Bapopik

Most players from any college suck big in the NBA. Let's look at the Duke list.

Carlos Boozer--too soft, a cream puff??...Elton Brand--too soft, cream puff??...Luol Deng--too soft, cream puff??...Grant Hill--good player, and tremendous courage overcoming injury...Corey Maggette--fine offensive player...Shane Battier--hardly a cream puff...Chris Duhon--unheralded, but useful player...Christian Laettner--O.K. big...Danny Ferry---bust...Mike Dunleavy--overrated...Johnny Dawkins--played well for several years in the NBA.

DUKE/NETS: Jim Spanarkel--hey, I like his announcing...Mike Gminski--often injured, but probably one of the Nets' best NBA centers...Jay Williams--injury.

http://www.databasebasketball.com/pl...uke+University
NBA/ABA Players who attended Duke University

Abdelnaby, Alaa 1990-1994
Alarie, Mark 1986-1990
Armstrong, Tate 1977-1978
Avery, William 1999-2001
Banks, Gene 1981-1986
Battier, Shane 2001-2005
Boozer, Carlos 2002-2005
Brand, Elton 1999-2005
Crow, Mark 1977-1977
Davis, Brian 1993-1993
Dawkins, Johnny 1986-1994
Deng, Luol 2004-2005
Dennard, Kenny 1981-1983
Denton, Randy 1971-1976
Duhon, Chris 2004-2005
Dunleavy, Mike 2002-2005
Ewing, Daniel 2005-2005
Ferry, Danny 1990-2002
Gantt, Bob 1946-1946
Gminski, Mike 1980-1993
Groat, Dick 1952-1952
Henderson, Dave 1987-1987
Heyman, Art 1963-1969
Hill, Grant 1994-2005
Hurley, Bobby 1993-1997
Jones, Dahntay 2003-2005
Kennedy, Joe 1968-1970
Kistler, Doug 1961-1961
Laettner, Christian 1992-
Lang, Antonio 1994-1999
Langdon, Trajan 1999-2001
Lewis, Mike 1968-1973
Maggette, Corey 1999-2005
Marin, Jack 1966-1976
Mcleod, Roshown 1998-2000
Melchionni, Gary 1973-1974
Mullins, Jeff 1964-1975
Nessley, Martin 1987-1987
Parks, Cherokee 1995-2003
Randolph, Shavlik 2005-2005
Riedy, Bob 1967-1967
Spanarkel, Jim 1979-1983
Taylor, Vince 1982-1982
Vacendak, Steve 1967-1969
Verga, Bob 1967-1973
Williams, Jay 2002-2002

HB

I just hope you all realize the Nets are not looking to pick an allstar at 17. Mcroberts is a very talented player, you just have to hope he can be motivated to put it to good use, that is IF the Nets dont select Sean Williams who is a bigger question mark

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NetIncome

Exaggerated descriptions above worthy of North Carolina fan.

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HB

Really? How?

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kconn61686

Elton Brand, Carlos Boozer, Shane Battier, Luol Deng, and Shelden Williams could all help the Nets. 2nd most players in the NBA from any college

peg182

haha worthy-north carolina...get it?!?! haha NI, you're so funny

NetIncome

referring to babopik's descriptions.

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HB

My bad on that

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jarkid

haha what a good sarcasm from a Duke fan to a UConn Fan.

jirohkanzaki

we need a pf who can rebound and block shots but sean williams is too much of a risk at #17 and he has no offensive game as well and those types of players are obtainable from the d-league.

however, a skilled, passing big man is hard to find so i'm going with mcroberts even if smith is still on the board. he also plays with a lot of intensity. his negative is defense but smith is no defensive monster either. smith also played on a bad team in a non-major tournament.

tiago splitter if he slips is perfect but unless the nets already have a deal with his euro team in place then he is a big risk also.

ly_yng

Jason Smith looks like he could really develop into a great NBA player. Good athleticism, decent game, a hard worker, and most importantly, he had a crappy coaching staff in college that probably never taught him things like, a post game, or defense.

A little bit of a project I think, but worth taking a risk on.

I still like Splitter the most out of anyone we might be drafting.

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#1_Josh_Boone_Fan

Hey atleast we dont put creampff's into the NBA. For a school such as Duke to put as many Players into the NBA as they do you would think they would be half good.

Duke players benfit from the system, where as we UCONN put men into the NBA that can ball.

UCONN Players >>>>>>>>>>>>> Duke Players.

#1_Josh_Boone_Fan

I know, I am crying hard right now.

Kid Chocolate

Khalid El-Amin is the man!!!!!!!!!! Too bad he was soft from all those jelly donuts!