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[QUOTE="Horn88, post: 2976291, member: 7087"]
Their stock rose because of their performance while NBA scouting departments were evaluating them. The fact they were shown on CBS or ESPN was not a primary reason or why they heard of these players.

I don't think people realize what professional scouting departments do. They aren't fans watching games on the couch and forming opinions like the casual message board poster. They travel to games all over the country and watch them in person, they reach out to all kinds of people that have known these players since they were in junior high, they interview them, they run them through intense workouts, they take metrics and data and plug it into advanced models to try and project the ceiling and floor of the player based on the data of thousands of past prospects, etc.

The biggest loss as Trueblue mentioned is that he doesn't have a year of game tape for scouts to evaluate. Other than that the other developmental differences are negligible one way or the other.
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