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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 5152980, member: 71"] Yes, Castle absolutely took a lesser role offensively to be part of an exceptional team. The role any given player has is very dependent on the talent surrounding him. I thought I was clear in how I specified my comment but evidently I wasn't and now I wish I hadn't made that comment. I stated scorer instead of offensive player as there are more things to offense than being the guy who put the ball in the basket (although that is a major part of it). KEA as a freshman facilitating the offense would be a great argument even with Liam being as skilled a shooter as he has shown so far. I believe that if Ray was a freshman on many other UConn teams he would easily have exceeded what any freshman here did as a scorer. I also believe that if all freshman were the age Caron was his freshman year (he turned 21 before the season ended) there would have been a few who could claim an overall impact at a level similar to Caron. Yes, Castle was an alltime great player here even with only one season's worth of contributions and his on ball defense as a true freshman was impressive beyond anything I could have ever expected any true freshman being capable of. He also scored very well, when needed at the basket and often inside the arc. I'm confident that more volume would have also improved his three point shooting. One thing I don't want is for this to end up as a pi$$ing contest over who was better than who. [/QUOTE]