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[QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 1096583, member: 2932"]
Yea, sorry, I had misunderstood what you meant by the 2010 team in this context.

But I also think this year is much more of a question mark than '09-10.

Coming into the '09 season, SU had three players who had averaged double digits in a college basketball season - Wes Johnson, Arinze Onuaku, and Andy Rautins.  This year, SU has one: Trevor Cooney.   Rick Jackson had also averaged 8 and 6 as a sophomore, so I think you'd have to say he was more of an established player going into that season than Rak is today.  Even Scoop had played a lot more as a freshman (including starting 10 games) than Gbinje did last year, although he had missed the entire season before '09-10 due to injury.  On Wes, I agree no one was fully sure what he was capable of, but wouldn't you agree we were more confident of him than any player on this year's roster?  We had a year of glowing practice reports and, unlike the usual freshman, he had already proven he could do it while at ISU.

Going into the '09-10 season, the top 5 guys looked to be: Scoop, Rautins, Wes, Jackson, Arinze.  Four out of five of them had already put up starter-level numbers in at least one season (10 or more points for Rautins, Wes, and Arinze, the 8 and 6 for Jackson [numbers I think we'd all be happy with from Rak this year]).  The other was, as you point out, coming off an injury, but had started a third of the season the year before.

Going into this season, the top 5 guys look to be: Joseph, Cooney, Roberson, McCulloch, Rak.  Two of them have put up starter-level numbers, and that's being generous to Rak.  (And this doesn't change of course if you sub in G for one of the guys.)

That '09-10 definitely surprised on the upside. But it was an experienced team with a lot of guys who had already proven their mettle.
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