He was due to workout with the Pacers yesterday but pacers.com report he has a Thigh injury.

Lets hope its short term.

He was named as the #6 international prospect in the draft on ESPN late last week, and was given glowing reports.

Surely scouts have done their homework by now? Seems a little far fetched that teams would overlook him because os a groin injury, or conversely decide to burn their 1st round pick on the basis of a workout.

That is a negative set back

That was a pointless post. Captain Obvious lives!

he was never going to be drafted first round anyway.

I always thought he was a chance to get picked with one of the last 5 picks of the first round, hopefully this doesn't hurt his chances at getting drafted all together

Gotta be a huge set back doesn't it?

A dark horse to begin with, he needed everything to go right for him. Now seems bound to be a second round gamble and must perform in summer league play to get a spot.

When it's all said and done, if your good enough, you'll get there. Too much time and money is spent on scouting for players to slip through the cracks..

The problem is that too many players are convinced their good enough when they are just not.

29 teams, 12-15 on a roster, that means just over 400 spots. Now consider that most of those spots are already filled with vets and young players from previous drafts... and every year more players come in...

I'd still trust the scouts to know their job and players better than Chris Ford.... Guys get injuries, and it's not an injury that will impact him long term (like a ACL or similar). Teams can still interview him and talk to him which now days a lot of teams take into serious consideration. It's easy to watch tapes of players, but it's another thing to sit a player down and talk to them and find out how they work.

One thing that the Bucks were impressed with when Bogut worked out with them was the simple fact he presented himself very well and that won them over. The workouts between Bogut and Williams were similar, but Bogut was just more professional and impressed the Bucks more off the court.

Yes, but as all the fantasy players know, sometimes you leave a guy in the hope that you don't have to "waste" an earlier pick on him in the hope that he may still be there later. The real thing is different to fantasy I know - but the mentality can be the same. I think he will slide to late second round.

Agreed TR i remember seeing footage of Bogut, when he met the Bucks owner he handed him his CV in a bound document that gave the owner his basketball background.

I thought it strange at the time, but now think it is part of getting the job

I'd say that will end his first round chances. For someone like him, who would've been right on the bubble for first round selection, and especially when he didn't attend the pre draft camp, he would've needed to win teams over in his workouts.

I know Phoenix brought him in, and I guess they would have seen him as being a chance for their second round pick, so he would need to really impress teams if they had the same thoughts on him.

This was the final year he could enter the draft though.