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[QUOTE="Ghost, post: 1726068, member: 581"]
With absolutely no insight into the process, I would say the big difference is once you hit the NBA it's a lot more about how self-motivated you are.  You have free time, money, distractions and if you aren't an Andrew Wiggins, you aren't going to be the priority.

If you're a mid to late round first round pick, or second round guy, they develop you in time for you to leave - to a certain extent it's not worth their time to go all out developing you.  If you don't want to put the work in, they can take the hit.

In college, you're all in.  The coaches are still dictating everything to you, you're still gunning for the NBA, the motivation is there and you will get better.  In the NBA, eh, if you're having a lot of fun, and not putting in the work, you'll get passed over quickly and you may never notice it happening till you're overseas.

Who is that self-aware though to judge if they're that self-motivated?  It's sort of like what JB said when speaking about kids giving effort, if you ask them they all think they're going 100% all of the time - if you show them the tape though, you can actually show them that they're not, and they don't get it until then.  ([I]I think he was speaking about Roberson when he said this[/I])

If you're Wiggins, you're a franchise guy, they're going to put a lot of effort into ensuring you make it.  Getting up into that range is huge, but that's only a handful of dudes.

You read that some teams, like the Pelicans are great with player development, and others suck.  I'm sure the team matters a lot too.
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