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THE RIGHT FIT

By Ric Bucher

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Breakouts and busts—every draft has them. Yet they're not as easy to peg as you'd think. A player lights it up with his draft team. Breakout, no? But what if he later takes big cash to play elsewhere and then bombs? And how do you explain a guy who gets chased from one town only to become the toast of another? In most cases, draft-day success depends on fit. All but the game-changingest of rooks are only one piece of a team's Rubik's Cube. Personal growth then rides less on talent than ...

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