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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 3845025, member: 1329"] You're just wrong about this for college basketball. Having the best guy (or two) is not as devastating as it is in the NBA if your teammates are crap. See: Simmons, Ben, Young, Trae, and Fultz, Markelle. Especially if they can't fundamentally take over the game. Neither Duke or Watson are that good. They're not All American level. Watson needs to be fed (only took 2 shots in the 1st half) and we killed him personally on the glass and Duke can't score inside the perimeter very well (he was inefficient tonight, 91 ORTG).. How did we do when Jalen Adams was the best player on the court for both teams? The baseline for quality in the NBA is fairly high. So there's not going to be that big a gap between mediocre teammates and bad teammates. But the best players in the NBA are unfreakingbelievably good. Much better than the best players in college relative to average. But between decent college players and bad college players is a biiiig gap. The Breed guy that started for them tonight as a freshman and played 33 minutes would never even be considered for recruitment at UConn. We wouldn't even look at him. And they had [B]4 guys[/B] who played tonight who are worse than him. Their "next 3" after Watson and Duke are not pretty good! That's my point! It's a shooter who can't shoot, a mid major transfer who they benched earlier in the year but had to go back to him when the guy who replaced him got hurt, and a 300+ freshman recruit. And we lost to them by double digits! This is just flat unacceptable. [/QUOTE]

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