let's play "what if"

[Blueaz]

What if the NBA allowed player straight from high school; and what if these 7 went straight to NBA?
What if all of these guys went to the combine? How would draft position be different?
IMO and I truly believe most honest evaluations would be similar.
KAT improved a few spots (developing an inside game)
WCS would not even be sniffing the NBA
Lyles about the same
Booker improved position a vast amount
DJ about the same (his weight after high school would have killed his higher draft chances at the combine)
Twins about the same (their short comings would have come to the surface at the combine)
Soooo, were did Cal of UK hinder anyone's aspirations?

 

[kentuckykowboy8]

Twins DEFINITELY dropped. They would have been lottery bound straight out of high school. Everybody else you got dead on.

 

[bucsrule8872]

Hard to say, depends on who else is coming out. Did the guys in those drafts leave in HS? I mean is Towns competing with Wiggins, Parker, Randle, Embiid, etc. or did they go straight out of HS?

If there was never an Age Limit:

Twins- straight to the NBA. Probably both get drafted. Andrew in the first round (6'6 PG). Aaron in the second round.

Johnson- straight to the NBA. Late first round or early second because of his size.

Towns- straight to the NBA. Lottery pick.

Lyles- straight to the NBA, probably a mid to late first rounder.

Booker- goes to college most likely.

WCS- goes to college.

 

[Blueaz]

Twins DEFINITELY dropped. They would have been lottery bound straight out of high school. Everybody else you got dead on.

I gotta disagree IF they go to the combine...their weakness that were exposed in college would have been found then. I really do not think they would have been lotto...at best, very late first and mid second, at best