Draftexpress dropped Willie Cauley-Stein all the way to #11 today.
Something about his medical history.
Stanley Johnson also has some questionmarks about his background.
Givony quoted one GM saying he has never seen so many top guys in the draft with red flags.
I wonder if the Johnson stuff is just beyond the well known stuff that he's a very emotional and immature kid right now and has a bit of an ego? He's reportedly refusing to workout for Charlotte, wants Det at 8 or Mia at 10 to take him. Hasn't publicly stated he doesn't want to go to Charlotte, is just refusing to workout for them. Not totally unusual but I guess there is some talk he's bunched with a group of kids and refusing to workout could cause him to slide.
The reports are he's not shot well in the workouts, everyone thinks he's a good athlete, very strong kid, plays hard, they think he can be a plus defender, but they're all concerned his shot is inconsistent.
Certainly wasn't much negative rumor about him during his recruitment, about the worst you heard was the USC stuff and that was more USC than him, if you're a 16 year old kid and someone gives you the Pangos MVP aware and hands you several pairs of brand new USC shoes, you're probably going to take them, you may even take pics of them and post it on Twitter. As soon as he found out that was a violation, he reportedly returned the shoes. That was the worst thing I heard on him, he didn't grow up poor in a bad neighborhood kind of deal so I sort of doubt he's got that sort of concern.
