UCLA No Longer #1 College for Pros in the NBA
Duke is first this year (16) with UCLA and Kentucky tied for second (15) in producing pros in the league.
Last year, UCLA was #1 with 14. This year, two UCLA players entered (Honeycutt and Lee) while Dan Gadzuric left during the lockout to play in China. That leaves 15 players in the league (arranged alphabetically): Arron Afflalo (Denver), Trevor Ariza (New Orleans), Matt Barnes (L.A. Lakers), Darren Collison (Indiana), Baron Davis (New York), Jordan Farmar (New Jersey), Tyler Honeycutt (Sacramento), Jrue Holiday (Philadelphia), Ryan Hollins (Cleveland), Jason Kapono (L.A. Lakers), Malcolm Lee (Minnesota), Kevin Love (Minnesota), Luc Mbah a Moute (Milwaukee), Earl Watson (Utah), and Russell Westbrook (Oklahoma City).
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Looks like his only stat for the night was a DNP...
by Alanamaslama on Dec 26, 2011 11:35 PM PST up reply actions
That's correct for both guys
The cancelled summer leagues and shortened training camps surely didn’t help the rookies this year. I’m guessing it’ll take a few weeks for our guys to break into their respective rotations.
They'll get minutes
Due to the compressed season as well.
and I don't just mean with early departure either
it’s attracting the wrong sort of player for our systems, ones more interested in playing time and the spotlight, instead of working hard and proving yourself for the school.
I'm going to venture a guess
and saynthat the UCLA alumni are more productive on average than Duke’s or Kentucky’s…
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
Given Calipari's recruiting style and general MO
I’m guessing that no one will be close to Kentucky in about 6 or 7 years (assuming he stays there and there is no change to the one-and-done rule). He seems content to snap up about half of the likely one and dones each year and hope that pure talent can trump experience and continuity.
Must be a way to compensate
I bet if we do something like multiply a one-and-done’s years in the pros by one, a two-year college player’s NBA years x2, etc in order to compensate for the one-and-dones coming out of Kentucky or anywhere else, we’d be back in front. I’m not asking you to calculate it, and I don’t feel the urge…just thinking there’s probably a way to show how we trump them in producing NBA players who were in college for more than 4-5 months.
Roses are red, violets are blue...f*** $C.
Some might say that with his recruiting style and general MO
they would be shocked to see Calipari still at Kentucky and them to not be on some sort of probation.
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