Pretty solid interview with tyler....definitely seems a lot more mature than people make him sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjMSNSlyyBQ
The problem is, he is being called immature because of his decisions and actions, and he can talk all he wants, but the talk will never make up for the actions. So, he is going to have the immature label until he gets rid of it by proving he is ready through his actions.
Agreed, his actions do need to do the talking, but if the most immature thing he did was to start working on his craft a year early in a couple of foreign countries, is that really that immature? European and other foreign players do this all the time. Some of the euro players in this draft that are projected much higher all turned pro early and put up similar underwhelming numbers but we don't scrutinize their maturity as hard.
We may not like the idea of skipping highschool, but it does seem like he put some though into why he made that decision, and has even said there were things on and off the court that he would do differently. He also goes on to say that the path he took was a tough one and is not for everyone.
Saying the right things and understanding that you could have done things differently is step one in maturing and it appears he has done that.
Doc and our vets can help him continue to grow in that direction.
Look at brandon jennings...not much in europe, slipped in draft as a result, but is now a solid nba player.
Take a flyer on tyler!!!