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<blockquote data-quote="aaeismacgychel" data-source="post: 2023363" data-attributes="member: 748794"><p>There was some serious talk nationally that offseason that if Andre took a step up his sophomore season with regards to being more in control of his plays and limiting the bad turnovers that he was going to be a lottery pick. He was viewed as one of the top college point guards that preseason and was on the Wooden, Naismith, and Cousy preseason watch lists. I think people forget how electric freshman year Curbelo truly was based on everything that happened with him after it. He was viewed as a possible generational PG at the time and in the alternate universe where Curbelo returned focused on improving his mental game and never got concussed multiple times in a 2 week period, at least one NBA team with a top 15 pick that year wouldn't have passed on the potential to be drafting a kid with the floor of Jason Williams. That talk all died out rather quickly, obviously, but yeah, Curbelo was in a pretty elite position going into sophomore year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aaeismacgychel, post: 2023363, member: 748794"] There was some serious talk nationally that offseason that if Andre took a step up his sophomore season with regards to being more in control of his plays and limiting the bad turnovers that he was going to be a lottery pick. He was viewed as one of the top college point guards that preseason and was on the Wooden, Naismith, and Cousy preseason watch lists. I think people forget how electric freshman year Curbelo truly was based on everything that happened with him after it. He was viewed as a possible generational PG at the time and in the alternate universe where Curbelo returned focused on improving his mental game and never got concussed multiple times in a 2 week period, at least one NBA team with a top 15 pick that year wouldn't have passed on the potential to be drafting a kid with the floor of Jason Williams. That talk all died out rather quickly, obviously, but yeah, Curbelo was in a pretty elite position going into sophomore year. [/QUOTE]
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