Oh Jeff Goodman, how responsive you are?

I had to update this and give Jeff credit...he responded to my email and was very nice and explained his views to me regarding Paulus. I still don't agree with him and wish he would have said more of what he said in his article, but I'm not going to bash him in this post anymore.


Jeff Goodman recently wrote an article on the top college point guards in the nation. Much to my dissatisfaction, Greg Paulus of Duke was ranked 15th while Grevious Vasquez of Maryland was ranked 26th and Eric Hayes was unranked. Both of the latter had much better assist-to-turnover rations. I've copied my email rant to Mr. Goodman below for all of you to get a laugh.


Subject: Why is Greg Paulus ranked so high?

Seriously, he's not a good point guard! He'd be a much better shooting guard, I'd agree with that. Assists per game mean nothing when compared to assist to turnover ratio! You could average 10 assists per game yet if you turn the ball over 20 times, who cares?!?

Paulus had 124 assists last year and 101 turnovers! a 1.23 assist to turnover ratio is not good!

Compare his stats to Vasquez of Maryland, 1.71 assist-to-turnover ratio, averaged 9.8 pts and 3.3 rebounds / game or Eric Hayes who averaged a 1.83 assist-to-turnover ratio.

You say Paulus's assists need to go up this year, as he averaged 11.8 pts. and 3.8 assists. SMART GUY, Vasquez averaged almost as many points and did a WAY better job then Paulus! Why have someone ranked 11 spots below him who was statically better then him in most categories, doing all of this as a FRESHMAN, and without starting part of the season.

Oh, and check the final records for Duke and Maryland last season....not how Maryland finished 10-6 in the ACC and Duke was 8-8 and lost to Maryland twice.