re: Next year LSU basketball making room

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I disagree. But in either case, what it comes down to is whether he wants to risk another year of college and not earning 2nd round/free agent money for coming back and improving his game enough to get into the first.

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You don't have to agree or disagree, the fact is it's not what the NBA is looking at anyways. He's not going to magically become shut down post defender in 1 more year, or 4 more years. He's a leaper and blocks shots, that's his defensive plus ability.

It you look at this year and last year for Mickey, he really hasn't drastically improved anything (which isn't a bad thing, because he was already very good last season) except rebounding. So there's really very little room for improvement after this year, in terms of his NBA stock. The only way he could drastically improve his NBA stock is becoming a big time threat from the mid-range or long-range. This is what NBA scouts would love to see, as he's aundersized PF. Right now he takes and makes 1-2 mid-range jump shots a game and is almost zero threat from deep. His play style hasn't changed in that aspect from last year to this year, and it wouldn't by coming back yet another year.