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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
Remember your own words vis-a-vis Missouri football: experienced three stars beat raw four stars.
The sweet spot is to get players who will be NBA players, but who don't have the ridiculous upside to leave after 1-2 years.
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I'm not sure I believe it in basketball.
So much of basketball can be boiled down to one guy simply out-athleting another. It's like baseball in that it's a team sport comprised largely of individual achievements. Football, as the ultimate team sport, pays huge dividends to team-building.
But in basketball, greatness doesn't take as long to develop or lie dormant for as long. Jabari Parker was immediately a badass. Wiggins took all of one half to look pretty damn great. Kentucky managed to win a title with nothing but noobs....though they did lose another one largely because of said youth.
It doesn't always work, but in college hoops, raw talent is usually going to trump team development and/or experience. Especially when these kids have played together for 30+ games by the time the post-season rolls around.
To me, that's why the regular season doesn't mean a damn thing. With so many teams making the post-season, it's essentially 30 games of pre-season for a 3 week tournament.