I know Boatright is pretty small....

[Mr.Phat]

After reading all these messages I wanted to add: is Boatright THE best playing recruit at this stage in the Calhoun era? I don't remember Calhoun ever having a player who has stepped in so quickly (two games) and contributed so much. He plays like a seasoned junior. Maybe I'm overstating his Arkansas performance, he hasn't faced BE defenses yet and it's only two games but this kid is unreal so far. Donyell? Rip, RA? El Amin? Gordon? Who was playing like Showboat (and I mean that in the best sense) after two games?

 

[jleves]

After reading all these messages I wanted to add: is Boatright THE best playing recruit at this stage in the Calhoun era? I don't remember Calhoun ever having a player who has stepped in so quickly (two games) and contributed so much. He plays like a seasoned junior. Maybe I'm overstating his Arkansas performance, he hasn't faced BE defenses yet and it's only two games but this kid is unreal so far. Donyell? Rip, RA? El Amin? Gordon? Who was playing like Showboat (and I mean that in the best sense) after two games?

I can't find the box scores for the first two games, but ElAmin averaged 16pts, 4.2 assists and had a 1.56 A/TO ratio for his freshman year. Pretty good numbers. I think I would be happy with Boat achieving that for the year. Maybe closer to the 2.0 A/TO ratio.

 

[tzznandrew]

Khalid is certainly who came to mind in response to this.

 

[caw]

I can't find the box scores for the first two games, but ElAmin averaged 16pts, 4.2 assists and had a 1.56 A/TO ratio for his freshman year. Pretty good numbers. I think I would be happy with Boat achieving that for the year. Maybe closer to the 2.0 A/TO ratio.

PTS, RPG, APG

Ben Gordon had a mediocre first game with 8, 5 and 2, but followed that with 23, 6 and 5 and then 19, 4 and 5.
Kemba was similar with 8, 3 and 5 then 21, 5 and 2 and 23, 3 and 4
Caron had 20, 4 and 0 then 21, 12 and 5 then 15, 9 and 3 (jeez he was a beast)
KEA had 23, 2, 5 and 5 steals, then 10, 1 and 6 then 23, 2 and 3

http://statsheet.com/mcb/teams/connecticut

No clue how accurate that site is, but it seemed to jive with what I remembered.

 

[jleves]

PTS, RPG, APG

Ben Gordon had a mediocre first game with 8, 5 and 2, but followed that with 23, 6 and 5 and then 19, 4 and 5.
Kemba was similar with 8, 3 and 5 then 21, 5 and 2 and 23, 3 and 4
Caron had 20, 4 and 0 then 21, 12 and 5 then 15, 9 and 3 (jeez he was a beast)
KEA had 23, 2, 5 and 5 steals, then 10, 1 and 6 then 23, 2 and 3

http://statsheet.com/mcb/teams/connecticut

No clue how accurate that site is, but it seemed to jive with what I remembered.

Cool site - pretty charts!

 

[Mr.Phat]

Cool site - pretty charts!

I completely forgot Caron! snow.

 

[jleves]

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PTS, RPG, APG

Ben Gordon had a mediocre first game with 8, 5 and 2, but followed that with 23, 6 and 5 and then 19, 4 and 5.
Kemba was similar with 8, 3 and 5 then 21, 5 and 2 and 23, 3 and 4
Caron had 20, 4 and 0 then 21, 12 and 5 then 15, 9 and 3 (jeez he was a beast)
KEA had 23, 2, 5 and 5 steals, then 10, 1 and 6 then 23, 2 and 3

http://statsheet.com/mcb/teams/connecticut

No clue how accurate that site is, but it seemed to jive with what I remembered.

One thing to consider in comparing the first games, the 4 above were playing against the cupcakes of the first week of the season while Boat has done it against major D1 teams.