PF Jared Sullinger (2x 1st Team ALL B1G & All American, Anyang KGC, S.Korea)

[Buckskin86]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujCqdtgPtM4"]Where Does Jared Sullinger Fall In The Draft? - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Buckskin86]

Prospect Profile- NBA.com

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_7rVa_Buv4"]Player Profile: Jared Sullinger - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Buckskin86]

From clear to cloudy
Back problems, poor showing at combine change the forecast for Sullinger at NBA draft
By Bob Baptist
The Columbus Dispatch Sunday June 24, 2012

BROOKE LaVALLEY | Dispatch
Many mock drafts no longer have Jared Sullinger as a top-14 pick.
Neal C. Lauron | DISPATCH

He averaged about the same number of points, rebounds and minutes as he did as a freshman. He was a first-team All-American for the second year in a row. He helped Ohio State gain a share of another Big Ten championship and go two steps further in the postseason, to the Final Four.

Yet, at times, Jared Sullinger just didn?t look the same last season. After he suffered back spasms following a win over Duke in late November and missed two games, his ability to move around the basket seemed compromised at times. Granted, he attracted more defenders without a reliable perimeter shooter like Jon Diebler to distract them. Still, he seemed to labor in the lane.

Nearly three months since he ended his college career, Sullinger still is an enigma ? maybe the biggest in the NBA draft on Thursday night.

It?s old hat to him, his parents and his older brothers, who say Jared has made a habit of proving his detractors wrong since he was the fat kid at Monroe Middle School who had trouble keeping up with everyone else on the court.

?The bottom line,? said his father, Satch, ?is that wherever he goes, he?s going to be a hidden jewel.?

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http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/stories/2012/06/24/from-clear-to-cloudy.html

 

[Buckskin86]

Bob Hunter commentary: Sullinger?s frustration is evident
By Bob Hunter
The Columbus Dispatch Monday June 25, 2012

It?s not easy to watch the NBA.com video of Jared Sullinger?s interview with the media after a workout for the Toronto Raptors.

The former Ohio State star always has achieved near-record scores on the nice-guy meter, always has been able to disarm his critics by joking with them or ignoring them entirely. Yet there he was in Canada, demeaning questioners and analysts twice in a two-minute interview for never having played basketball, the threadbare fallback answer prickly professional athletes use when somebody criticizes them.

This is not a role the easygoing Sullinger is suited for, even though it?s not hard to see how he has gotten there. Reports from across the NBA say that his draft stock is falling, that he is no longer a lottery pick and might even fall to the second round because of an ESPN report that NBA doctors are troubled by his bad back.

So a reporter asks him if he feels reports of his stock slipping put more ?pressure? on him to perform during these workout sessions ? a reasonable question under the circumstances. Sullinger says no, but his demeanor says yes.

?Not really,? he says. ?I mean, no offense, but most of you guys never played basketball, so what can they say? It is what it is. I support it because from day one I?ve been the underdog. It?s life. So I like it.

?Keep letting me slip; I don?t mind.?

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http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/stories/2012/06/25/sullingers-frustration-is-evident.html

Jared Sullinger not invited to draft
Updated: June 25, 2012
By Andy Katz | ESPN.com

Former Ohio State star and two-time all-American Jared Sullinger will watch the NBA draft inside a Columbus restaurant, not in the green room in Newark's Prudential Center, after the NBA declined to invite him to Thursday's draft.

NBA executive vice president Stu Jackson told ESPN.com that Sullinger would not be invited based on the reports the league had received that Sullinger wouldn't be selected in the top 15.

"He's more likely to go in the teens or in the 20s," Jackson said. "We continue to have contact with teams, but at this late date we don't anticipate inviting him."

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http://espn.go.com/nba/draft2012/st...cketes-star-jared-sullinger-not-invited-draft

 

[Buckskin86]

Former Ohio State player has no regrets on staying in college
Sullinger's NBA stock plummets from a year ago
By Tom Davis of The News-Sentinel
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

CHICAGO - Life is a gamble ? even for All-Americans.

Jared Sullinger can talk about that, but the former Ohio State men's basketball standout isn't defensive about having taken a chance professionally a year ago and seen his decision not work out so well.

The 6-foot-9 forward was projected by many as a sure-fire NBA Lottery selection following his freshman season in Columbus in 2011. There was even talk of his being the top selection overall. Fast-forward to today and Sullinger is being left out ? to a degree ? by those same NBA scouts.

On Monday it was announced that Sullinger would not be among the select few NBA Draft-eligible players invited to sit in the famed ?Green Room? backstage at the draft, which most assuredly means a later selection. But he isn't looking back with regret.

?It helped me out big time,? Sullinger said of staying in college for his sophomore season. ?The maturity, my focus, there are certain things that I didn't do my freshman year that I learned how to do my sophomore year.?

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http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120626/SPORTS/120629713/1002

New tests await Sullinger
June 25, 2012

Jared Sullinger's public response to Monday's news that he won't be invited to Thursday night's NBA Draft was to change his Twitter avatar to the cartoon character "Underdog."

It's a sign of the times. Reports have surfaced that NBA team doctors medically red-flagged Sullinger in recent weeks, sighting back issues for the 6-foot-9 power forward, who lost around 20 pounds last summer and played his final college season in the neighborhood of 265-270 pounds.

All Sullinger can do now is wait. It would be in his best interest to wait quietly, away from television cameras and Twitter, and make his next public statement one of thanks to the team that ends up selecting him on Thursday night.

A player who averaged 17.3 points and 9.7 rebounds in 74 career college games can then tell his new bosses they got a steal, and there's a good chance he'll eventually be right.

There's something on those NBA medical reports that's making teams hesitate. It's not known exactly what those reports say, or how severe that injury may be. It's likely that a combination of those health concerns and questions about his overall athleticism have folks at the NBA office believing Sullinger will be drafted outside the lottery. This is why he didn't receive an invitation to the draft's "green room."

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9vBN3ALkGY"]Jared Sullinger on NBA Draft - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ucfknight]

Not really surprising, but still a concerning issue for Jared leading up to the draft.



At least maybe he drops to a better organization at this point???

falling lower in the first round may help Jared. This way he can get on a good team cough *Mavericks* cough and not have the expectations he would have had as a top 10 pick. He can develop better without being labeled a bust. I'm not a Buckeye fan, but I like Jared as a player and thin he could be a good piece on a playoff team.

 

[PlanetFrnd]

falling lower in the first round may help Jared. This way he can get on a good team cough *Mavericks* cough and not have the expectations he would have had as a top 10 pick. He can develop better without being labeled a bust. I'm not a Buckeye fan, but I like Jared as a player and thin he could be a good piece on a playoff team.

Me reading this post...

 

[Buckskin86]

Posted: Wednesday June 27, 2012
Michael Rosenberg>INSIDE THE NBA
In a draft with many questions, Jared Sullinger is worth the risk

This NBA draft is so crazy that the only sure pick is the first one. Teams may package and re-package picks all night. The Pacers' new, manic general manager, Kevin Pritchard is a heavy favorite to make a trade with himself, and in between the 15th and 16th picks, Isiah Thomas will draft somebody, just because he is Isiah and he does things that don't make any sense.

Five years from now, when Anthony Davis is so popular that people will get unibrow tattoos over their noses, we can make some sense of this draft. In the meantime, it's chaos. And that brings us to my favorite part of the NBA draft every year: watching general managers take players whom they don't even like all that much.

In the NBA general manager's world, you can teach a beautiful woman to be nice, but you can't make a nice girl better-looking. They often go for size and athleticism over other, subtler traits, like being able to play basketball. This is how a perfectly well-meaning general manager can end up with Hasheem Thabeet publicly embarrassing him for a year, while the general manager nervously laughs and tells his friends, "But he's SO tall!"

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Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20.../nba-draft-questions/index.html#ixzz1z5QJgE9R

The strange shrinking stature of Ohio State's Jared Sullinger: Bill Livingston
Published: Wednesday, June 27, 2012,
By Bill Livingston, The Plain Dealer

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- NBA scouts loved Ohio State's Jared Sullinger as a freshman, until they didn't.

They fell out of love after 6-10 Josh Harrellson, a second-round New York Knicks' draft choice (No. 45), who averaged 4.4 points as a rookie, played Sullinger better than anyone expected in the 2011 NCAA Tournament. Sullinger got 21 points and 16 rebounds, but Harrellson got 17 and 10 for Kentucky.

Without double-teaming Sullinger in the post except for "digs" (swats) at the ball, the other Wildcats could tighten the screws on William Buford, whose terrible shooting (2-of-16) led to the Sweet 16 upset.

Thus began the downsizing of Sullinger. The key to Ohio State's success the past two seasons, Sullinger has seen his draft prospects slide even more now because of a back problem that sidelined him for two games as a sophomore. He won't be in Newark Thursday night with the projected lottery picks, waiting for his name to be called.

Blessed with good hands, Sullinger is a legitimate 6-9. Whispers had been that he was as short as 6-7. His wing-span is that of a 7-1 player. That is compromised by a lack of lift, though.

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http://www.cleveland.com/livingston/index.ssf/2012/06/the_strange_shrinking_stature.html

 

[AirForceBuck15]

Any predictions on when or where Sully will be drafted tonight?

:osu:

 

[billmac91]

Somewhere in the top 16. For all the talk of him free-falling, there will be a team that slides in and gets one of the best value picks of the draft. As long as Jared Stays healthy, he is a walking double-double.

That's the craziest thing about his slide. You know he will average a double-double night in and night out...probably the safest pick in the draft outside of Anthony Davis in terms of what you are getting. It's too bad his health issues became public, when it's being rumored as many as 9 players in tonights draft have been red-flagged.

There are/were several smiling GM's out there as Jared took a public beating and appeared to drop into the 20's. I just don't see him free-falling that far. He's quite simply, too good. And the ability to actually play the "4" in the NBA instead of having to play out of position defensively as the "5" should really put a lot of questions to rest in terms of his defensive ability.

 

[NINJA BUCK13]

I think Sully will go somewhere between 12-18 tonight...


My guess would be Houston, and then they'll try to package Sully, and a lot of other assets together to make a run for Dwight Howard, but will fail miserably...


Sully would fit right in for the Rockets...


I would love to see him stay in the East somewhere though; just for selfish reasons so I can see him on TV a dozen times or so per season...


Good luck to Sully tonight...

 

[ScriptOhio]

falling lower in the first round may help Jared. This way he can get on a good team cough *Mavericks* cough and not have the expectations he would have had as a top 10 pick. He can develop better without being labeled a bust. I'm not a Buckeye fan, but I like Jared as a player and thin he could be a good piece on a playoff team.

Falling lower in the draft will not help his bank account, the lower he goes the less money he'll get.

 

[AirForceBuck15]

I think Sully will go somewhere between 12-18 tonight... I would love to see him stay in the East somewhere though; just for selfish reasons so I can see him on TV a dozen times or so per season...

^^^^Agreed ^^^^.

I think he would make a good pick and fit with the Sixers. Sully paired with ET would be fun to watch IMO.

 

[Fremont Buckeye]

Falling lower in the draft will not help his bank account, the lower he goes the less money he'll get.

Only true if he stays in the 1st round.

IF he were to fall into the second round contracts are no longer on a guided scale like the first round.

For example Dejuan Blair fell out of the first round 2 years ago and made more money than about half of the first rounders, so while the statement is mostly correct, it is not entirely correct.

 

[Buckeyefrankmp]

If I'm Sully, I'm considering having a lawyer sue ESPN and whomever leaked his personal medical information just prior to the NBA Draft.

It could cost him millions of dollars. I'm not a lawyer, but unless he signed a waiver saying that the results of any medical examination could be made available to the public, I think he might have a pretty good case.

Isn't this a report that all NBA teams will have seen anyway? If a NBA team is going to draft him and pay him millions, I think they are going to do their homework. I don't think this information would be keep secret. We know that he has back problems in the past.