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(06-05-2019 09:20 AM)jarr Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 08:59 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(06-04-2019 05:37 PM)levydl Wrote:  Both WKU and New Mexico are credible basketball schools. If McNeal is merely a veteran complementary player who can take over the ballhandling duties for Cumberland for 10-15 minutes a game, that should be just fine. He and the big guy, Sorolla, were exactly what this team needed--5th year guys to fill critical holes--and about the best that we could have hoped for with the way Brannen came in. Adding Jaevin Cumberland was a massive coup.

I'm not convinced Jaevin starts over McNeal. Sure, Jaevin might be an above-average starter. But he might also be a 10-minute/game backup.

After seeing how Cane Broome's 23 pts/3 assists/5 rebounds a game as a sophomore translated to UC, I'm not convinced by Jaevin's 17 pts/3.5 assists/3 rebounds game as a junior. Also Broome was a star within his first month, and Jaevin barely played until his Jr year.

McNeal, on the other hand, is a proven commodity on offense. He scored 9.5 pts/game as a sophomore, and 6.5 pts/game against NCAA tourney teams. That's about the same as Broome's senior year at UC (Broome was 7.5 against NCAA teams with 29 % 3 pt shooting). My main questions about McNeal are his defense and how much he's grown.

I don't think Broome and Cumberland are apples to apples. Jaevin played in a much more competitive conference on a better team, and had much better percentages. I have seen him play and do believe his skills will translate. He will likely have some issuesnon defense, and does not have the handles that Jarron has, but I believe he could be our best shooter on the team. My comparison would be Field Williams.

I never saw Field Williams play but looking him up on sports reference, he had almost identical shot percentages to Jaevin's at Oakland - 40% from trey and 85%-86% from the charity stripe. The 11.9ppg his senior year is right about where i'd put Jaevin too. Not sure how much we can expect Jaevin to handle the ball but both player's A/T ratio is 2:1. Pretty solid comparison strictly looking at numbers.