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Originally Posted by pgardn
Now give the failures.
Start with the superstar Laettner. The Spurs drafted Johnny Dawkins and Gene Banks. They were big disappointments. The list is long... I dont want to go through them all. Many highly reguarded going into the draft. The guys you put up are hardly superstars.
I will give you that Hill and Brand could be remembered as very good players but because they are so injury prone. They are hardly superstars.
Maggette would be the anti-Duke type.
Putting Dunleavy up there... sort of embarassing.
Deng... has just not played long enough to make any statement.
Boozer has been a nice the nice surprise imo.
Sorry thats a very short list for a team that is tops in college
basketball. Which I must give K credit for. He does a good
job with the kids he gets.
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How could you even put those guys up there as failures when compared to Mateen Cleaves and Shawn Respert? Either way, that isn't the point. Duke has had far more successful NBA players than Michigan State in the past 15 years yet Michigan State has been almost as successful. Can you really think of anyone else that had three solid pros or less that has been anywhere remotely close to as successful as Michigan State in that time? I think the job Izzo does there is extremely underrated.