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Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
06-16-2016, 10:50 AM
This might belong on a different thread - NBA Draft or something - but there's so many different angles that relate to Duke ball that I thought I would post a new thread. Feel free to merge if appropriate.

Here's ESPN's take (http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/16237629/ten-years-nba-one-done-rule-no-less-controversial) on the effects - intended and otherwise of the "one and done" rule.

elvis14
06-16-2016, 11:30 AM
Love this part of that article:

Five-star 2017 prospect Hamidou Diallo (http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/player/_/id/207012/hamidou-diallo), a target of both Duke and Kentucky, explained the difference between the two schools' pitches to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Kentucky's pitch was just the NBA thing," Diallo said. "Duke's pitch was if you come to Duke, you're going to be set for life."
On May 9, in a blog post for his own site, Calipari described the latter pitch as "preposterous." "Our approach," he wrote, "is to give them the fishing rod and the lures to help them catch fish, not to just give you the fish."
Eleven days later, five-star 2016 forward Marques Bolden (http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/player/_/id/186685/marques-bolden) chose to attend Duke. His second choice was Kentucky.
The official Duke basketball Twitter account responded with an epic subtweet: A couple of dozen fire emoji, and then a fishing rod, and then some fish.

MarkD83
06-19-2016, 12:48 PM
So since Michael Jordan can't evaluate basketball talent david stern created the one and done rule.