Well, you were the one who stated that Saniya "is not as good a player at this point," which brought up a whole different skew than the OP stated. The hope was that Saniya would get the same boost as Stewie, which was quickly followed by ES pointing to MoJeff as another example of a big boost going into soph year. You say you don't think she's capable of it. Indeed, showing the huge type of progress that MoJeff has made this year is not easy, but I see no reason to relegate Saniya to the second tier as someone who can't make the cut in the Hunger Games. And who besides you is comparing Saniya to Stewie??? Saying that Saniya can have the same proportional leap as last year's NCAA MOP did to her present consistent status is not futile and has no connection with anyone saying she can be as good as Stewie. Our Ossining girl is quite capable of having the kind of huge boost that many other Huskies have had going into their soph year.
No one said anything about being
as good as Stewie flat out (myself included). The first poster says says, "If Saniya gets the same soph boost as Breanna..."
So that person brought up Stewie's growth. I contend that Stewart's jump was significant, mainly because she's a rare player. And I replied that comparing her to Stewie (in that light was inferred) is not realistic. Hardly out on a limb there.
My argument was that MoJeff's and Stewart's and Mojeff's jumps are unusual. The vast majority of UConn players don't make that big of a jump. With MoJeff we are talking about average sub to damn near AA status (probably should be). In one year. How many others have done that (your words were "many other Huskies")?
Look I get that it's an "our girl" thing, but I'm just trying to evaluate a basketball player.
And again, you can't just throw out stats with the bath water just because they don't always tell a complete story or some posters misuse them. Until you get your perfect picture system set up, in this real world most of us will try to stick to the facts.
There is no perfect empirical system. But stats are often laid down as, "there it is. there's the proof. That's all we have to go on." That's a cop out to me. In reality, stats are one of several lenses. I don't say throw them out, but they are only a piece of the picture. People often don't like that because it's a grey area. And grey areas are uncomfortable. Again, for example, the stats (facts) say DT's senior year was good, but not other wordly. Yet when watching, taking into account all factors, it wasn't hard to tell that DT was the best player in the country.
Stats are facts in and of themselves, but not THE answer.
She just had rotten teammates last year on that NC team? And you also downplayed Saniya's "less critical" minutes when actually she played some important minutes when KML was out, like the 27 minute and 16 point effort against PSU. Both players also had big stretches of minutes in less pressure packed situations, but that's not a great reason to try to throw out the stats and say you just have a gut feeling that Saniya won't be next year's soph surprise.
I didn't say throw out stats. Simply that you can't rely on them completely, as they are only a piece of evaluation.
Hey, I hope Saniya proves me wrong and becomes an All American next year.
