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Originally Posted by cickyle
The fact of the matter is that the NBA draft is all about potential, so therefore if you can go first round then 9 times out of 10 you are better off leaving school with eligibility remaining. Just look at Davis, he probabley would have been a lottery pick after his freshman year or maybe even sophmore year. Now even though he did improve in some areas he solidified doubts that scouts had about other areas of his game, simply by showing the 2-3 additional years of play. In the NBA draft 1-2 years were you show flashes of brilliance combined with games were you struggle, is worth then 4 years of very solid consistent play.
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Couldn't be more true. All Davis has shown is that like Nick Collison and Chris Mihm, he's about as good now as he's ever going to be. As for Shannon? The sky's the limit (imagine him in Phoenix, or playing with LeBron). I'm really happy to hear that he's sliding into the first round, regardless of how it affects
MSU hoops. You can't pass up a guaranteed 3-4 year contract worth that much money. It took Charlie Bell years to get to where Shannon is about to go.