commavegarage {l Wrote}:tw could not be more correct. you say our freshman look so good bc theyre the only ones in the acc getting 35 a night. doesnt make them the best. hoops weirdos have such a distorted view of reality. clifford averaged 9/5 last year. hes averaging 5/5 this season. lets calm down about crowning him as a legit acc starter.
and how about lonnie jackson improves his shooting to above 1 out of 3 before we crown him a definite acc role player. if lonnie jackson was on duke hed be getting 5 minutes every other game. and give me a break on heckman.
Rahon and Hanlan are holding their own against upperclassmen starters as freshman. It is entirely possible that many other ACC freshman who are blocked could do the same, but Rahon and Hanlan have and I believe will continue to do so. Plus outside of numbers, watching them play tells me they are good with all-acc not out of the question at some point for either.
Clifford is hurt and his limited minutes hurt his numbers but he looks like a decent contributor when he plays, moreover to add some perspective, his freshman 9 and 5 which you dismiss, is better than Uka Agbai's freshman year 6 and 5 and sophomore year 9 and 4, is better than Nasty Nate ever did in a season even his senior year where he was OK, it is better than any of Oates, Williams or McClains freshman or sophomore years (although they split minutes), and its better than Southern ever averaged. Out of centers from the Skinner era, Williams junior year and Agbai's junior and senior year are the only better performances statistically, unless you want to count Smith as a center.
Jackson is a limited player and is having a bad shooting season, but one which has improved since an awful beginning. I don't know why the people who say he's a bad shooter refuse to look at his .399 2011 season on 143 attempts though. For perspective he had 5 less 3s made than Pierre Jackson from Baylor on the same exact amount of attempts. That is not bad and it did happen.