at least partly

but i felt that he would be the one to go-- and actually have a chance at making it in the NBA.

...He's not ready, either.  You know that, Frank.  He's GONNA be ready.  He will (unlike DC) be an NBA player, but he's not an NBA player now.  Hey, those guys in the NBA are tough.  They'll take your lunch money.  They've been shaving since they were six.  I think I see in E5, a touch of tenderness that would benefit him (his game, fluidity, monetarily) if he stayed one more year.  Sure, he'll be drafted, sure he'll get a lot of money, but he won't play much and one day he'll be thinking of U of L and maybe he should have stayed one more year.  
He could have been UP THERE.  I mean, WAY UP THERE in Card Folklore.  I'm talking Wesley, Beard, Darryl, Lancaster, Jeff Hall, Pancho Wright UP THERE.  He could have been PADGET up there.  But now that best he'll ever be is the top of the second echelon.  Tell me where I'm going wrong?