Lawrence was bad. No doubt about that. However, in addition to having Norm Roberts as a coach almost all of the talent he had around him was below his own level of talent. Hill got hurt. Mason was always hurt. Hamilton was pretty good, but that's where it ended.
Occasionally, Geno would score points, run the offense, rebound and d up. By his senior year, he was exhausted, and he was left with raw freshman to lead, and he started to phone it in. Still, while he was bad, he did improve over time, and we can point to games where he played with guts, and kept us competitive.
Turner became somewhat decent for about 4-5 games when Artest, Lopez, Z, Grant and Jessie were on the floor so that no one even bothered to guard him. He was overmatched as a freshman, and so was Lawrence. YET, as a freshman, Lawrence had nothing to work with. Turner walked onto the court and he was surrounded by NBA talent.
All he had to do was get the damn ball to Hamilton and Lopez, and he couldn't handle it. He couldn't dribble. He couldn't pass. He couldn't play defense. He couldn't board.
I'm happy for how his life has turned out, but that is a tribute to Tarik and the University he went to. At the end of day he is a success, because it's student athlete before anything else. That is an advertisement for the school.