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[QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 2834664, member: 1674"]
Of the guys you mentioned:

Joseph: Improving from freshman year to sophomore year is kinda my point. Joseph improved (and then basically peaked as a sophomore). Battle got worse and then we expected massive improvement in year 3 for some reason.

Arcidiacono: He was more or less the same player all four years at Villanova with some slight improvements. He happened to play above his usual level in the tournament his senior year.

Hilliard: He showed significant improvement as a sophomore, which gave you hope that he could do the same as a junior, and he did.

Ochefu: He significantly improved every year.

My point is that with Battle in particular, people were projecting massive improvement from him (some in the national media even had him as a contender for the Naismith award this year!) after he showed zero improvement or maybe regression last year. Brissett was a question-mark; you'd obviously hope to see improvement but it's not really rare to see guys flatline either. Howard showed hope of improvement this year, and we'll see if he gets it going as the season goes on, but he's always been an extremely inefficient player.

I don't really see where you'd expect the massive improvements to come from that would propel this team to being among the best in the country, especially when you factor in how poor of a fit this offensive structure is for our players' skillsets.
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