Do you honestly realize how absurd your first sentence is.Our player development has been poor but we were putting kids in the NBA every year? huh. weird.
We didn't get Preston because we didn't pay. How many other kids? You say Duke and UK cheat. Quade Green and Jordan Tucker?
We didn't land Brunson because we had other PG's. We didn't land Jimmer Fredette either. Easy to cherry pick after the fact.
Player development HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH A PLAYER'S PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL UPSIDE.
15+ raw underdeveloped basketball players get drafted in the first round of the NBA draft. That has nothing to do with player development from a college basketball program.
My god. I don't know why I bother. It's mind numbing.