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Message: [QUOTE="businesslawyer, post: 4614577, member: 55"] So as I understand it Castle isn't thought of more highly than Whitmore was coming into 'Nova this year. And Whitmore's talent, and NBA potential, is undeniable. But you don't really think he helped make his team better to the degree that Alex Karaban did, do you? If you do, great, but recognize that's a minority opinion here. I don't at all mind if you think differently than me on this, because this is a good and useful discussion, but my position is that freshmen McDonalds AAs are almost certain to have a lot of raw talent and potential, but many of them won't help a team succeed as a team their freshman year to the same extent that a more experienced player with far less talent might. Which is why I don't get my hopes up too high. If I go back to the beginning of the Jim Calhoun era, the two players who came in with the most NBA potential as freshmen were probably Rudy Gay and Andre Drummond. In their freshmen years, they were both good players with undeniable NBA potential not just to make the league but to be stars. Neither one made the team much better than we would have been without them. Certainly, neither had the impact on the Team being successful that Karaban and possibly Clingan had this year because they couldn't find or implement the right roles for fitting their undeniable talent into the team that existed around them. [/QUOTE]