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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 2172022, member: 837"]
Don't disagree with any of that really. I might quibble a bit with the empty roster Lydon is looking at in the sense that Battle is a really nice player, at a minimum, and Thompson abysmal defense unfortunately obscured the story of just how phenomenal his frosh season was offensively. But either way, those three would be three nice horses to run with, IMO.

Regardless, it's a good post. I think the one thing I'd add, however, is that it's interesting to look at the players roy has brought in. Of the bigs the last few years -- Johnson, Meeks, Joel James, Hicks, Maye, Bradley -- not many of those guys scream NBA. Maybe Bradley. Even Johnson, who had a phenomenal senior season, didn't do anything in the NBA as yet (not sure if maybe there was an injury). The PGs (Berry/Paige) are both around 6-foot, so not prototypical nba guys. Even the 2s/3s, while there's been more talent, still haven't had nba scouts drooling -- mcadoo, poinson, jackson, nate britt, kenny williams, Tokoto (even though he left early), leslie mcdonald. You'd have to go back to Hairston to find the last first-rounder and even Justin Jackson is looking at the end of round 1 (was in the second round for many of the mock drafts pre-season and even during the season).

So maybe it's the system -- wouldn't doubt that has something to do with it -- and yes there's a ton of mcd's kids, but ultimately it seems like Roy has built a roster that develops each year and is pretty consistently flush with veteran players. That seems like the defining characteristic of these teams more so than pure talent.

Who knows, it's really tricky trying to recruit these days. That is the one true fact.
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