AP preseason first team

[Samoo]

You can’t be this much a dumb selfish fan to think kids are coming here solely for the purpose of making you happy by winning.

do you own stock in Red Herring INC.?

 

[DRBackup]

Out of around 75,000 players in the timespan, they're within 8 spots. Kemba had a slump in conference play if you recall, shot 39.5% from the field. Wore down a bit. The Ben Hansbrough of it all. He's in the 99.98th percentile in the model.

Thing is, that chart is value while on the court. Fact is, that team wasn't great, outside of Kemba. Certainly they were better with him on the floor, but he average 37.6 minutes per game. There was not team without Kemba. LOL

That's a useful stat if you can differentiate how good the team was or wasn't depending on if someone was on the floor or not. Cooper Flagg, for instance, only played 30.7 minutes per game. Sitting for 2.5 minutes per game, the team's efficiency was Kemba's efficiency.

 

[Mr. French]

The whole exercise is futile because the base assumption is flawed.

It is possible for anyone to have a setback, everywhere, as a new transfer or even in the same system. Just look at Karaban last season. Players do generally get better year over year, but the improvement is not always linear and anyone can hit a bump in the road.

Your mid-major up-transfers can't become lottery players argument is asinine because it assumes that players in the same system always improve and that players can't find that "glove fit" in the portal in the first season. Lots of guys are awesome in year 1 at their new school, it's not an automatic "worse because learning new system" rule.

Just for example, but Reed was MUCH better at UConn this past year than Michigan the year before. He had no setback or slowdown, he took a big jump in year 1.

This is all obvious to most people. Good post.

 

[EBonz30]

Ala this year’s Tarris Reed.