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[QUOTE="Forza Azzurri, post: 2967900, member: 1452"]
It really shouldn't shock you.

Out of the extensive list of JB point guards that I posted earlier, how many came in ready to be elite point guards at the college level?

I can think of 2.  Pearl and Ennis.  Maybe Sherm even though he had Pearl in front of him.  Maybe Autry.  Autry was post college and pre-every game on ESPN so I rarely got to see him play.

Most did not have to come and and start as Freshmen and had the luxury of learning in practice, early OOC games against easy competition before finding a seat on the bench for the Bgi East regular seasons.  Hart was brutal as a freshman.  Z was awful until his senior year.

How many came in and replaced entrenched senior starters?  One.  Pearl.  He replaced Gene Waldron as the PG when Waldron was a senior.

Pearl - Only arguably the greatest player in SU history outside of Dave Bing and Carmelo.

So, it should not be a surprise at all that an incoming freshman point guard would not be able to supplant a senior starting point guard.  That incoming frosh would have to be really special...like Pearl.
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