About grit? Love has it -- and plenty more NBA attributes

Doyel: Ty, Ty, Ty again | Parrish: No comparison here

In the NBA, Kevin Love will be Wes Unseld and that's pretty damn good.

Kevin Love has reason to smile, he has the natural tools to succeed in the NBA. (Getty Images)

In the NBA, Tyler Hansbrough will be Corky Calhoun and that's pretty damn bad.

Poor Doyel. Like many of you, he has been duped by a Hansbrough-slurping media portraying the North Carolina forward as the grittiest biped ever. Grittier than grit. Grittier than dirt. Grittier than those grits you slap butter on and eat with turkey bacon.

Hansbrough is like heroin to the media.

Meanwhile, there's Love, a player most people in the eastern portion of the country hadn't even seen until recently. Don't lie. You know what I'm talking about. If you live on the East Coast his games are on obscure Fox channels you can't find and airing so late they're sandwiched between reruns of Maury and Cheaters.

We can debate forever who the better player is right now but let's discuss what counts the most: who will be the better player in the NBA?

You'll have to excuse Doyel's NBA ignorance. Doyel couldn't project NBA talent if you gave him a catapult and Red Auerbach's corneas.

But I can.

Love is faster, stronger and a better shooter.

See, I can scout my butt off.

Don't give me how Hansbrough's "determination" will help to separate him from Love in professional basketball. The UCLA player is plenty gritty himself. He must be since Love has carried a less talented team than North Carolina's on his back to the Final Four.

Analyzing both men's NBA potential is pretty simple. It's stealing money.

First, Love is naturally stronger. He's got what the late New York Giants general manager George Young used to call bear strength. Imagine what will happen when Love actually starts hitting the weights. That natural body size will help Love greatly on the next level.