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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1765768, member: 289"] That's the big question for me. If a guy isn't a can't miss prospect, we are probably talking about the D-league. Is his body/game really going to develop better there than it would have here? Are D-league facilities better than the Melo Center? Does the coaching he'll get really exceed the coaching he'd get here? What about the atmosphere: the Dome vs. a D-League game and the prospect of winning a championship people care about? Wouldn't it be more stimulating to develop your body, skills, mind and personality here? Isn't the D league a bus man's holiday, where something they've always done for fun and excitement becomes just a job? I honestly have no idea if players develop better in the D-league than in college. I'm not sure any of us really do. I always had the concept that the NBA is a very exclusive league with a new truckload of prospects arriving every year and if you want to make it there, you need to maximize your abilities before you present yourself to the NBA or you are likely to be tossed aside. But it seems NBA teams have two reasons for drafting a player: either he's a can't miss prospect who could become your franchise player or he's and unknown quantity who could become a good player and if he does, you'd rather it be your good player than your rival's good player. Most teams feel they have the pieces they need or at least better pieces than are available in the draft and if they need to fill a gap they'd probably rather have a veteran player or somebody who has been playing with a pro team in Europe anyway. Meanwhile the kids just see dollar signs. if someone tells they could could make a million dollars this year but 5 million if they waited a year, they never hear anything beyond they could could make a million dollars this year and they think that's a bottomless pit of money, so they declare. There should probably be only one round of the NBA draft with everyone else being a free agent with no guaranteed money. And we should probably not agonize over the decisions of a teenager, whether a recruit or a freshman dreaming of NBA money. The decision won't be made by us and it won't be made based on criteria that make any sense to us and we won't have to live with it. Just wait until Midnight Madness and see who emerges from the locker room. [/QUOTE]

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