Dansen wrote:
DJ Balentine, Milik Yarbrough, Tyreke Key, Milton Doyle to an extent, Anthony Beane, and Reed Timmer all come to mind as fitting your outliers description. But I digress, not trying to get too nitpicky. I do like your blog
No worries, I appreciate the discussion.
-Balentine is an interesting case as his stats were certainly outliers. But he also played on a team whose offense was completely built around him and he lost to Fred Van Vleet who is now playing in the NBA.
-Milik Yarbrough averaged just over 16 and just under 7 his senior year, not terribly far ahead of Townes 15 and 5. Had a little more distance between him and Custer the year earlier for sure.
-Tyreke Key at 17 and 3.5 his sophomore year (which is the one I assume you were talking about) was not that far off from Townes either. Last year he wasn't in the ballpark of AJ Green.
-Doyle's 15 and 5 to Lee's 13 and 4. Doyle's team was also 9 games worse than Lee's.
-Anthony Beane certainly had much better stats than Van Vleet in 2016. He has to be statistically one of the worst POY.
-Reed Timmer was an outstanding player but the teams he played for were terrible.
You make some excellent points. At the time I wrote that Mosley was second in the NATION in scoring and a full 8 points better than Krutwig, while also leading him in rebounding and assists. The Drake guys' stats were even further off. The only people who compare to those caliber of differences were Beane and Balentine, and neither of them were second in the country in scoring. Moot point by now as Mosley has come back down to Earth a bit anyway. But that was my rationale.