ACC bball player losses

by PACKHOOLIGAN on Mar 23, 2010 9:21 PM EDT

I decided to see what players ACC teams were losing to graduation and possible draft prospects. Numbers are from KenPom.

School	Player	%min	O Rtg
Duke	Jon Scheyer	91.5	125.6
	Brian Zoubek	44.8	119.8
	Lance Thomas	62.2	100.4
Maryland	Greivis Vasquez	83.9	110.5
	Landon Milbourne	73.3	107.9
	Eric Hayes	76	125.2
Florida State	Solomon Alabi (So)	63.8	110.1
Virginia Tech	Lewis Witcher	16.6	79.5
Wake Forest	Ish Smith	89.8	95
	L.D. Williams	74.2	101.8
	Chas McFarland	60	92.7
	David Weaver	31.7	101.5
	Al-Farouq Aminu (So)	76.4	101.4
Clemson	Trevor Booker	76.9	111.5
Clemson	David Potter	59.8	96.4
Georgia Tech	D'Andre Bell	54.6	96.6
	Zachary Peacock	54.5	106.3
	Gani Lawal (Jr)	64.4	102.1
	Derrick Favors (Fr)	68.4	108.1
Boston College	Tyler Roche	44.7	124.4
Virginia	Calvin Baker	32.6	85.7
	Jerome Meyinsse	55.2	124.4
	Sylvan Landesberg (So)	69.4	104.4
UNC	Deon Thompson	66.1	106.6
	Marcus Ginyard	66.8	98.9
	Ed Davis (So)	47.3	111.8
NC State	Dennis Horner	69.6	109.9
NC State	Farnold Degand	46.7	93.7
Miami	Dwayne Collins	54.2	105.9
	James Dews	73	109.5
	Adrian Thomas	55	122.2
	Cyrus McGowan	31.2	97.4

I thought Malcolm Delaney and Jeff Allen were seniors, but both are listed as Juniors. VT should have a strong year next year. Wake and Maryland both suffer huge losses next year. Duke might take a slight step back next year, but I think the Plumlee's can replace Zoubek and Thomas, while adding Curry to the incoming and current players will help make up for the loss of Scheyer. GT is going to go from a post dominated offense to a guard dominated offense. FSU doesn't lose anyone to eligibility, they will be strong again next year. How does Clemson replace Booker?

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Excellent rundown, hooligan, thanks.

You’re right about Virginia Tech. Florida State is also in great shape if Alabi decides against the draft.

Duke is going to miss Zoubek (Treebeard!) more than anyone would ever have guessed.

Backing The Pack

by Akula Wolf on Mar 23, 2010 11:44 PM EDT reply actions

I was too impatient to figure out

how to make a better table.

I think if anything, this year has taught us all about the power of beards.

by PACKHOOLIGAN on Mar 24, 2010 8:21 AM EDT reply actions

Another thing that struck me

when I was going through the rosters, is the utter lack of NBA talent in the ACC.

by PACKHOOLIGAN on Mar 24, 2010 8:22 AM EDT reply actions

You make the incorrect assumption

that GT has an offense. I can’t believe that VT doesn’t lose anyone off that team. Maybe Greenberg will feel confident enough to schedule some decent OOC opponents with all that experience. I think Duke will be the team to beat if Curry is able to assimilate himself into the offense. Will he be able to play Duke level defense? Miami loses a lot from an already terrible team, yikes.

by mplode on Mar 24, 2010 5:54 PM EDT reply actions

I thought about putting offense in quotes

Hewitt could be on his way to St. Johns. My GT friends are saying there are some rumblings for Mark Price to coach. How can you go wrong hiring a beloved former pg with no college coaching experience? (although he does have high school head coaching experience!)

mplode, is wake bringing in anyone good? I bet some of the people there are happy to see LD and Chas go.

by PACKHOOLIGAN on Mar 24, 2010 6:14 PM EDT up reply actions

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I don’t see Mark Price being the next hire. Dan Radakovich is way too smart to pull in someone with no experience who’s in way over their head (e.g. Hewitt). Next hire will probably be a successful midmajor coach.

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by BirdGT on Apr 29, 2010 9:46 AM EDT up reply actions