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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1301817, member: 40"]
Lots of teams aren't Kentucky.  Lots of teams get by at the collegiate level without having NBA draft talent.

You are making the mistake of viewing having some as equating to automatic success.  Grant and Ennis were good players, not great players, and their draft status reflected that.  They could have turned into great players had they stayed, but they didn't stay.  And I'm not turning this into a debate on whether they made the right decision or not, because it is irrelevant to this conversation.  But its not like either one of those guys was a game changing talent.  Ennis might have been if he'd stayed / improved, but as a frosh--as impressive of a year as he had, he wasn't transcendent.

I'm so tired of the "excuse" excuse.  So overused on this forum.  The bottom line is that we just weren't that good last year; the team lacked a few key ingredients.  And we just aren't that good this year.  Despite that, we've come a long way and we've improved quite a bit from where we were at the beginning of the year.

I'm watching the Wisconsin game right now--they have tremendous offense, and [U]maybe[/U] 1 NBA player.  You don't have to have a million NBA prospects on the team to field competent offense.
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