Purple Haize wrote:Wasn't UKs center like 6'5 about 2 years ago and is now 7'?
LeBron projected in 8th grade
Also a handful of others
Sebastian Telfair
Greg Odom
Kenny Anderson
Damon Bailey - who then threw up a turd. As coach Knight sais 'i've never had a player do less with more'
Kevin Garnett
Shawn Kemp
Seriously, you use Damon Bailey as a guy to help justify your argument? Dude played 4 years in college.
You know who else was projected to be a one-and-doner or even straight to NBA even as late as senior year of high school? Below are a few I can remember just looking at recruiting rankings from Rivals
2003 Class - Shannon Brown (remember when he was the higher ranked PG than Chris Paul?), Charlie Villanueva, Mustafa Shakur
2004 Class - Rudy Gay, Jeremy Lamb, Joe Crawford, Randolph Morris, LaMarcus Aldridge, Darius Washington, Juan Palacios
2005 Class - Josh McRoberts, Julian Wright, Keith Brumbaugh, Brandon Rush
2006 Class - Chase Budinger, Lopez brothers, Darrell Arthur
2007 Class - Kyle Singler, DeAndre Jordan, Donte Greene, Jerryd Bayless, Patrick Patterson, Soloman Alabi
2008 Class - Demar Derozan, Scotty Hopson, Greg Monroe, Willie Warren (interestingly, he was 13 spots higher than teammate Blake Griffin)
2009 Class - Renardo Sidney, Jordan Hamilton, Avery Bradley
2010 Class - Won't include the guys who surely would have gone had the lockout not happened (Sullinger, Barnes, Knight); CJ Leslie, Doron Lamb, Josh Smith.
2011 Class - LeBryan Nash, Quincy Miller. Pretty mucha ll the projected one-and-dones went this year except two Baylor players. Interestingly, Baylor has had three should be one-and-doners grossly underperform the last two season.