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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 5205302, member: 175"] He had played 5 years of college and was 23. His NBA value was limited. He wasn’t ranked coming out of high school, came to us with pretty much zero NBA potential and got there - however fringe he is, he became an NBA player on our watch. In between, more importantly, he won two national titles as a starting point guard, which is kinda sorta what we are in this for. Put up 20-5-7 and no turnovers in the national championship last year. His assist to turnover ratio took a big leap forward into pure point guard territory, and he quarterbacked maybe one of the most efficient offenses in recent memory (Cam helped in that regard as well, to be fair). He was never a great shooter (43 percent vs. 41 percent is statistical noise - amounts to maybe one extra made basket every 5 games), but seeing how much of a dumpster fire we are in late clock situations this year should make his absence glaring. We’ve had 10 guys go to the NBA and Castle is the only one who came to us an NBA-ready guy who you can’t say we had a big part in putting there. And there are others who were never going to be NBA guys, who still developed as college players. RJ Cole was way too small to make the league. Vital was way too small as a 2 guard. Whaley was too slight and not a good enough shooter. Diarra is also too small and not a good enough shooter. Those guys got better too. I get that Ross and Stewart haven’t taken the sophomore leap we hoped, but they were fringe top 100 guys and those tend to be guys you take a flyer on - some pan out and carve out roles or turn out to be way better than you expected. But some don’t find their fit. We didn’t have our program’s hopes pinned to Ross (a 3-star ranked No. 113 by 247 and No. 83 by ESPN) or Stewart (a 4-star ranked No. 56 by 247 and No. 95 by ESPN). [/QUOTE]

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