Watch Your Mouth, Ric Bucher

ESPN Insiders were treated to an article, written by Ric Bucher, about how NBA GMs view March Madness. Here's a paragraph from that article.

And there's one more factor that makes tourney scouting a risky business. Many general managers believe that some college coaches don't play their best young players as much as the players' talent warrants, in order to keep them in school longer. But once teams get to the tournament, winning becomes the primary focus, and their playing time increases. If they respond with a great tournament run, as May's teammate, Marvin Williams, did as a freshman in 2005, the thinking goes, "Man, he could've been doing this all year." Not surprisingly, Williams vaulted up draft boards.

I think the insinuation that Roy held Marvin back from starting because he was trying to hide his talent is a little ridiculous. Roy is a student of Dean Smith. In the Dean Smith era of college basketball, one and done freshmen weren't really in anyone's consciousness, so holding back a freshman in the hopes of keeping him another year would be an absurd idea. Dean Smith gave playing time preferentially to upperclassmen because they've earned it, not because he's trying to hurt a player's career.
That article also, by the way, uses Sean May as evidence of a player being overly touted because of a dominating March/April performance, and then being a bust in the NBA. Sean May is 24 years old. Let's give him a couple more years before we decide he's a bust.