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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1031643, member: 40"]
RIGHT.  So quit trying to pretend that merely going is good, and has anything to do with carving out career longevity.  Player either have the chops, or they don't.  Or they have a unique skill that they are awesome at, or they don't.  Or they are big and tall and thus team are willing to take a chance on them, or they aren't.

Both sides have it correct, frankly.  There is better competition in the NBA, and coaching available at different times that in college.  But once you make the jump, the dynamics of the professional season are quite different in the NBA than in college, and players don't necessarily even get practice time as consistently when they are in the course of the season. In some weeks where teams are on the road, they might only have shoot arounds and walk-throughs--which is quite different than what some believe, with unlimited practice time playing against the best in the world extravaganza that some incorrectly believe the NBA season to be.  Especially if they don't get the same type of minutes that they would in college [even accounting for the longer NBA season], or get demoted to the D-League.

It is intellectually dishonest [or ignorant] to assert the former without acknowledging the latter.
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