Quote Originally Posted by Alan Bykowski, "brewcity77" View Post
Using stats like ppg to talk about the value of Garrett when that's exactly part of the problem with Garrett indicates not that you've entered the Twilight Zone, but that you never left. Talking about his free throw percentage as though that has any meaning or significance whatsoever only cements that.

If you want to love Billy Garrett, that's fine. You can look at the "best" player on a terrible team and think that because he shines brighter than the rest of the players around him, he actually is a good player. You can think back to that one layup and phantom foul against Marquette and wonder what might have been if he'd been in Blue and Gold. You can look at ppg in the vacuum of ignoring his terrible eFG% and poor offensive efficiency.

Maybe on a better team he would have been a better player. Maybe with better coaching he would have been a better player. But the reality is he wasn't on a better team and he didn't have better coaching and thus is not a better player. Quite simply, he went to DePaul. The teams he has been on have been terrible and his style of play and ball dominance has been a big part of why they have been terrible. Him continuing to dominate the ball despite being one of the worst shooters on a team that shoots poorly on the whole is a massive problem. You can blame that on the coaching staff, you can blame that on JLP, you can blame that on his father, or you can blame that on Garrett himself, but the reality is the way he plays makes DePaul a worse team and he is a living embodiment of why DePaul was bad under Purnell and hasn't got better under Leitao.
So you think DePaul will be a much better team next year?