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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 1015637, member: 405"]
I don't automatically say every kid should stay.  Jonny Flynn was all he could be.

Donte Greene, however, didn't rebound and was basically a 3 point shooter and ran the break well on the finishing end of lobs from Flynn.

C.J. had nowhere to go.  He wasn't a first rounder last year, so he rolled the dice to see if he could improve his stock this year.  No harm in that.  The kid got his degree, and he'll be a 2nd round pick, just like he would have been last year.

Ennis isn't physically ready to play defense in the NBA or to finish at the rim.

Michael Carter-Williams lacked an outside shot, but he worked on that really well over the summer.  But if anyone has gone back and checked on his stats, he has fallen way back from where he was shooting it in the first month of the season.  The shot doctor did more for him than his NBA coaches.  Probably bad habits have crept back in because of the relentless nature of the game in the NBA - endless games and tons of travel.  How much do they actually practice in the NBA?

Grant couldn't get on the court in the NBA right now.  He has no outside shot and he's too skinny to defend people his size.  He lacks the handle to play the 3 and he's too skinny for the 4 right now.  He's got to fix the same kind of problems in his game that Hakim Warrick had.

Fab Melo - probably best that he went.  He had problems staying eligible, was immature and had trouble staying in shape.  If you don't gave the right frame of mind and work ethic, the extra year in college won't do you any good, although he did salvage getting drafted after his awful first season in college.
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