Why this BYU team is so bad

[MikeWaters]

the way to understand this is to perhaps consider why a prior team was so good.

Let's look at the 2010-2011 team (Jimmer's senior season).

Highly underrated is Noah Hartsock. Hartsock's career records:
#13 FG percentage
#11 FT percentage
#8 offensive rebounds
#2 blocks
#3 blocks per game

Charles Abouo:
#11 offensive rebounds
#19 steals

Jackson Emery:
#3 3-point FG attempts
#3 3-point FGs
#7 3-point FG/game
#14 assists
#1 steals
#1 steals/game

And then to that you add two players who are playing in the NBA: Jimmer and Brandon Davies. Davies during his career was ranked #5 in total blocks and #8 in blocks per game and #8 in total steals.

So you had dual rim protection in two of the best rim protectors in BYU history: Davies and Hartsock. You had the best guard defender in BYU history in Jackson Emery. And then you had one of the best athletic defenders in BYU history in Charles Abouo who could guard multiple positions.

The current starters: Eric Mika, Nate Austin, Kyle Collinsworth, Matt Carlino, and Tyler Haws.

Where's the defense? Where's the rim protection? Mika has 12 blocks, the same as Collinsworth. Nate Austin leads the team with 15 blocks. Carlino has 1.9 steals per game, which is the same rate as Emery over his career. But we know that Carlino's steals often come at the expense of reckless gambling.

The point is this: the talent dropoff between the Jimmer senior team and this BYU team is HUGE. The only person that might sniff the NBA on this team is Mika. There is no GLUE on this BYU team.