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[QUOTE="HoustonCuse, post: 1016583, member: 87"]
My point is, once you enter the NBA, the clock is ticking. If you are LeBron James - great, the ticking counts down the time till your next highly lucrative contract. If you are a borderline NBA talent, or a young kid with maturity issues, it is a clock ticking like the expiration date on ground beef. Its funny how difficult we all acknowledge it is for a guy like Roberson to go from being THE MAN at the HS level to being a role player or bench player in college. We all know it is true, there are maturity issues, ego issues, the sudden need to work your ever loving buttoff just to keep one nostril above the water when it was all so easy before, getting coached like you're not the super stud, etc. Now take a guy like Grant who is certainly above average in college but will be probably the worst player on whatever NBA team drafts him (and that is not a shot at the kid, it is just fact when you look at the personnel in the NBA and Grant not even being All-Conference in a down ACC). How will he react? Is he ready to handle that? Is he ready to still get to a high performance level while his rotten meat timer is ticking away? I don't know these answers. I do know that if you matured for another year you have a higher chance at succeeding in that environment and if that year caused your draft stock to drop severely, you know you weren't going to make it anyway (thus all you missed was a late first round payday - which I admit is substantial but not compared to an actual careers worth of earnings in the NBA).
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