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[QUOTE="sufandu, post: 261924, member: 874"]
Lack of development in the NBA shouldn't reflect on what happened in college.  The reason guys like Coleman and Owens were drafted high in the first place was because of how good they were in college.  What happens after that is solely on them. 
 
If you're going to talk about development, you have to talk about the guys that weren't highly rated before stepping on campus too.  Rony Seikely went from "Rony who" to lottery pick.  Etan Thomas could barely catch a ball when he wasn't fouling out as a freshman, but he [B]developed[/B] into a lottery pick by the time he was a senior.  Hakim Warrick was barely rated in the top 100 in his class coming out of highschool and became a first round draft pick when all was said and done.
 
A great example of lack of development is Othella Harrington.  Points and rebounds per game as a freshman were 16.8 and 8.8,  fell to 14.7 ppg and 8.0 rpg as a sophomore, slipped further to 12.2 ppg and 6.0 rpg as a junior, and settled at 12.2 ppg and 6.9 rpg as a senior.  Some would say his numbers changed because of Allen Iverson, but that doesn't explain the drop from freshman to sophomore year prior to AI showing up. 
 
We can contrast that with the [B]development[/B] of John Wallace over the exact same time period.  He averaged 11.1 ppg and 7.6 rpg as a freshman, 15.0 ppg and 9.0 rpg as a sophomore, 16.8 ppg and 8.2 rpg as a junior, and 22.2 and 8.7 as a senior.  He also went from missing his 3 attempts from 3 his first two years to making 42% of his 88 attempts as a senior.
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