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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 2647364, member: 837"]
I don't know about how they might compare to 12, let alone 10. Those would both represent massive jumps from what we saw last season. The 10 team was an 81 ppg group whereas we put up 66.6 last season. Huge jump. The 11-12 team point production could be realistic (74 ppg), but they were 13th in offensive rating (we were 240th last season).

I think the bigger point would be that this should be a really, really good defensive team. A healthy center combo with the other four returning should at least put us in the neighborhood of where we were last season, if not better. Add in a capable scorer in Hughes and a potential offensive boost from Carey as well as a healthy Sidibe (please God, let Sidibe be healthy) and improvement from the rest of the group should mean we're at least a 70-72 ppg team. I would have to think that would net us a minimum of around 3 more Ws. Games like Bonaventure, ND, Ga Tech, NC STate and maybe even the Carolina/Wake/FSU OT games (Carolina was regulation, I guess) are all candidates to go our way if we're a bit more efficient offensively. Win three more of those and you finish the regular season at 22-9, which may not seem like a lot but you're safely in the tourney and that's just with modest improvement.

Anyway, trying to bring this back to Braswell -- It's awesome that he's looked good and I'm drooling at the idea of Buddy ripping the nets at 40% from three, but it's hard to imagine those guys cracking the rotation this year in meaningful games.
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