jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:Sanders wasn't a bust. Guy averaged 11.3, 12.9, 11.3, 16.6 in four seasons. 1663 career points, including 1048 at BC, which ranks him #37 on BC's scoring list in only three seasons, slotting him right behind Gerrod Abram and Ryan Sydney (also 3 seasons).
He also averages 5.4 rebounds and 2 assists a game over 4 years, 4.2 and 1.7 at BC.
He was a bad FT shooter, at about 61% a game, which actually hurt his point production significantly, since he took 369 of them over his career.
He wasn't elite by any stretch and this conversation is about elite players due to HJS saying something ridiculous and false.
I will give you the fact that Sanders wasn't a bust but rather a solid piece to the puzzle. I was expecting for him to average 16.6 while at BC and not that total in his last year at fairfield. He was hyped up something terrible
Edit: and to you *** ******* addition. He only learned to play the offensive side of the ball by his last year in our program. So while he may have had elite athleticism when stepping foot on campus, he was far from an elite college baseball player when stepping on campus.
You keep changing the parameters. SW was a top recruit, a 4 star and an elite prospect coming out of HS. You keep shifting the paradigm. He and Sanders were the only elite recruits to come to BC other than maybe Southern.
Parameters were the following from HJS:
"Each and every one [team] had at least one elite player. Of course, some were not recruited as elite, but we pretty much knew immediately that they were special the second they arrived on campus"
I view Williams as a project regarding the game of basketball but a supreme athlete. A better regarded Diallo. (This is ur NBA vs college argument)
I would not say that bell, Dudley, Sanders, Rice or Ryan Sydney count as special/elite players when they stepped onto campus
The only players that I would consider elite when arriving campus would be smith and jackson
I think the point is that within a a game or two of watching them on the court, it was fairly evident that Bell, Smith, Dudley, Rice, and maybe to a slightly lesser extent, Sydney and Jackson, regardless of their recruiting ranking/hype, were going to be excellent players.