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That's just ridiculous. Just because they play for UK doesn't mean they'd automatically be a pro prospect. Only person outside of the top 15 ranked HS players that has made it to the NBA from UK in Cal's tenure is Eric Bledsoe and Darius Miller. Eric Bledsoe was ranked as high as 22nd in his class (Higher than any of our guys) and Darius Miller as high as 33rd in his class (Same range as Lacey and Randolph).

Could one of them be pro prospect? Possibly because of the exposure and the brand name.

The only possible solid NBA prospects on that list is Cooper and Randolph. Releford and Lacey don't even fit the bill. Releford lacks some serious court vision and Lacey is far too slow and unathletic. They are both too small for their positions. It would shock the shite out of me to see Releford or Lacey become anything more than a mid-2nd round pick.

Having said all this, I do think we have talent on the perimeter, but our inside play was just too thin and poor to succeed. Is Grant's offense terrible? Hell yes! But don't tell me we have four NBA prospect quality players right now. That's complete bullshite.

WTF are you talking about? I didn't say anything about them being 1st round guys. But, right now, they're all dream league or euro material. You don't think if they played for a team that had an actual offensive philosophy that they'd make it to the NBA?

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Posted by BigBird09

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Posted on 4/5/13 at 1:38 pm to Teague

Where did I say 1st round pick? Darius Miller wasn't a 1st round pick...

I'm not saying that one of them wouldn't be if they were in the right system, but all of them? Hell no.

You said they would all be NBA prospects right now if they were at UK. They still have the ability to become an NBA prospect, but they are just not right now. If they were we would have the 2nd best back-court in NCAAB behind Michigan.

Let's use Duke for instance, since we can agree they have a better offensive system. We can also assume that they recruit better players than we do. They only have 3 NBA prospects one of which is Seth Curry, who is a FAR better prospect at his position right now than Lacey, Cooper, Randolp, and Releford, and he's projected as the 59th pick (2nd to last) by NBADraft.net and undrafted by most sites in the worst draft in over a decade.

This post was edited on 4/5/13 at 3:55 pm

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