Its time to move up.....

[SFP]

BuAlum03 Exactly! There is a bit of speculation on all of our predictions in what ifs!

 

[leebiddlecome]

What Lee is saying is that you may add warren's 16 or 18 or 22 points a game, maybe 5 boards, 1.5 steals, 3 assists (just guessing at #s here). But you have to subtract the contributions of whoever's minutes he took. the net gain would not be that simple. (keep in mind also, that he would have been the focal point of defenses, so simply pointing to last year's #s and saying they would have improved is dubious logic)

He also raises a good point, in that it changes other facets of the game for BU and for Bu's opponents.

I am not going to say we would have won X number of games if we had AW, although i think most would agree that we would have won some games we lost.

What I will argue is that if we had AW, we would have seen SM's #s improve, as he would not have been who defenses key'd on. SM gets more open looks, defenses are spread out more. TW gets more lanes. Even DC might have had less turnovers, as that's one less defender to step in and swat at the ball.

As for WE, i think he would have helped, and probably more so as the year went on. We can speculate, but we don't know for a fact what could have been. Next year we will find out more.

Thanks BUAlum. You summed up my points much better than I did.

 

[Braves4Life]

Bradley will probably be picked about 4th again next year in the preseason poll. There is no other reason for anyone (anyone who is objective) to pick BU any higher really.

I agree lee:

1) UNI
2) CU
3) ISU
4) BU

And if BU surprises like they did this year (exceeding everyone's expectations after losing 4 starters from the previous year - Warren, Ruffin, Salley, & Crouch) then I think we stand a pretty darned good chance to win the whole d@mn thing!

 

[BuAlum03]

I think UNI will be a consensus #1. I don't think it will be clear-cut for #2. Creighton probably gets it, but they do lose a lot. POY and their very good PG.

ISU may get #3, but I think we might sneak in there. they lose champ and sampay. champ was fantastic, imo their best player. Sampay was very solid off the bench (wish we had gotten him).

I think WSU and SIU will both be very good next year.

Regardless of where people are picked to start the season, I care more about where we finish it, and I think BU has a legit chance to finish with the regular season and/or tourney title.