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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 2156571, member: 716"]
It's difficult to compare eras, especially the early-entry era to pretty much the rest of the Boeheim tenure.

One interesting exercise helps put players into context: what would player X do if he were stuck in the position of player Y?

Wes Johnson, nice college player. But would he have made the 1989 team better if he played instead of Billy Owens? Would we beat Butler with Owens instead of Wes? Pretty easy answers to both of these.

This is where I believe McNamara drops away from the pack. Decent numbers, for sure. National championship, awesome. Getting stuck learning a new position for two years and growing to play it mostly well, very cool. But what if we substitute him for Douglas? What if Douglas gets to play with Devendorf, Nichols, Roberts, and Watkins? Heck, what if we sub McNamara for Greg Monroe in 1987? For Moten?

Fact is, any Syracuse guard who gets the green light to shoot 1,131 three-pointers is going to find 35% of them going through the hoop. That's not something special, it's just what happens at a school that has a lot of good players over the years. As a player, he was good. In the context of great Syracuse players, he's out of class.
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