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[QUOTE="Sgt Cuse, post: 259553, member: 1701"]
JB has failed in teaching his players the game of basketball?  Wow.  That seems off the wall.  I've seen so many players improve throughout their years.
 
It seems like you and Zelda are applying the recent success of SUs recruiting and applying it to JBs entire tenure and then using it against him.  He has only recently attracted the cream of the crop, and for that brief period in the late 80s.  The rest of the time he built his squad with players he developed in-house.  JB has won with a lot of players he identified early and then developed into very good college players - AO, RJ, Rautins.  Using the NBA as the yard stick for showing that a coach can teach basketball makes no sense.  There are players that do not need to go to college and will still be good NBA players - ie LeBron.
 
I think your analysis helps the case of the opposite point you were attempting to make, that JB is a good coach.  JB has not had great talent and has had to make do with his home grown talent.  When he has had the elite players, as shown by the NBA excellence, he has succeeded, Carmelo and DC. 
 
It bodes well for what can happen with the uptick in recruiting.  And this past year shows it can happen.
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