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Message: [QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 1767272"] Hopefully, this makes conceptual sense. This is my thinking: A lot of us are comparing next season's team directly to the guys they need to replace from this past season's team. I think a few different factors are clouding judgment in that regard, so I'm going to compare each one to an older player at the same experience level to see what we get. These are primarily comparisons of offense because I think the D will be improved, or at least equally as good. Here it goes. Tyus Battle - Freshman Jonny Flynn: Flynn went for 16 and 5 as a Freshman with solid scoring efficiency and great playmaking. Though Battle will play mostly SG and the sizes obviously don't compare well, I don't see why/how he wouldn't be able to put up similar numbers, with some more rebounds substituted for a couple assists. I haven't looked at recruiting rankings that closely, but Battle has to be the higher ranked recruit and his highlight tapes show similar playmaking that I remember seeing from Flynn, just with more size and less flash. Frank Howard - RS Sophomore Scoop Jardine: Again, I think the recruiting rankings - however imperfect they are - favor the new guy here. Scoop put up 9 and 4, which I think is more than attainable for a guard looking at probably 25-ish mpg. Scoop was really efficient from the field, which I don't think Howard will match, but I think he'll be a far cry from the percentages we saw during his Freshman campaign. Howard will rack up some serious assists numbers while putting up a few less points than Scoop did, imo. John Gillon - Sophomore Allen Griffin: 8 and 3. Harder to place because I don't remember a transfer at guard like this and we haven't had many mighty mouses over the years. Griffin had an uncharacteristic year from 3-point range as a Sophmore that Gillon should match. Gillon gets discounted in experience because of where he played before and the fact he's a transfer. Tyler Lydon - Junior Kris Joseph: Lydon's talent level gets him a bump in terms of the experience level comparison. 14 and 5 on really good shooting. This comparison would actually represent a minor scoring increase and rebounding decrease from what Lydon already just gave us, not to mention the efficiency difference, so he could beat this... perhaps by a lot. Paschal Chukwu - Sophomore Darryl Watkins: The age doesn't really matter; Watkins didn't change much between his 2nd and 4th seasons here on a per minute basis. This would give Chukwu something like 6 ppg, 6 rbg, and 2.2 bpg. Moyer - I don't know. Suggestions? We know what we're getting with Roberson and Coleman pretty much. Long read, I know. Sorry about that. So, if you had these two teams going against each other, who is your money on? G - FR Jonny Flynn G - RS SR Gbinije G - RS SO Scoop G - RS SR Cooney - JR Kris Joseph - FR Malachi - SR Roberson - JR Roberson C - RS SR Coleman C - RS JR Coleman 6 - SO Allen Griffin 6 - FR Tyler Lydon 7 - SO-JR Watkins 7 - FR Howard 8 - FR Moyer [/QUOTE]

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