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We have plenty of guys who can score. Guys like Mo D or Aberdeen may avg like 7/8/9 pts a game with a handful of big time 15-20 pt games but Lowe and Oweh are proven and will be 15 a game ish. I’d say JQ will at least give us 10-11. Easily. Then any of Kam. Jasper and Jelevic could be the 4th double digit scorer. I mean Kam may be a 13 pt wing or Jelevic could be a 12 pt a game scorer and alll around stud. Idk we’ll see but we’ll have 4 or 5 in double figures.
 
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This is Bart's guess....
Otega Oweh: 18 points per game
Jaland Lowe: 14 points per game
Denzel Aberdeen: 9.7 points per game
Jayden Quaintance: 9 points per game
Jasper Johnson: 8.3 points per game

What that says is none of our offensive minded bigs besides Q are in the conversation. I think the likelihood of either Mo, Europe J, or Garrison reaching 9 points a game is high. And I think we have at least 5 in double figures.
 
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ala_kat2 said:
Trent Noah is going to work his way into the top five scorers
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This is what I was thinking. If his outside shooting lives up to the summer hype from his teammates, which it already did in spurts last season, he could even be top three. Just because this team has so many other weapons you can’t afford to put a whole lot of focus on one babyfaced kid roaming the perimeter.
 
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I feel like Noah slots in somewhere just shy of 8 pts a game on the year when it is all said and done. Filling the Almanor role in a sense (5.3 ppg 1.3 rpg). They'll be games where he is a sniper and they'll be games where he simply isn't needed or useful based on personnel matchups. That's why I like the flexibility of "different" types of talent this team has. We have the ability to grab a guy off the bench that is a better matchup against the guy they are guarding than maybe say our traditional starter/backup would be. Combined with some guys athletic enough to guard multiple positions and some serious wing spans. I think that both helps and hurts Noah depending on who we are playing.
 
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I think we'll see an even more balanced offensive attack than last year. Oweh will probably score less per game than he did a year ago and everybody will eat. I could see 4 low double-digit scorers and a lot of high single-digit scorers.
 
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WallMash said:
This is Bart's guess....
Otega Oweh: 18 points per game
Jaland Lowe: 14 points per game
Denzel Aberdeen: 9.7 points per game
Jayden Quaintance: 9 points per game
Jasper Johnson: 8.3 points per game

What that says is none of our offensive minded bigs besides Q are in the conversation. I think the likelihood of either Mo, Europe J, or Garrison reaching 9 points a game is high. And I think we have at least 5 in double figures.
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What kind of scoring can be expected from Williams and Dioubate ??
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Oweh leading scorer
Lowe 2nd
Kam Williams will average over 10
Mo will average over 10
JQ after getting healthy will average over 10
Garrison COULD average over 10 if he makes the jump I expect. If not, 8/9 per game.

Will be several in the 10-15 per game area with Oweh around 17/18. I think 5 players will average at least 10 or more, maybe 6. Last year was about the same. Balanced scoring, average 85 or so per game as a team.
 
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I think Oweh and Lowe will be our top 2 scorers and wouldn't be surprised if Lowe is #1 due to more playing time.

After that I think we will be extremely balanced in both scoring and PT. Man, without injuries to key players we'll be fun to watch and in the hunt for #9.
 
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A lot of you need to reel in your estimates, if you look at the whole roster, you may be having us score 100+ppg.

Last year we averaged 84.4 under Pope. Let's be optimistic & say we increase that to 90.
We have a lot of guys who potentially may contribute. Would any of us be shocked if Oweh or Lowe was 15+, if Quaintance or Johnson or Dioubate or Williams were 10+, if Chandler or Garrison or Jelavic were 8+, if Noah or Hawthorn or Moreno were 5+. ALL of those can't happen (that would be 109+)!

I think we'll have 3 average double digits, but wouldn't be surprised if it was just 2 (averaging double digits) with 5-7 others in the 7-9.9 range.

Some guys who you might be surprised didn't average double-digits in a season, but were quite important to their teams include:
23-24: Wagner (9.9) & Edwards (8.8)
21-22: Mintz (8.5)
20-21: Jackson (8.4)
18-19: Hagans (7.7)
17-18: Green (9.4) & Gabriel (6.8) & Vanderbilt (5.9)
16-17: Willis (7.0)
15-16: Briscoe (9.6), Willis (7.7)
14-15: Booker (9.9), Andrew H (9.3), WCS (8.9), Lyles (8.7), Johnson (6.4), Ulis (5.9) ** only 2 guys on that team averaged double digits (11 & 10.3)

That last team is the one to look to, not because I think Pope will platoon (he won't), but because I do think he will play at least 9, probably 10, maybe 11, possibly even 12 guys significant minutes. 11 or 12 might be hard to do. But I think only 2-3 guys will play over 24 mpg.
Lastly, I'm not sold on our 3pt shooting, I don't think we will be a hugely efficient team on offense, but I do think we will be much improved on defense,
 
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JonathanW2 said:
A lot of you need to reel in your estimates, if you look at the whole roster, you may be having us score 100+ppg.

Last year we averaged 84.4 under Pope. Let's be optimistic & say we increase that to 90.
We have a lot of guys who potentially may contribute. Would any of us be shocked if Oweh or Lowe was 15+, if Quaintance or Johnson or Dioubate or Williams were 10+, if Chandler or Garrison or Jelavic were 8+, if Noah or Hawthorn or Moreno were 5+. ALL of those can't happen (that would be 109+)!

I think we'll have 3 average double digits, but wouldn't be surprised if it was just 2 (averaging double digits) with 5-7 others in the 7-9.9 range.

Some guys who you might be surprised didn't average double-digits in a season, but were quite important to their teams include:
23-24: Wagner (9.9) & Edwards (8.8)
21-22: Mintz (8.5)
20-21: Jackson (8.4)
18-19: Hagans (7.7)
17-18: Green (9.4) & Gabriel (6.8) & Vanderbilt (5.9)
16-17: Willis (7.0)
15-16: Briscoe (9.6), Willis (7.7)
14-15: Booker (9.9), Andrew H (9.3), WCS (8.9), Lyles (8.7), Johnson (6.4), Ulis (5.9) ** only 2 guys on that team averaged double digits (11 & 10.3)

That last team is the one to look to, not because I think Pope will platoon (he won't), but because I do think he will play at least 9, probably 10, maybe 11, possibly even 12 guys significant minutes. 11 or 12 might be hard to do. But I think only 2-3 guys will play over 24 mpg.
Lastly, I'm not sold on our 3pt shooting, I don't think we will be a hugely efficient team on offense, but I do think we will be much improved on defense,
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Disagree. NO way only 2 average 10 or more.
2024-25 :
Oweh - 16.2 ppg.
Robinson - 13 ppg.
Brea - 11.6 ppg.
Butler - 11.4 ppg.
Amari - 10.9 ppg.
Carr - 10.3 ppg.

That is 6 players averaging 10 or more. I do not expect this year to be any different. Nobody scores their average every game, some games they will score more, some less. The nights a player scores less than their average, it means someone will score more than they average. I would bet any amount of $$ you want, more than 3 people as you stated as the most, average DD's per game.
 
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true-blue1 said:
Any word on Hawthorne? Is he going to redshirt?
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In his interview with Pope, Matt Norlander referred to Hawthorne as a redshirt and Pope didn't correct him. That's not definitive but I would be surprised if he did not redshirt.

Torvik got the identity of the top 2 scorers correct. Other than that --> False, Bart.

My prediction:

Oweh 17.5
Lowe 12.5
Garrison 9.5
Chandler 9
Jelavic 8.5

I think Oweh and Lowe will consistently score in bunches and everyone else will be more feast or famine.
 
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ala_kat2 said:
Trent Noah is going to work his way into the top five scorers
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Man. I hope you’re right. He has size and a helluva shooter but will he prove to be more than a spot up shooter ? If that’s what he is off the bench I’m good with it. He could come in. Make a couple big 3’s. Have a couple games where he plays outta his mind ya know.
 
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Catsfan2025 said:
Oweh leading scorer
Lowe 2nd
Kam Williams will average over 10
Mo will average over 10
JQ after getting healthy will average over 10
Garrison COULD average over 10 if he makes the jump I expect. If not, 8/9 per game.

Will be several in the 10-15 per game area with Oweh around 17/18. I think 5 players will average at least 10 or more, maybe 6. Last year was about the same. Balanced scoring, average 85 or so per game as a team
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if BG makes that jwe’ll be special. If he steps up and becomes consistent every night he. JQ. Jelevic. Mo D and MM will be a top tier frontcourt.
 
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