There's a major jump in competition for basketball players going from high school to the college level, but the leap is even more significant from college to the pros. It's hard to project just how good a player is going to be in the NBA at the start of his career despite dominance in college or the preps.
Several of the college players taken in June's NBA draft are projected to be stars—teams wouldn't have wasted a pick on them if they weren't—but not necessarily during their rookie seasons. Just because someone has talent doesn't make him immediately "NBA-ready," since most rookies either play limited minutes that first season or struggle to produce in a larger role.
From the 2010-11 season, only 12 NBA rookies who played college ball managed to register 0.1 or better in the advanced statistic win shares per 48 minutes, which gauges how much that player contributed to a team's performance. According to Basketball-Reference.com, 0.1 is the NBA average for WS/48, and just three college-trained rookies topped that mark this past season: former Kentucky standouts Karl-Anthony Towns (0.151) and Willie Cauley-Stein (0.13) and Texas alum Myles Turner ...
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