stays at Georgetown, Aaron Gray should send him a thank you card.




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Hibbert announced he is staying, but Green is going. Without Green, G-Town is beatable, with him they would have been incredible. One out of two ain’t bad for Pitt.

Comment by Crackbaldo 05.23.07 @ 5:10 pm

I really don’t understand Hibbert and his advisor’s thinking on this decision. He should have learned from Aaron Gray and stayed in the draft. He isn’t a talented enough athlete to get into the top-5. Even with a great season he is, at best, in the bottom half of the top-10. If he has a bad year then he could go in the late teens or early twenties. Not a smart move. The center position is not nearly as important as it used to be in the NBA. Even if it was, Hibbert isn’t athletic enough to be a real star. Bad, bad move.

Comment by Omar 05.23.07 @ 5:33 pm

Hibbert isn’t as bad as Gray, so he should still get drafted next year. He has the size and he isn’t athletically challenged like Gray. I would be totally shocked if any team wastes a draft pick on Aaron Gray.

Comment by C 05.23.07 @ 7:26 pm

Hibbert is definitely more athletic than Gray and that is not something to be happy about. Gray was so unathletic that it was difficult to watch him play. Hibbert is more of an athlete, but one thing you can’t improve in a year, maybe ever, is athleticism. That is what is keeping him from being a top-5 pick and it isn’t going to change. Pick 5-15 is as good as it gets for Hibbert. All he can do is hurt himself. If his desire is to win a championship at Georgetown, then he made the right decision. If he truly believes he will be a higher pick next year, then he made a big mistake.

Comment by Omar 05.23.07 @ 7:50 pm

Did you guys see at the bottom of the ESPN article that David Cox got hired as the new assistant coach for G-Town?

Comment by Tdemps 05.23.07 @ 8:13 pm

Yeah, I just saw that David Cox is now at Georgetown. Any word yet who is going to replace him as Director of Operations? I don’t think that Brandon Knight is ready for that position just yet.

Comment by C 05.23.07 @ 9:38 pm

Georgetown will be ranked in the top 3 in the country.

Comment by fred 05.27.07 @ 4:13 pm

[…] Orlando went well enough for Aaron Gray that he likely will be drafted before the end of the 1st round. What will likely help Gray to be considered the 3d best college Center prospect is the withdrawal of Hibbert and two other Center prospects who bailed on Orlando (ESPN Insider subs.). Reasons weren’t given but the feeling among teams is that all of the players were advised not to play for fear that it would unnecessarily hurt their status. BC’s Jared Dudley was surprised that Williams wasn’t here Tuesday after he said [Sean] Williams had texted him to say he was coming. So Dudley said he figured that Williams was told not to come by his representation. Hardin is the only player on this list that hasn’t signed with an agent. Cal’s staff claims that [DeVon] Hardin will return to the Bears unless he were assured that he is in the top 20. Currently, he is not projected to go that high. Hardin has been nursing multiple injuries the past two seasons. […]

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