As we Pitt fans watched Dejuan's disastrous draft drop, some couldn't help but pull the "shoulda" card on the big fella. "Thats why he shoulda stayed at Pitt", "He coulda been a lottery pick if he woulda came back!" Stop right there. Put that card right back where it came from. Dejuan's decision to enter the draft was the right decision, and his drop did nothing but prove that.
Blair's drop had nothing to do with his college game, his development, or his age-it had to do with his flagged body. A body that would only get more wear and tear in the Big East Paint, a body that could suffer injuries from taking on the best centers in the league, and a pair of knees that could fall apart on him at any time. That is, after all, a large reason why he entered the draft anyways. If he happened to get banged up bad this year or if his knees began to deteriorate like doctors are confident they could, we wouldn't see the Big Fella in the first 2 rounds of the draft at all.
Blair doesn't have any regrets, and why should he? He saw before his eyes the issues that almost every NBA team had with his knees, and if it caused such a drop this year, then he probably didn't even want to think about if he had stayed next year. I'm not a doctor, but I do know his bad knees would still be, well, bad.
Look, you can call him prideful and stubborn. You can label this a hubris-caused downfall and say that he should've stayed and worked on his jumpshot (teams will surely draft him for that..). But in the end, Blair did the right thing. The draft proved it right before his eyes.
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