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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5137335, member: 722"]
This line of reasoning is asinine and repeated often.

If, say Zion Williamson and Jayson Tatum had gone pro out of high school, they would have been the exact same players they are now.

Going to Duke did zero to help them.

If they had gone to Syracuse or North Dakota State, they still would have been lottery picks and extremely wealthy.

Indeed, look at the guys that Duke recruits and get lost in the shuffle, and actually hurt their careers.  There are more of them.

Every single top10 recruit that goes to Duke and doesn't go in the lottery should count against them in equal measure.

But even "fans" like you that supposedly root for another team roll out this meme like it's fact every time a guy elects to go to Duke or Kentucky.

Being a deep bench player at Duke and getting recruited over (usually before you even get to campus) and riding the bench doesn't help your career.

Cooper Flagg, Maluach and Ngongba are going to push Maliq Brown to the bench, for instance.

Thus, a guy who ought to have really improved his NBA prospects at Syracuse will have ended his chances by going somewhere else to be a bench warmer.

And yet the kids, and the adults around them, fall for it year after year.

It's annoying it happens, but it's even more annoying when my fellow Syracuse fans also drink the Kool Aid and pronounce how great it is to go to Duke.

If you are one of the true greats every season, it  doesn't matter where you go. Duke can only hurt you.
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