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[QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 1820104"]
What's Gillon better at?  The stats are tough to compare, given the disparity in their roles last season, but Gillon doesn't look to be any better of a distributor than Frank (I'd argue Frank is more naturally gifted in this regard).  I think Gillon has the ballhandling edge, but it's not drastic.  Maybe he's a better ballhandler than I've seen in the highlights, but he's no ankle-breaker, and Howard handled the ball well against pressure last season in his limited run (He was a Freshman after all).  Defense is tricky to project because we don't know what Gillon will do in the zone.  Howard wasn't good on D last year, which cost him PT along with his shooting, but I'm inclined to take the known quantity with the 6'5" guy over the unknown 6'2" guy in our zone.

I like both players.  It just seems like Howard's talent gets undercut here a little too often and Gillon get pumped up too much.  He's a short-ish guard who played very well at a mid-major.  That certainly doesn't mean his stats aren't insightful (if you can shoot, you can shoot), but I think we need to temper our expectations a little bit.
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