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[QUOTE="Quazzum69, post: 1222564, member: 2653"]
There's a difference between playing in front of an audience (several tens of thousands) and practicing in front of a few dozen people.

You can be the best player in the world in a gym with no one watching but once the cameras and lights are on, you play much differently.

Throw in Twitter, fan forums, ESPN, local media, students on campus commenting on your every play and you could see how a youngster could play with some nerves and not up to their potential. There are very few people (I would guess) that thrive in that atmosphere. It takes getting used to.

Everyone can agree that the mental aspect is just as important as the physical aspect so tell me how having zero experience in a high-pressure, stressful situation helps you play in those exact situations in the future? If practicing shooting (because you shoot in games) makes you shoot better, why wouldn't playing in front of people (because you play in front of people) make you play better at that?

(I still think if Rak got more EXPERIENCE and ENCOURAGEMENT in 2011-12 things would have turned out differently that year. I bet his career has a whole different trajectory and we beat Michigan and Dayton, too).
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