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[QUOTE="pfister1, post: 3194658, member: 285"]
In fairness that is a survey of just a couple of players.  Since 2014-15 I think there are only 9 players that had been in the program at least 3 years by their last year here.   Development typically implies improvement over time with the amount of time required being different for everyone, but less than 3 years in the program is typically not considered to be much time.

Frank Howard
  Tyus Battle
  Pascal Chukwu
  Tyler Roberson
  Dajuan Coleman
  Trevor Cooney
  Michael Gbinije
  Chino Obokoh
  Rakeem Christmas

Would you say all of those guys didn't develop?   Personally I think the shorter roster because of sanctions and a failure to manage the roster left us without a good mix of both players that had developed and youngsters.   That caused us to feed guys like OB big minutes earlier than they might have otherwise gotten, in turn allowing them to position themselves to leave earlier than might otherwise have been the case.

In any case my point is that at least half those guys above developed and gotten better, some  (Gbinije, Battle and Christmas) were even extremely good/great by their final years here.   Howard and Cooney were solid 4 year contributors that were probably leaned on for more than they were capable, due to weaker supporting casts.

Roberson definitely backslid and never put it together.    Coleman was always injured...did he fail to develop or fail to get healthy?    I would agree that Chukwu failed to develop, although I also think he was taken on as a high upside project and then got pushed into a bigger role because the roster never shook out as expected.    I think Obokoh was essentially a practice body that was never expected to contribute in games.
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