ROFL, now we're basing HS averages off of four games.
Uhh, U19 are technically high school age, but it's the best HS students of each country. And yes, that is all we had on him pre-draft since he was a HS student entering the draft.
ROFL, now we're basing HS averages off of four games.
lol, way to cherry pick stats. So he averaged 18 and 5 on 44% FGshttps://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/...2013_FIBA_U19_Championship_for_Men/index.html
I was wrong on the above, there are all of his game, which amount to 18 ppg. But his averages took a hit because he played under 20 in 3 games. Any game where he got minutes he dominated.
Hayward then went to college and proved he could play at that level.For comparison, here are some of Hayward's stats from his U19 tournament
https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/...IBA_U19_World_Championship_for_Men/index.html
Lol Im going to enjoy when Im right on Exum just like I was right on Hayward when 80% of the forum doubted him.
to call the U18 players HS kids isn't exactly a true barometer of the talent level either, some of those squads are loaded with pro talent like an elite college team(Which certainly cn be said about some US HS's like La Lumiere)..there's som obscenely talented HS teams but I don't think any are quite like France's U18 team that just won the chip, which has several professionals and an absolutely gigantic backcourt. Many of those teams would absolutely run a HS team off the court.
There is a massive difference indeed between the very very inconsitant level of play in the american AAU system and in the european youth levels. In most european countries the U16 or U18 national team plays quite a lot of games so really those young players play many games against the cream of the cream of other european youngsters, plus add to that that many of those young guys are being trained inside training programs of pro clubs or the national training programm of the national federation. It has nothing to do with the utter mess that the AAU circuit is. A french 16 year old plays 15 games per year with his national team (the best young guys in the country) + is trained inside the programm of his local pro club. Imagine if in the US instead of going through the circus that is the AAU circuit and then the unpaid slavery to allow big unis to make money that is the NCAA, young players got to go through U16 or U18 programs of the San Antonio Spurs, Knicks, Bulls or others ? We would see such a massive difference.