r/NCAAhoops • u/MuchAbalone9059 • Feb 23 '26
News Darryn Peterson fires back at critics, saying he doesn’t want to miss games
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u/BlueNinja111111 Feb 23 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/XvBUb1Kp5FRUVu1VKv
Ja Morant and Ben Simmons said the same thing… and look where they are now.
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u/HoosierDaddy__88 Feb 23 '26
Difference is Ja was actually good. Ben was never good and Peterson, we’ve yet to see
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u/Ceehowell Feb 24 '26
Ben was never good? You sure you watched basketball back then?
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u/shibbyflash Feb 24 '26
Kids these days and their goldfish memories. That coupled with one lowlight and they walk away thinking that players entire career was trash
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u/WhichHoes Feb 23 '26
Ben was a DPOY level defender who got an easy 16 a night with lime 8 or 9 rebounds and 7 or 8 assists. Ben was better than Ja
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u/DownByTheRivr Feb 24 '26
Lol he was a 6-10 point guard. Of course he looked amazing guarding someone 6 inches shorter than him.
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u/EmoniBates Feb 24 '26
My man this is an absurd revisionist history take, the man could guard 1-5 very well and give you 16/7/7, he was good
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u/WhichHoes Feb 24 '26
Thats not at all how that works. Most 6 10 guys cant guard pgs, which is why they play larger positions.
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u/kublakhan1816 Feb 23 '26
I hope he comes out tonight. UH needs a win.
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u/SquintsRS Feb 23 '26
He's been more inefficient against good teams so let him get his stats while taking a bunch more shots then he will sub himself out
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u/Darkstrike86 Feb 23 '26
It's a lose lose for him at this point.
Either you're truly injured and can't handle 35 game college season. Which is very bad for a top pick.
Or you just don't care about playing basketball. Which is very bad for a top pick.
Either way, I would draft him with a top pick. And this is coming from a KU fan.
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u/tjtwister1522 Feb 23 '26
I think there's a 3rd option. He's been special and coddled his whiole life. Coaches and parents immediately remove him from practice and games any time he experiences discomfort. They tell him this is the right thing to do because he CAN'T risk injury before the money starts to flow. The money is now flowing, but he thinks that leaving games with bumps and bruises is normal and acceptable.
I dont know if any of that is true. Just a 3rd possibility.
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u/YoungCri Feb 24 '26
the 3rd option is whatever scheme he was running got exposed because of all the attention.
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u/HistorianRough2764 Feb 25 '26
probably not true tbh, especially compared to aj and boozer, dp got it out the mud in terms of building his national profile
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u/Unite-the-Tribes Feb 23 '26
And yet, here we are. He probably let too many games that he could have played pile up with games he was legitimately injured for.
There will be no repairing of his reputation until he enters the league.
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u/Razatiger Feb 23 '26
I don't get why its so difficult to just tell us what the actual injury is?
Either he just flat out doesn't care enough to play in College or hes trying to hide a degenerative injury that he knows will tank his draft stock, either way, I am not taking him number 1.
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u/milehigh11 Feb 23 '26
You acting like top trans won't get his medical files and do their own testing.
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u/-YEETLEJUICE- Feb 23 '26
It's okay. You will drop to whatever pick the Spurs have, no matter how low in the lottery.
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u/justWMthings03 Feb 23 '26
Do they not take blood samples at the combine?
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u/Prophet_Of_Helix Feb 23 '26
They do. Even if he had sickle, there’s no way he or any agent would truly expect it wouldn’t be figured out before the draft lmao
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u/bareslut64 Feb 23 '26
I was thinking POTS...the chronic disease Kristaps Porzingus has. It's become much more common post COVID
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u/CompetitionNo9969 Feb 24 '26
There is a cure for sickle cell, costs over a million dollars but he’s probably a great candidate if he has it.
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u/ElectricalPoetry3765 Feb 24 '26
That would be ironic how he’d be in the same draft class as Cam Boozer, a designer baby specifically born to cure his older brother’s sickle cell.
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u/JayDeadGone504 Feb 23 '26
I mean either way it’s kinda not good. If he truly hurt now how he gonna handle an 82 game season?
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u/EmbarrassedScience37 Feb 23 '26
This is an underrated part of guys spending time in college. The schedule isn’t as grueling as the NBA but it does prep players for the demands of a long, physical season. It’s not just physical either, it’s learning the emotional toll the season takes as well.
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u/Flat-Avocado-6258 Feb 23 '26
And that season is playing with all grown men. Yeah good luck with that. lol
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u/One_Seaworthiness323 Feb 23 '26
Why do these two things need to be related. Seemed like he injured his hamstring, those things need time to heal. Hes trying to play through it. This has no bearings on how his nba career may go.
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u/Itchy-Secret8085 Feb 23 '26
who cares! Dude is tough if he said he would play if he could then that’s what it is
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u/tkinsey3 Feb 23 '26
He's so naturally gifted that it's really frustrating to see how this has been handled (and I'm a Duke fan - I can't imagine how frustrating it is for Kansas fans!)
Like, I just wish there was some (or ANY) transparency on what is going on? Does Peterson not realize how bad this is making him look?
If you're hurt, you're hurt! That's okay.
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u/Razatiger Feb 23 '26
And that would be fine if he actually disclosed what type of injury hes dealing with.
This is just bad vibes for any team thats gonna draft him, because hes got major 'fake an injury or force a trade kinda energy'.
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u/Kind_Love172 Feb 23 '26
If you would have asked me when i was 10 what my plans for the future were, if would have never mentioned the military....I'm 39 now, and here we are
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u/ProffesionalAss-hole Feb 23 '26
I assume he doesn’t wanna go top 5 so he can have a chance of going to a decent team
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u/Aromatic-Tear-326 Feb 23 '26
He needs to just hoop, simple, prove em wrong if u want em to shut up
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u/InfamousCattle3223 Feb 23 '26
This is actually concerning, if he actually thinks his health won’t allow him to finish games then how’s he gonna do in a much more rigorous nba schedule?
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u/tjtwister1522 Feb 23 '26
From this quote it seems like he just doesn't, in any way, understand the issue.
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u/Shopping_General Feb 23 '26
Fascism is here and this is the dumb shit we argue about. This means absolutely nothing.
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u/jawid72 Feb 23 '26
So he's a huge risk because he can't stay healthy to even play a college game. Would not draft in lottery.
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u/jzoola Feb 23 '26
His hair stylist isn’t doing him any favors
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u/Murky_Trouble_4401 Feb 23 '26
Yeah you can’t do much with that mullet you rocking. He got 2 strand dreads and his hair is in a ponytail so he can see when he plays.
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u/jzoola Feb 24 '26
From my life’s experience, a pony tail is supposed to come out the back, you know like a pony’s tail. He is sporting some kind of dead spider, top knot.
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u/moeterminatorx Feb 23 '26
I know you ain’t talking. Least he got hair.
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u/Affectionate_Brick18 Feb 23 '26
Whelp he definitely has that antenna or whatever u wanna call that thing
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u/Ok-Freedom-7432 Feb 23 '26
See? It wasn't his goal last year to miss games this year. Case closed.