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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 298840, member: 40"]
Shot frequency by minutes played is going to be a bit misleading because we played 10 guys and lots of different lineup combinations. Triche was the starting 2G on a team that was completely perimeter focused; his job was to shoot. Interestingly, there were plenty of posters who felt like he didn't shoot ENOUGH, and expressed that opinion consistently. [not to be outdone, we also had posters who also felt the same way about Dion. And Scoop. Go figure. :)]
 
Also need to consider that we had a lot of scoring options on the floor at any time last year. But experienced veterans like Joseph and Scoop aren't on next year's team, neither is Waiters. So, Triche will be relied upon to be one of the main scorers--and possibly to have offensive half court sets run THROUGH him. He'll either step up and average 13-17 while challenging for all conference honors, or he'll shoot a poor percentage. But he's going to be given every opportunity as a senior / four year starter to be one of the anchors of our offense.
 
I'm not interested in debating those who don't believe that Brandon has the chops to be a primary scorer--they could be right, and I certaily could be wrong--time will tell. But this feels qualitatively like the same type of debate we frequently have about players who've been complimentary role players ascending into bigger roles and being able to shoulder a bigger workload of responsibilities. DNic...Andy...Scoop...and now Brandon. The vast majority of those situations resulted in the player stepping up and getting the job done as seniors--I'm predicting that Triche will follow a similar pattern.
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