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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 1015632, member: 405"] I agree that there's not guarantee you'll improve your draft stock. Sometimes players' limitations get exposed. But for people to say that it's an automatic decision that you ought to go, they're simply wrong. You need to make the top 10 picks or so, maybe top 12 or 13. After that, the money isn't so big that you have to go if there are clear gaps in your game. If you look at C.J. last year compared to this year, the "holes" in his game were (a) can he be a go-to guy? (b) can he improve his ball handling? and (c) how good is his outside shot? He failed to improve in pretty much every area. He went from our top rebounder to our 2nd rebounder. His handle didn't get better, and now that people were looking to guard him at the 3 point line, his shooting percentage dropped by 20 points from three. [/QUOTE]