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Message: [QUOTE="Storrs South, post: 3426535, member: 7275"] I have not seen RJ play much, but I was looking through some numbers and found this interesting: [LIST] [*][URL='https://www.bigtengeeks.com/new-stat-porpagatu/']Points Over Replacement Per Adjusted Game At That Usage (PORPAGATU) [/URL]estimates how many more points per game a player creates than a hypothetical "replacement player" at their usage level. I think of this as similar to WAR in baseball. [*]RJ Cole in his final year at Howard had a PORPAGATU of 4.3 (the next closest on his team was 2.5) [*]For context on how good 4.3 is, that would be about top 75 in the country this season, top 85 last season of all the players in D-1 basketball [*]For even better context to the UConn fan, the last time we saw a player with a PORPAGATU better than 4.3 was Ryan Boatright in 2015 (5.2). Shabazz was 5.6 in 2014, Kemba was 7.5 in 2011 for some other UConn notables. [*]I am not expecting RJ to play at a Kemba/Shabazz level (if he does, fantastic), but factoring in that he was really the only threat at Howard, has already shown he can be a top performer against high major teams, and has a year to sit and learn Hurley's system that he could be a very nice player in Storrs [*]From purely looking at the numbers, he does not appear to be a three level scorer like Jalen Adams was (at the rim, midrange, three point), but seems to shoot well from deep, a pest on defense (2.7 stl/game), and gets to the foul line a ton (Free Throw Rate of 48.9, which accompanied an 81% FT%). [B]He was #9 in the country in made free throws in 2019. [/B]That's probably the most underrated part of his game. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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