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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2197123, member: 199"] It isn't that amazing to me at all because as you say it happens in every sport and really at every level. Projecting skill and attitude from one level to the next is just not easy to do. And the concentration of talent in the tiny WNBA is so great that the last 24 players at the end of the 12 teams' rosters and the last 24 cuts from rosters are barely discernible. And the players you list were not just first round choices, they were top two choices and the difference between the top talent in a year when one of them is available vs. the rest of the first round picks is pretty huge. Pretty much every year there are players drafted in the first round that either don't make it through the first season or hang on by a thread for a few years, never starting or contributing much of anything, and they are drafted by pretty much every coach/GM combination that has every been. The truth is that most WNBA drafts 30-50% of first round draft picks end up as 'busts' in that they never develop into serious contributors to their teams and end up out of the W by their 4th year. And most drafts there is a second round pick who out-performs most of the first rounders. [/QUOTE]