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Cal, this isn't baseball, where juniors have better draft leverage. The way you improve in the NBA draft is by showing the pros that you can do what's required to succeed in the pro game, and you do that first and foremost on the court. Like Shabazz Napier, for example, who stayed his senior year, impressed people by leading an unlikely UConn team to the championship, and manufactured himself a first-round draft slot (#24, by the way, so toward the end, but still in the first round. By the way, he also wasn't hampered by age; he's 23, just like Cleanthony -- three months younger.)
At FVV's size, he has a lot more to prove than Napier did. Fred's a great player and a distinguished human being, even at his young age. His jersey will be hanging in Koch Arena someday, and rightly so. But because of the size issue, WSU has a better chance of winning next year's national championship than he does of being a sure-bet first rounder, which is the only circumstance under which it would make sense to consider leaving. So he isn't going anywhere any time soon.
And of course, none of this has anything to do with McDuffie, about whom all we need to know is that Marshall will find space and do so aboveboard if he decides to join WSU. But it's highly, HIGHLY unlikely that any maneuvering will involve FVV.
Cal, this isn't baseball, where juniors have better draft leverage. The way you improve in the NBA draft is by showing the pros that you can do what's required to succeed in the pro game, and you do that first and foremost on the court. Like Shabazz Napier, for example, who stayed his senior year, impressed people by leading an unlikely UConn team to the championship, and manufactured himself a first-round draft slot (#24, by the way, so toward the end, but still in the first round. By the way, he also wasn't hampered by age; he's 23, just like Cleanthony -- three months younger.)
At FVV's size, he has a lot more to prove than Napier did. Fred's a great player and a distinguished human being, even at his young age. His jersey will be hanging in Koch Arena someday, and rightly so. But because of the size issue, WSU has a better chance of winning next year's national championship than he does of being a sure-bet first rounder, which is the only circumstance under which it would make sense to consider leaving. So he isn't going anywhere any time soon.
And of course, none of this has anything to do with McDuffie, about whom all we need to know is that Marshall will find space and do so aboveboard if he decides to join WSU. But it's highly, HIGHLY unlikely that any maneuvering will involve FVV.
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