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Message: [QUOTE="MadDogRevival, post: 2792587, member: 8028"] For the guys who are still hammering at the point, "he left too soon," consider this . . . His way, he now has 1.35 million. Proven. Real. The other way, he [B][I]speculatively [/I][/B]could have made 3.x million [B][U]IF[/U][/B] he was drafted in the 1st round. Big ifs, particularly given how terrible our team became. Hard to stand out when you're on a disjointed, horribly coached team with no heart. Hamilton took a mass amount of abuse on this board for being a "high volume, low % scorer with an iffy 3 pointer." I constantly retorted with - yeah, but the team is garbage, so he is forced to play that role and the other team can zero in on him because nobody else can score. Would 2 more years of playing in the same awful system have made him a better player? Probably not, and it may have had the effect of branding him as a 4 year sub NBA talent who didn't improve in college. At the time, I thought the decision wasn't clearly the best one for him, financially, but I didn't think it was clearly wrong either - the D league certainly provided him with better talent and more exposure that UConn would have. Retrospectively, knowing what we know now, getting off of the KO Slow Motion Train Wreck ASAP was [U]almost certainly[/U] the best move for him at the time. Get over it. [/QUOTE]