Ricky Rubio: Not a Fan of Pre-Draft Workouts

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• Jeff Fox Posted: Jun.23 at 10:05 am
  Working out most players is an incredible waste of time that teams put too much stock in. Like Rubio said, working out alone in a gym will not show a team what type of player he is.

• Ken Posted: Jun.23 at 10:07 am
  Yeah, for a guy who is being hyped as a great passer/playmaker, it seems weird to work him out solo.

• Mendel Posted: Jun.23 at 10:19 am
  WEAK. It just exposes his lack of atheltisism and unability to shoot.

• Eboy Posted: Jun.23 at 10:25 am
  Mendel is 1000% percent correct.

• Eboy Posted: Jun.23 at 10:56 am
  and that was 100% not me

• Thomas Posted: Jun.23 at 10:59 am
  I was just as excited as any other Rubio admirer after the Olympics and was anxious to see him in the nba. But his complaining about not having teammates to compete with and help showcase his talents is just another reflection of his immaturity or the bad decisions made by his handlers. Rubio is the one who didn’t want to work-out for anyone, and now that he’s slipped from a definite number two slot he’s frantically trying to recover. A classic prima dona that is not going to have a great first season unless he ends up in NY, Phoenix or Oakland.

• Tarzan Cooper Posted: Jun.23 at 11:01 am
  eboy is %%%% retarded

• Jsoto Posted: Jun.23 at 11:31 am
  Tarzan is 100% a f@ggot

• Z Posted: Jun.23 at 11:40 am
  Fvckouttahere. Nash, CP3, D-Will, they all had to do those freaking workouts. Teams know he can pass. Why wouldn’t they want to know if he can shoot? Or how much of an athlete he is? Or how well he can take directions? It’s bs to say that workouts are meaningless. They don’t tell the whole story but they mean something. Especially if you pin top prospects against each other. I’ve read stories about how CP3 would just murder any top point guard in his workouts and just would not quit. That obviously showed GMs how competitive he is.

• doyouwantmore Posted: Jun.23 at 12:20 pm
  I hope he slips to fourth. As I recall, Steve Nash took a little while to develop fully (like until he was in thirties) but he turned out pretty good. Rubio literally has decades to work on his shot and his brains and court vision are more than worth it. Derek Fisher couldn’t buy a bucket in the playoffs and his old a&& could barely keep up but he still won by being smart and clutch. Whoever gets Rubio should give him the keys and commit to him as long-term as possible. Make him the Jerry Sloan of point guards.

• Ciolkstar Posted: Jun.23 at 12:28 pm
  The kid just looks more and more like a primadonna every time something happens with him. He’s blackballing teams, he refused to participate in any group workouts and now he’s crying about not being able to show his skills without any teammates.
  I understand his point about his strengths being in the team game and not in 1 on 1 or solo settings, but I’m sure these solo workouts probably focus (too much for his liking)on his weak-decent shooting and atheticism.

• Ciolkstar Posted: Jun.23 at 12:30 pm
  Z, I kept hearing the same thing about Flynn in workouts. he’s showing that extra bit of confidence, attitiude, and (forgive me) swag that attracts teams.

• Allenp Posted: Jun.23 at 12:36 pm
  If you can’t shoot, run fast or jump high, I can see how solo workouts would be a problem.
  I understand that argument that game situations are the most important thing.
  But, by that logic, JJ Reddick and Adam Morrison were ready for superstardom. Instead, when paired against other draftees who had athletic ability similar to what they would face night in and night out in the league, it was obvious those two college superstars were lacking.

• Moose Posted: Jun.23 at 12:56 pm
  Moose: Not a Fan of Rubio Complaining About Pre-Draft Workouts

• Eboy Posted: Jun.23 at 12:59 pm
  Moose, since this fool is only a few years older than you…..let this be an example of how not to approach trying out….for any sport…..in any setting.

• doyouwantmore Posted: Jun.23 at 1:16 pm
  What if you had to pay six-million bucks out of your own pocket to enter the draft. Do you think you’d try pretty hard to manage your draft stock, even if it meant somebody calling you a prima-donna?

• Z Posted: Jun.23 at 1:42 pm
  Please, let’s not act like he’s the first Euro to have to buy his way out. They all did. And he was the one that painted himself into a corner making his return to Joventut impossible at this point. He has no leverage anymore. Even if Memphis takes him, he HAS to go because the situation is too messed up with his former team. I think that’s a lot to deal with for someone that’s not heads and shoulders above his comp. I thought that Steve Francis acted like a douche back then and I think that Rubio is acting like one now.

• Jukai Posted: Jun.23 at 1:44 pm
  Ciolkstar: I’ve heard people are saying Flynn’s jumper is weaker than they thought. So, you know.
  Z: Can you name them?

• Z Posted: Jun.23 at 1:48 pm
  Juks: all of them. I’m surprised that you don’t know this. I’ll let you do the research.

• seppo Posted: Jun.23 at 2:45 pm
  i don´t think rubio will make it in the nba. and because of his recent behavior and his unothodox european game i´m kinda rooting against him. he just doesn´t seem to be a likeable guy. right now he´s just a weird looking anorexic douchebag.

• knock knock Posted: Jun.23 at 3:29 pm
  rubio is the newest clone of harry potter.

• Jukai Posted: Jun.23 at 3:38 pm
  Z: Many of them leave when their contracts are up. To my knowledge, Ginobli did that.
  I think Fernandez bought out his contract, didn’t he?

• BETCATS Posted: Jun.23 at 3:42 pm
  BETCATS: Not a fan of Moose taking the exact comment he was about to say and posting it.

• BETCATS Posted: Jun.23 at 3:43 pm
  And why are you linked to ballislife? WHY? HAVE YOU LEFT HIBACHI?

• seven deuce Posted: Jun.23 at 3:51 pm
  I hope Rubio can play, because everything I’ve read about him thus far annoys me tremendously.

• nate the great Posted: Jun.23 at 5:14 pm
  yeah i dont like the rubio madness, or anything.
  but i hope he can play. i hope he gets better.
  it would be crazy seeing a weird, unathletic, skinny, douschy kid, whos 18 lead a weak sqaud to the playoffs, and dethrow kobe.
  and plus i miss steve francis.
  that kid needs to come back.

• Blinguo Posted: Jun.23 at 9:59 pm
  I think Moose just left that there after he linked to it after the Ballislife post the other day. Warriors workouts with say Jennings/Jrue/other 3rd/4th to gauge comp is ideal. When say a big man Jordan Hill showed up there later that week on his own with no one to workout against, since he dwarfs the coaching staff and ball/towel boys, is bad just the same. But not at least having another couple guards in for 3 man games - which coaches like seeing more than 1 on 1, sounds like it is boring. And Ricky just seems to want to play to his strengths as a distributor. He misses showing defense too with nobody else throwing passes around either or having anyone to face up guard. So he only sees the game as 5 on 5, and this isn’t his type of workout he’s accustomed to so he may not know what’s up with the pre-draft stuff. Who expected he would? Or that his team of handlers knows everything too?

• Aristotle Posted: Jun.25 at 3:31 pm
  Simply put, this kid has been hailed as a basketball god in Spain and Europe and so he’s put his name in the NBA draft because he believes he belongs in the NBA.
  Rubio is whingeing about being alone and the workout not being his style…so Patrick Mills for example who’s had like 11-19 workouts set up should be saying what exactly?
  The kid knows 5-on-5 zone basketball and he needs to wake up to himself asap if he’s going to play NBA. I suggest he calls Pau and asks him what it takes to go from Memphis and working his ass off in a crap team to being noticed by the Lakers and being pushed by Kobe and Zen Master X to give it his all (and now he has a ring).
  If he needs “teammates” then he should go back home.To me he shows mental weakness and may even start complaining about feeling home sick. I mean complaining about workouts, whining about which organisation is allowed to draft him… screw that. There’s guys out there who want his spot and are hungry for that opportunity.
  So say that the teams wanted to test his mental toughness and put him through a physical workout of suicides, pushups, vertical leaps and just punish his body to see how he holds up…he’d fail. He’d start his whining when every other player it seems would maybe hurt but they wouldn’t go public with it. Speaking out… that shows weakness. He’s not NBA ready yet. Maybe down the track.