Posted by djsunyc:

it's just how it goes.

look at jim boeheim. a plethora of star college players but very few translated into star nba players. why? who knows.

and for all the games that duke wins, how many of them are stars. grant hill, and recently brand and maggette...but before?

Posted by BRIGGS:

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CBB/NBA two different monsters. I think you have to take every imaginable look at a player to even determine if he is NBA material. Laetner was a good NBA player when he got in, but it wasnt long-lived. Bobby Hurley was a little small once he got to the NBA--if you are a little small--you better be ultra quick. His accident also frigged him. I think when you get a player like Grant Hill, who has the elite athletiscm, the size and skills and a true position---you have to feel pretty confident he'll be a good nBA player. Athletiscm and size are two big time factors for the NBA. As slow as Larry Bird was, he had great size[6-10] and with that size he had unusual skills. for those who never saw Bird, think of Nowitski, a little less athletic, who had PG skills like a NY streetballer

Posted by Rich:

Posted by BRIGGS:

Posted by djsunyc:

it's just how it goes.

look at jim boeheim. a plethora of star college players but very few translated into star nba players. why? who knows.

and for all the games that duke wins, how many of them are stars. grant hill, and recently brand and maggette...but before?

CBB/NBA two different monsters. I think you have to take every imaginable look at a player to even determine if he is NBA material. Laetner was a good NBA player when he got in, but it wasnt long-lived. Bobby Hurley was a little small once he got to the NBA--if you are a little small--you better be ultra quick. His accident also frigged him. I think when you get a player like Grant Hill, who has the elite athletiscm, the size and skills and a true position---you have to feel pretty confident he'll be a good nBA player. Athletiscm and size are two big time factors for the NBA. As slow as Larry Bird was, he had great size[6-10] and with that size he had unusual skills. for those who never saw Bird, think of Nowitski, a little less athletic, who had PG skills like a NY streetballer

I think the accident is what did Hurley in. All the NBA players who played with him in the Olympics thought he would be an elite NBA PG.

Hurley was starting to come around before he got ditched. Two Rings in 3 final four trips, greatest PG in the modern era. Not the best player, but he most acomplished.

Bobby was an animal! Never saw anybody witht that kind of determination. It was sick to wathch him play wall to wall, balls to the wall for 40 full minutes game after game.

No way this kid would have not been great. He was wired for it.