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Message: [QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 1100333, member: 2932"] Separate from the annual strum und drang about the bench, I do think these numbers should temper some expectations about Roberson this year. My sense is people are expecting him to be the next in the line of very good forwards who, particularly in recent years, have tended to have breakout seasons as sophomores. But below are the freshman lines for the three guys I think people are looking to as career models (Joseph, Fair, Grant), as well as Roberson's. Roberson obviously played a lot fewer minutes than these guys. But he also shot under 30% - Joseph, who probably had the worst freshman year of the other three, shot 43%. (Even Terrance Roberts shot 36% as a freshman, in similar minutes to Roberson.) More subjectively, at least in my view, all of the other three had games when they looked like big time players as freshmen. Roberson had a few moments, I suppose, and is clearly a good athlete and rebounder. But I think those expecting him this year to be what Grant (let alone Fair) was last year on the offensive end are setting themselves up for disappointment. I think more realistic is that he averages 8-10 points, rebounds very well, and develops into a big scorer as a junior. (That obviously raises the question of who is actually going to score next year, and I kind of think that's a good question.) Kris Joseph: easonClPosGGSMinFGFGA%FTFTA%3Pt3PA%AsstRebDRebORebFlsDQTOSTBSPtsPPGAPGRPG [B][URL='http://www.orangehoops.org/2008-2009.htm']2008-09[/URL][/B]FrF34245844103 42.7% 2152 40.4% 726 26.9% 1781542735027308116[B]3.40.52.4[/B] CJ Fair SeasonClPosGGSMinFGFGA%FTFTA%3Pt3PA%AsstRebDRebORebFlsDQTOSTBSPtsPPGAPGRPG [B][URL='http://www.orangehoops.org/2010-2011.htm']2010-11[/URL][/B]FrF32059682151 54.3% 3964 60.9% 13 33.3% 131227250390272625204[B]6.40.43.8[/B] Jerami Grant SeasonClPosGGSMinFGFGA%FTFTA%3Pt3PA%AsstRebDRebORebFlsDQTOSTBSPtsPPGAPGRPG [B][URL='http://www.orangehoops.org/2012-2013.htm']2012-13[/URL][/B]FrF40957254117 46.2% 4173 56.2% 615 40.0% 181187246541261717155[B]3.90.53.0[/B] Tyler Roberson Season ConfGMPFGFGAFG%2P2PA2P%3P3PA3P%FTFTAFT%ORBDRBTRBASTSTLBLKTOVPFPTS [URL='http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/seasons/2014.html']2013-14[/URL][URL='http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/syracuse/2014.html']Syracuse[/URL][URL='http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/conferences/acc/2014.html']ACC[/URL]201621447.2981442.33305.0001522.68214243854471743 [/QUOTE]

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