I haven't seen anyone address the difference between getting a player ready for the NBA versus putting together a winning team. Is this a chicken and egg thing or is it just a lot of bs on that high school coaches part.
One thing that most of us agree on is JB's ability to take players who were not highly ranked coming out of high school and turning them into good college players. I guess he's failed if he doesn't make them NBA ready.
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I think if a player is going to go pro after one year or even two, that whatever college coach it is has little to do with his ability to play at the next level Guys like Calipari are given credit for his ability to get guys "NBA ready" even though they are only his stead hardly long enough for him to make a difference, at least in terms of developing skills ready for the NBA. It's very rare for a player like Fab Melo to come in and stink up the joint only to have a coaching staff revive him from the dead. I think more often than not only marginal four year players have any true difference made as far as if they can play in the NBA, everyone else was going anyways, often without sufficient knowledge, and if they are great players, then they will be great, developing at the next level instead of in the NCAA's
