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[QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 1228146"]
Can we please stop pretending that playing for Kentucky gets a one-and-done's draft stock bumped up higher than being a one-and-done on any elite level basketball team?  Stats are stats.  If you can be dominant at Kentucky, you can be dominant anywhere else.  Yes, Kentucky is the sexy pick but no level-headed recruit (A crazy assumption, I know) is going to say, "well, Kentucky will get me in the lottery, whereas my production at another major school won't count as much because I'm not in a Kentucky uniform; I better just be safe and go to Kentucky.  After all, nobody else has ever produced a lottery pick."

Also, stop ignoring our lottery picks that weren't Centers.  Put simply, we haven't had great Centers.  Rak and Coleman wouldn't have been lottery picks anywhere else.  Again, it's debatable whether or not recruits realize this, but that doesn't change the fact that our coaches didn't somehow hold them back.  And we've shown a strong ability to produce lottery picks over the last 5 seasons.

Rak's production this year should show to Bryant that a Center can be very productive in our system.  And no, the fact that Rak needed to wait to get this shot, shouldn't indicate to Bryant that he'll have to wait.  He should know and know that the coaches know he'll be ready from day one.
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