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[QUOTE="businesslawyer, post: 3432836, member: 55"]
I don't find that laughable by the way.  It's very hard to compare a player who became a fabulous role player for really talented teams to a player who has felt the need to do more than his share on much less talented teams.  If I compare senior Austrie to senior Vital, they were both good man defenders and foul shooters.  Vital is certainly a better rebounder.  Vital is also a better scorer, but it's on very high volume, against overall weaker competition and with many more mental errors than Craig made.  I don't think this team would be better if senior Austrie played instead of senior Vital, but I'm also not sure '09 would have been better if senior Vital was playing instead of senior Austrie.

I have no problem concluding that Vital, just based on numbers, can be said to have had a better career, but I'm also not sure UConn would have been better in Craig's 4 years there had Vital come into that spot.  But that's not a knock on Vital.  Craig started down the stretch on a team that went to the Final Four.  And was good enough to allow JC to keep freshman Kemba on the bench.  That's not a small thing.
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