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Who is the most dominant college freshman that you've seen in the past decade?
Carmelo averaged 22 and 10 and led his team to a national title. Tyler Hansbrough averaged 19 and 8 and was a first team all-american. John Wall averaged 16.6, 4.3, 6.5, and 2.1 and most nights was easily the most talented player on a very talented team. Greg Oden averaged 15.7 ppg, 9.8 rpg, and 3.3 bpg. Beasley was at 26 and 12. Durant was 26, 12, and 2 steals/2 blocks.
Got wondering about this while reading up more on Harrison Barnes. The kid just seems to good to be true, and so I'm not quite sure what to expect out of him this season. UNC is going to someone to be a big scorer, so he should be able to really put up numbers in their fast pace system. He's had several people that have followed him say he's got Carmelo's game and Kobe's focus and drive. He's been called the best perimeter guy to come out of high school since LeBron. Roy Williams said that after they had UNC Late Night "Barnes took care of his obligations with family and teammates, and then was back in the gym putting up shots for an hour."
CBS pegged him as their preseason POTY, and said possibly the only drawback with Barnes is that he is so mature and so focused that he might be better suited to playing with NBA guys right now than college teammates. I don't see how anyone can live up to the hype he's been getting. But he's seemingly got all the physical tools, he's got a mature offensive game, and he's very driven. I'm very intrigued to see what he ends up doing.
Carmelo averaged 22 and 10 and led his team to a national title. Tyler Hansbrough averaged 19 and 8 and was a first team all-american. John Wall averaged 16.6, 4.3, 6.5, and 2.1 and most nights was easily the most talented player on a very talented team. Greg Oden averaged 15.7 ppg, 9.8 rpg, and 3.3 bpg. Beasley was at 26 and 12. Durant was 26, 12, and 2 steals/2 blocks.
Got wondering about this while reading up more on Harrison Barnes. The kid just seems to good to be true, and so I'm not quite sure what to expect out of him this season. UNC is going to someone to be a big scorer, so he should be able to really put up numbers in their fast pace system. He's had several people that have followed him say he's got Carmelo's game and Kobe's focus and drive. He's been called the best perimeter guy to come out of high school since LeBron. Roy Williams said that after they had UNC Late Night "Barnes took care of his obligations with family and teammates, and then was back in the gym putting up shots for an hour."
CBS pegged him as their preseason POTY, and said possibly the only drawback with Barnes is that he is so mature and so focused that he might be better suited to playing with NBA guys right now than college teammates. I don't see how anyone can live up to the hype he's been getting. But he's seemingly got all the physical tools, he's got a mature offensive game, and he's very driven. I'm very intrigued to see what he ends up doing.
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