Tristan Thompson is clearly not ready for the NBA

You can’t be successful in the NBA with brown eyes. He will be a collossal failure.

Selecting and signing with an agent. With a multitude of prospective options, choosing a single representative is a confounding process for even the brightest young man. Reviewing the inscrutable legal papers is nothing to sneeze at either.

Tristan is a naive kid, and another 3-4 years on the mean streets of Austin would go a long way toward prepping him for the rigors of the real world.

As a Canadian, Tristan is unprepared for the challenges of selecting among a variety of private health care providers.

Nice, nd.

I think Thompson’s shot blocking has a long way to go. Ideally, you would control the block in such a way that it always results in immediate fast-break opportunities for your team, preferably then ending with a Thompson +1 slam dunk.
Developing a perimeter game that would allow him to play pick’n’pop or screen and roll so that he won’t always have to be fed near the rim to score might put him in draft contention as well.
That’s just a couple of things off the top of my head, I could pick at his game for hours and still not be done.

I’m calling it early. nd wins the thread.

Tristan is exceedingly polite. He is definitely too polite to make a groupie sandwich split directly after the skeet skeet.

I doubt that you can succeed in the NBA withou that sort of mental toughness.

agreed. nd’s argument is the most persuasive.

Tristan has a history of gout, which makes him a likely candidate to end up like the old man Greg Oden.

Not even Uloric can save this young man.

His upper body needs some development too, particularly in that it lacks bad tattoos. Another three years access to 6th Street is just what he needs.

Tristan must learn to speak American.
 
For example, he calls sidewalks “pavements.”
 
And he calls women “ma’am.” Instead of “bitch.”

You Longhorns are a messed up bunch. Funny shit here.

He could improve his shot blocking with his left hand. Way too dominant on the right hand. Scouts notice that stuff.

He’s a hoser, eh. Bob and Doug Mckenzie say he needs another year in Austin to fully develop the lower 48 attitude.

Durant, Augustine, Aldridge, Gibson, Bradley, etc all have one great regret in life.

They did not stay at Texas for a full four years.

“I think Thompson’s shot blocking has a long way to go. Ideally, you would control the block in such a way that it always results in immediate fast-break opportunities for your team”

You’re kidding right? The focus of shot blocking is shot blocking, just like the focus of rebounding is rebounding. It is not possible to coach shot-blocking the way you describe it.

You guys are aware that he’s a Scientologist, right?

He converted sometime back in late December/early January.

"I think Thompson’s shot blocking has a long way to go. Ideally, you would control the block in such a way that it always results in immediate fast-break opportunities for your team"

Don’t you know anything about basketball??
Ideally, you would swat the ball the length of the court into the basket.

In all seriousness, the more guys you put in the pros, the more guys who will come to your school. I hope he goes pro; lord forbid he pulls a Shaun Livingston or a Tyrone Prothro on one of his dunks.

Mr. Rice, you clearly don’t understand basketball. If you just block the ball out of bounds, the other team retains possession. Tristan needs to learn to block the shot directly to a guard, preferably to the guards dominant hand. Otherwise, it’s worthless.

And, he needs to stay around to learn the conversion rates of dollars to pelts. That’s how those Canadian kids get screwed every time.

The moment the season is over, Rick Barnes should email TT clips of terrible plays by NBA lottery teams. The X.XX% chance that the Cavs could draft him should be enough to keep him in school.

Also, we should all be doing everything we can to ensure an NBA lockout for next season.

He needs more strength in his pelvic girdle. Clearly a stronger pelvis is a requirement for professional basketball.

He needs a neck tat of a wolf spider.

“He needs more strength in his pelvic girdle. Clearly a stronger pelvis is a requirement for professional basketball.”

Lack of pelvic strength is what ultimately kept Shawn Kemp from living up to his potential.

I suggest someone steal a medieval rack and use it to stretch out Sherrod Harris about 6 inches. Then we could through him at the Portsmouth All-star camp and do a bait and switch for the draft.

We all recall that LaMarcus Aldridge lost a half-season because of a hip injury. Thompson needs to make sure that he isn’t damaged goods if he’s ever good enough to play as a pro.

I think Fried Rice just took the lead over nd for Charlie Sheen-ing this thread.

Pretty sure Todd Wright mentioned that Tristan needs to work on his kegel muscle.

fyi, you do NOT want to watch the videos of Wright working players’ kegel muscles.

wolf spiders, (plural)

Heard he only drinks his milk out of bags. So much to learn about American culture.

He can’t read a scouting report correctly because the NBA doesn’t use “kilos” and “meters” in it’s descriptions. He needs at least two more years of learning how to do the conversion math in his head.

Needs quite a bit of work on his Bourre skills and his right-handed Glock wielding. He’s just not there yet.

"He needs more strength in his pelvic girdle. Clearly a stronger pelvis is a requirement for professional basketball."

Yes. Just look at what Wilt the Stilt and Magic Johnson did with their pelvis’s (pelvi?) in the NBA. Clearly TT is too young for that sport. Stay in Austin and develop that girdle.

Like playing at high altitudes, it takes 4 years to acclimate your body from Canadian weather to Austin weather. Plus, there’s all that confusing Celsius to Fahrenheit stuff. Finally, it won’t be his turn to marry Kim Kardashian until at least 2014.

I’ve never even seen him jump over a Kia. That lack of athleticism will kill him. Paul Mokeski upside, imo.

Tristan has a lot to learn before he can properly articulate himself in press conferences and post-game interviews since, as we all know, the Canadian dictionary only has 700 words.

https://twitter.com/realtristan13/status/49146208228347904

Dude can barely bench 185 lbs and he comes from a town where some twirpy little white dude is the toughest guy. Street cred fail.

Another thing. He’s going to have to change his name. Guys named Tristan play squash and come out of the closet in their 50s.

got to stay long enough to distinguish himself from this guy:

http://meangreenball.com/north-texas-basketball/roster_player/tristan-thompson

http://twitter.com/JasonKingYahoo/status/49189305805053952

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/longhorns/entries/2011/03/19/thompson_says_h.html?cxntfid=blogs_bevo_beat&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Broken link. It says:

Texas forward Tristan Thompson just told a group of reporters that he will return for his sophomore season instead of entering the NBA draft

Not that anyone would really say otherwise at this point.

Tristan agrees with the OP! :)

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/tournament/2011/news/story?id=6236917

oh.. i was going to be angry

I’ve noticed that he doesn’t have that good, big, pile-driving ass that scouts look for. Maybe a few lessons from Kim Kardashian could improve that ,er….aspect.

He takes to coaching too well. There’s nothing I hate worse than someone who listens to reason. Unselfish bastard. LEAVE NOW!!

His head doesn’t have enough rubber and his tail has too many springs…worthless.

“We all recall that LaMarcus Aldridge lost a half-season because of a hip injury. Thompson needs to make sure that he isn’t damaged goods if he’s ever good enough to play as a pro.”

LaMarcus got hurt during his freshman season. The injury led to him returning for his soph. season before heading to the NBA the following season. LaMarcus injury enabled him to get stronger and be ready for the NBA.

Fried Rice, that reminds me of another thing. Thompson’s coaching on the court skills need to reach Bill Russell levels before we can seriously think of another 6’9" guy being a real shot-blocker and low-post presence in the National Basketball Association.