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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5392598, member: 722"]
No way to know for sure, but BPM thinks replacing Carlos with Mintz would have meant 5 points per 100 possessions.  But look at how much less efficient Starling was when he has to be a primary ball handler. Look at Bell’s catastrophic drop off year over year.

Maybe, in addition to his own addition, Mintz has a cascading effect, improving both those players.

Adding in the extra 10 free throws per 100 possessions Mintz would add, and the additional foul trouble opposing big men would have been in constantly…. I think you can safely say we win a lot more games. To go from 14 wins to 24 seems like a stretch.

Unless Mintz could keep Freeman and McLeod from breaking their feet? Then the skies the limit!

Given good health Lampkin, McLeod, Freeman, Davis, 23-24 Bell, Starling, Mintz, Carlos/Cuffe seems like a team that could have made the NCAA Tournament.

Then again, I virtually have banners printed for seasons where Onuaku and Fab Melo don’t miss the Tournament, so what do I know?
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