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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

My point with Bayless is that he needed to play more which he obviously would have in college. You cant help who drafts you but he seems like the type of player who is only going to get better by seeing minutes.

But I'm saying that by playing in college and getting minutes, it may have further hurt him. Take a guy like Harold Miner. I played against him in high school and he was a terror. Same thing when he want to college. But his college coach did him no favors by playing him the way he did. Anyone that watched knew that he wasn't going to be the type of post up player in the pros that he was in college. He needed to be working on what he would need to be good at on the next level. But instead, the coach used him in the way that was best for his team's success and not for Miner's future. I'm not saying he was wrong to do so but that's what happened. When Miner got to the NBA and had to play guard, he couldn't do it. By contrast, you look at how Curry was used at Davidson last year. Partly out of necessity but partly because he was helping him, the coach played Curry at the point to give him experience at the position he'd have to play in the NBA. If Bayless would have had a coach like Miner did, he might have gotten a lot of minutes and free reign of an offense but never had to develop the point guard skills. That would be fine if he went to a team that needed a shooting guard. Not so much by going to Portland. So college wouldn't have improved him, in my opinion, unless he would have been used as a point guard, which he more than likely wouldn't have been. I think he could play good minutes for someone in the NBA right now as a two guard.