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[QUOTE="bpo57, post: 1418094, member: 1572"]
Yours is essentially he has what it takes. We disagree but you're right, we will see how it will turn out.

I'm not saying those views on former SU players were a wide consensus but I absolutely recall several bullish predictions on all of them. Either your memory is faulty or you just immediately dismissed some of those crazy predictions out of hand. Just go back three months ago and the board was full of "Rak is a first round lock" predictions. I remember reading plenty of posts that Southerland was going to be an NBA 3 ball threat, meanwhile he couldn't cover the team trainer.

Rak is going to be 24 in December. That alone makes a 10+ year NBA career very, very unlikely. He was an underachiever for three years at SU.  Last year he had an excellent year and kudos to him for raising his game. Is it fair to question why we didn't see that improvement over the two previous campaigns?

I personally think college hoops was very down this year.  The # of quality front lines that SU played against was minimal.  Okafor for sure. The UNC frontline was decent. The rest? Meh.

I think he will struggle mightily to cover centers and will get exposed trying to cover stretch fours. It's on the defensive end where I think he will struggle. He has enough offensive talent but the key to me is how he rebounds and defends.
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