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Message: [QUOTE="billsin01, post: 5065442, member: 837"] Not disagreeing entirely here but I’m not sure I agree entirely with the way you broke down the players. You have Bell as ‘inconsistent’ and while this is certainly true of his offense due to his heavy reliance on the three, there aren’t going to be many shooters who don’t have some variability in their game. After a December/early January stretch where he got squeezed on minutes, he score 13/game in our last 18 games. Once he started getting closer to 30+ minutes a game, he averaged 15.7 (our last 10 games). Now, does he do well enough in other aspects of the game to feel good about playing him 30+ mpg, I’m not sure. But he can put the ball in the basket pretty consistently. Starling’s injury history is very different from Westry’s. Starling is coming off a year where he averaged double-figures and played 1100 minutes. Do I feel excited about him being a go-to guy on either end of the floor? Not exactly, but I’m confident he’ll be available and capable of playing at this level. Westry after two lost seasons with almost no track record at this level? That makes me very nervous. I don’t doubt his talent but I find it hard to believe we can bank on any genuine level of production. His simply being on the floor some would be a pretty big victory. Freeman being ‘too young’ isn’t the relevant question to me. It’s can he play. We’ve had veteran guys who’ve struggled and freshmen who’ve been very good — Brown, Guerrier, Brissett, Kadary. The question isn’t his age, it’s just whether or not he’ll live up to the hype. Lastly, Carlos and Davis are question marks at this level but I think the bigger point is simply that it’s hard to imagine us banking on them as leading scorers. If they’re just asked to contribute, it’s all good. As central parts of our offense? Then it gets dicey. [/QUOTE]

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