Bruce Pearl <\/a>doesn\u2019t believe the absences will impact Peterson\u2019s draft stock, but says he would have \u201cconcerns\u201d if he were his coach in the NBA.<\/p>\n\u201cThey\u2019re really good with him, they\u2019re really good without him,\u201d Pearl said on TNT. \u201cYou know, the difference is he doesn\u2019t have the ball in his hands when he\u2019s not playing out there so the other guys have got to do more. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think this is going to affect his draft stock, because everybody that I talked to in the league, he still looks like the No. 1 guy. But if I was coaching in the NBA, I\u2019m sorry, I would have some concerns missing 11 out of 24 games for hamstrings and quad pulls and illness, just a long list of different things. My job is to coach the team, my job is to win championships. The General Manager has got to make another decision. I would be a little concerned about just how tough he is.\u201d<\/p>\n
By contrast, Dybantsa, Duke\u2019s Cam Boozer and North Carolina\u2019s Caleb Wilson, the other top projected draft picks, have not missed a single game this season.<\/p>\n
Still, former college and NBA star Jamal Mashburn also said he\u2019s not concerned about Peterson\u2019s NBA stock.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor a kid like Darryn Peterson, I\u2019m not necessarily concerned about him,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019d rather have him on the court and let him adjust to his body and what he can actually do. He\u2019s a premier talent. At the end of the day, when he\u2019s on the court, he\u2019s probably the best player on the court at any particular moment. I\u2019m not really concerned about him.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne thing I\u2019ve learned in watching Kansas play is, when he\u2019s out of the lineup, they\u2019ve all gotten better. And when he\u2019s inserted, they know how to play around him. They play much more of an NBA pro style, where you can insert people in and out, and it doesn\u2019t efffect performance. So I like him in the lineup. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s necessarily, because his body breaks down, that it\u2019s a toughness issue. I think it\u2019s a soft tissue issue, and I think it\u2019s cautionary on his side as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
At that point, Rose pointed out that Peterson will have to play even more games in the NBA, where soft-tissue injuries could be magnified.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he has a soft tissue issue playing a collegiate schedule, now he\u2019s getting to the NBA playing two times more games in the back court going against some of the fastest people in the world, and needing to defend and fight through screens and stuff like that, I feel like it will effect his draft stock,\u201d Rose said.<\/p>\n
Of course, in the NBA load management is now common and you only need to play 65 games to be eligible for the various awards.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a reason for that,\u201d Mashburn said. \u201cThey know there\u2019s load management and all these different things. You\u2019re not playing a whole season anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas freshman guard Darryn Peterson is probably the best player in college basketball when he\u2019s on the court.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,6,12,1007],"class_list":{"0":"post-596803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-nba-draft","11":"tag-nba-on-espn"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116052445979916031","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}