Leading Scorer Poll

[ddent68]

First thought was Newton but I’m going with Clingan. Most teams just won’t have an answer for him. Will depend on minutes.

 

[auror]

I think for November it will be Newton, but by March Castle will have overtaken him.

 

[McLovin]

I guessed Clingan will be our leading scorer because he’ll average like 4 PPG on second chance points.

We have a bunch of guys who are all capable of being 15+ PPG scorers at a high major level. But individual PPG ceilings will be capped because of how well this team shares the ball.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Really difficult question. It could be Newton but I'm surprised he's the runaway winner.

You can make a case for any of them, but I said DC. He's our best, least guardable player right now and as long as he stays on the court he's going to put up 15+ every night. All of those guys should be in the 12-15 range.

The issue I have with Clingan is he could have games where he scores 20 and is a focal point, and he could have games where the defense sells out to stop him and makes us beat them from the outside and he ends up with like 4 FGA. Thabeet had games like that.

 

[nomar]

The issue I have with Clingan is he could have games where he scores 20 and is a focal point, and he could have games where the defense sells out to stop him and makes us beat them from the outside and he ends up with like 4 FGA. Thabeet had games like that.

He's better offensively than Thabeet, who was extremely mechanical, but I agree he'll have some low-scoring games. Then again, everybody will have some low-scoring games with so many scorers on the floor.

 

[REB1094]

Sorry to bump an old thread but I think it’s a super interesting “race” going into the gauntlet part of our OOC -

1. Spencer 16.3 PPG
2. Newton 15.6
3. Clingan 15.0
4. Karaban 14.6
5. Castle 14.5

Less than 2 PPG difference between the 5 of them

 

[husky429]

Sorry to bump an old thread but I think it’s a super interesting “race” going into the gauntlet part of our OOC -

1. Spencer 16.3 PPG
2. Newton 15.6
3. Clingan 15.0
4. Karaban 14.6
5. Castle 14.5

Less than 2 PPG difference between the 5 of them

Pretty close to what many thought on here. There's enough talent on this squad to spread the wealth.

 

[CardiacAndre7]

I was certainly wrong with my Cam take. The averages of most if not all of them will go down a good bit during Big East play. I’m curious to see who comes out on top.

 

[Stinger92860]

I think all 5 starters will be within the 12-17 PPG range. No clue who ends up where though aside from Clingan likely being the one who is closer to the 17 PPG mark

Let’s be conservative and give the bench 10 a game. That would mean we average 82+ per game. Last year we were 78 I believe. It will be interesting to see how we trend. I know our D will usually be top 10.

 

[Scottzer]

I was certainly wrong with my Cam take. The averages of most if not all of them will go down a good bit during Big East play. I’m curious to see who comes out on top.

I thought for sure he was an 11-12 ppg game. And, that would make sense based upon his fga - basically the same as last year (9.9 fga / 13.2 ppg), but with 3 more ppg (10.1 fga/ 16.3). Granted, competition is about to step up, but I certainly didn’t predict an increase in efficiency on a new team.