Re: Preseason NCAA Basketball Poll is released
I'd like to somewhat chime in on the whole 'best PG in the nation argument'... Flynn & Lawson to me are very similar players. Both play at high speeds with unnatural efficiency. Lawson turns it over less and has a higher shooting percentage, but Flynn plays with lesser (still good) talent around him than Lawson does, so I'm sure that contributes somewhat to the lesser percentages--Flynn is asked to do a little bit more, seeing as he doesn't have a former POY playing alongside him.
The thing that I see with Flynn is that he is getting better at a shocking rate compared to not only Ty Lawson, but everybody else in the country right now. It may have some relation to Lawson's injury in the latter part of the season, but Jonny Flynn just gets better faster than other players. At the beginning of the year, nobody thought that Flynn was on par with the elite PGs in the country, but now he's being considered as one of the 2 or 3 best--hands down. Jonny Flynn will be the best PG in the nation next year, and it won't really be all that close. If you look at how quickly he has improved from when he stepped on SUs campus to now, it's amazing how much better he's gotten.
As far as the other PGs mentioned, Lucas is a great player--he is vastly underrated and gets less love because he's in a lousy conference. Fields I hate, but you have to hand it to him, he wins. That's all he does. Numbers be damned, Fields just wins games, and does what he needs to do when he needs to do it. Collison is a major player, and the only reason we're not talking about him nearly as much as a national great PG is because UCLA took such a huge dip down this year. If all those freshman and sophmores on UCLA were sophmores and juniors, they could have easily made it 4 Final Fours in a row. Collins amazes me every time I see him--He's got an amazing basketball IQ--Something very difficult to come by.
Finally, I offer up Grevies Vasquez. He's got the size, the talent, and the instincts to become a phenomenal NBA player. That MD team this year was about the worst talent wise that Gary Williams has had in maybe 15 years. Vasquez literally took that team on his back to beat UNC, Michigan State, and Wake and eventually earn a spot in the NCAA tournament. There's something about Vasquez that only he possesses. It's somewhere between greatness and craziness, but it's good, and it's going to make him a superstar on the next level. Vasquez is overlooked a lot when it comes to the 'greatest PG in the nation' debate, but he really is on that top tier. Much like Collison though, he's overlooked because of a lack of surrounding talent that makes it harder for him to shine.
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