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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 1993814, member: 199"] Interesting point, but I would say for most of the basketball prospects it is not just a talent, but also a passion, and at 18 you should follow your life passion to find out how far it can take you - it might not take you to a pro career and the odds that it does are small, but it might take you to sports medicine or coaching or sports management, or to working for Nike, or it may just pay your way through college and along the way continue to develop your attention to detail, your dedication to a craft, and your sense of teamwork and striving for shared goals with a community. For others like EDD it can feel like a trap, or they can decide that the sacrifices it demands are ones they aren't willing to pay, and those too are valuable lessens to learn. It is why I don't get angry about people who leave Uconn WCBB no matter how their absence affects the team. EDD needed to take time away and find out if it was a passion or just a trap, and she needed to find her way back at a different level than Uconn would have demanded had she just red-shirted for a year or two. [/QUOTE]