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Message: [QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 2605217, member: 2932"] He had almost literally the best possible senior season someone could have and was drafted probably exactly where he would have been drafted a year before. He also shot 42 percent on a respectable number of threes as a senior after basically not taking them his first three years. Sure, there was a reason he went where he did (tho I will always be convinced it had more to do with his lackadaisical defense than his size or anything about his offensive game - he averaged 14 Ppg one year in the nba), and this reason was always there. But that’s probably true of all these guys, including battle. It’s possible he’ll improve in an unexpected way, possible he’ll regress, and probably most likely he (like JW) will be in the same place a year later. But JW did everything people say battle needs to do - expanded his game, showed he could shoot, and won on the biggest stage. It did him no good in terms of draft stock. [/QUOTE]